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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

What Investment Bankers Do There are several key roles within investment banking, including corporate finance, sales and trading, and research. How would you value a company with negative historical cash flow? What is typically higher – the cost of debt or the cost of equity? How do you calculate the cost of equity?

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! Attend Networking Events. Choose events that your ideal client will be attending (vs. When you are at the event, practice using a more conversational and branded response to the question “So, what do you do?”

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It’s Not a Sales Problem You Have But a Marketing Problem!

Chad Barr

What commonly then surfaces is not that they have a sales problem but a serious marketing problem. So next time you are worrying about revenues and cash flow, I’d suggest you look at your marketing plan and in the event you don’t have one, I recommend you create one immediately. Leave your comment here. .

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! Attend Networking Events. Choose events that your ideal client will be attending (vs. When you are at the event, practice using a more conversational and branded response to the question “So, what do you do?”

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Business Book Review: Boston Consulting Group On Strategy

Management Consulted

Welcome to yet another opportunity to gain valuable insights from a book review, written by Preeti Vemu, MC intern, MC events organizer extraordinary, and an ex-Deloitte consultant. The focus here is completely on cash flows and not projections. It’s a tasty deal (ahem, read), I’d say.

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Earnings Cheating Season: Is Your Favorite Company Cooking the Books?

MishTalk

In other words, there may be more to the recent flash-crash than just one weak retail sales datum a deeper malaise surrounding weak profits may be driving events. Is there a growing divergence between net income and operating cash-flow? Are Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) increasing? If so (i.e.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Record number of small business sales in 2018! PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Magazine – 65-75% of small companies in the US – some 10 million – likely hang up a “for sale” sign in the next 10 years (2015). Conclusion.