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The cost of hiring a consultant for small business in 2023

Asamby Consulting

Marketing consultants help you find and address your target group in the right channels and with the right messaging. Operations Consultants Operations consultants look into your company and help you make it run smoothly. What can you afford: Cash Flow Cashflow is king for small business. If yes, great.

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Do you have assets?

Tom Spencer

If you are an accountant, then your goal is to categorise resources into groups: assets, liabilities, and equity. From this perspective, assets will be resources that are owned or controlled by an organisation, and which can be used to better operate the business. The answer turns out to be largely a matter of perspective.

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Do you have assets?

Tom Spencer

If you are an accountant, then your goal is to categorise resources into groups: assets, liabilities, and equity. From this perspective, assets will be resources that are owned or controlled by an organisation, and which can be used to better operate the business. The answer turns out to be largely a matter of perspective.

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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. According to the Ivey Business Journal it has two parts: Improving the competitive strategies of operating units by capturing inter-divisional synergies; and. Group head interview (fit). Group head interview (fit). Corporate development. Corporate Strategy.

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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

These are outsourced by PE firms or corporate acquirers to a specialist adviser: lawyers for legal issues, accountants for auditing, and investment bankers for carrying out due diligence from a financing perspective. Table 1 – Framework for validating an M&A deal from a strategic and operational perspective.

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

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. “The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score.

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2008 Financial Crisis – Causes and historical context

Tom Spencer

My friends and I walked out of the Big Short several years ago feeling like a group of global financial crisis experts. Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. Money became stagnant, and cross-border capital flows dramatically reduced.