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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Professional Services Firms

Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These metrics provide the foundation for more outcome-oriented engagements, leveraging real-time data to secure contracts, monitor progress, and demonstrate the value of client investments. Which Metrics Are Essential for Professional Services Firms?

Cash Flow

Cash Flow Metrics Resources Sales

Benefits of Small Business Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 26, 2024

Financial Management and Optimization Consultants with financial expertise provide small businesses with valuable insights into budgeting, cash flow management, financial forecasting, and cost optimization.

Small Business

Small Business Consulting Cash Flow Talent

Unlocking Business Profit Potential

Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 12, 2023

Review income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow to identify areas that impact profitability. Consider cross-selling, upselling, and expanding into new markets. Sales and Marketing Optimization : Evaluate your sales and marketing efforts. Ensure these goals align with your long-term financial strategy.

Cash Flow

Cash Flow Balance Sheet Financial Efficiency

Startup Consulting Services in New Ventures

Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 12, 2024

Navigating Initial Challenges Launching a new business comes with a myriad of challenges, including market research, legal compliance, business planning, financial projections, and operational setup. Startup consulting services in new ventures are highly beneficial.

Consulting

Consulting Intellectual Property Cash Flow Operations

Equity Research: Understanding the Role of Stock Analysts

Tom Spencer

APRIL 21, 2023

Understanding Equity Research The role of an equity researcher is to analyze financial data, industry trends, and other information to create detailed reports on specific companies or sectors. This includes analyzing a company’s financial statements, such as its income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.

Research

Research Balance Sheet Cash Flow Analysis

Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Tom Spencer

MAY 25, 2019

There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. If there is a financial crisis, the stock market falls by half and the asset manager’s performance is in line with the stock market, they now make $500 million. Valuation of Asset Management Firms.

Cash Flow

Cash Flow Management Metrics Benchmarking

Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Today, community banks are being consolidated and larger banks are relying more and more on data-driven credit scoring to make small business loans—if they are making them at all. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

Small Business

Small Business Data Cash Flow Banking

We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia. However, such coarse data doesn’t capture how widely practices can vary between individual companies. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm.

Metrics

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Financial

Financial Report Cash Flow Metrics

Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. Its findings deserve much discussion, debate, and attempts at replication.

McKinsey

McKinsey Cash Flow Comparison Methodologies

Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

They argue that the market has become saturated because of the barriers to entry are low (do we really need 53 subscription box companies offering sex products?), Then we project those granular patterns forward as if we had such data in the first place.

Methodologies

Methodologies How To Metrics Sales

A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model.

Financial

Financial Report Company Metrics

Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And yet we have not had the comprehensive data needed to quantify the payoff from managing for the long term — until now. Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well.

Management

Management Metrics Financial Company

Hussman's Open Letter to the Fed; The Problem with Bubbles; Textbook Pre-Crash Bubble; Reflections on Not Chasing Bubbles; Integrity vs. Respect

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Though I don’t believe that markets follow math, it’s striking how closely market action in recent years has followed a “log-periodic bubble” as described by Didier Sornette (see Increasingly Immediate Impulses to Buy the Dip ). I have been prepared to underperform for the fun of being proved right when markets crash.

Cash Flow

Cash Flow Trends Policies Marketing

The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. In the largest study on climate change data and corporations, 8,000 supplier companies (that sell to 75 multinationals) reported on their level of climate risk. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Study

Study Efficiency Productivity Operations

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Professional Services Firms

Benefits of Small Business Consulting

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Unlocking Business Profit Potential

Startup Consulting Services in New Ventures

Equity Research: Understanding the Role of Stock Analysts

Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Hussman's Open Letter to the Fed; The Problem with Bubbles; Textbook Pre-Crash Bubble; Reflections on Not Chasing Bubbles; Integrity vs. Respect

The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

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