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Start taking advantage of these 5 trends for small business in 2023

Asamby Consulting

Cash flow, cash flow, cash flow The economic climate is still unstable. In this economic climate, it remains critical for small business to stay on top of their cash flow. Also, the last years have shown how important it is to have some financial slack for unforeseen developments.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. Business students are taught to value a company based on the discounted amounts of future cash flows or earnings.

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

Harvard Business

This is a relatively simple exercise when analysts have access to rich enough data (say, a firm’s transaction log) – in such a case, we can directly observe how old each and every customer was, and there are time-tested models traditionally employed by actuaries to predict drop-off patterns by tenure across customer cohorts.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. Your goal is to develop a deep understanding of the precise “link between profit and loss” and how that affects your organization’s performance over time, says Knight.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

What’s fascinating about QE is that it has no transmission mechanism to the real economy except as a weak can-kicking exercise - and even then only by creating enormous distortions in pursuit of minute "wealth effects." Minsky noted that ‘euphoria’ might develop at this stage.