Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. How can you boost your financial acumen? How do you decide which concepts are most important to understand to your work and your understanding of the business? Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. What the Experts Say. Overcome your fears.

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

It is not just the purview of finance to interpret the numbers that govern profit and loss; it behooves every employee to understand how and why the company makes money, spends money, and measures financial performance. The most important terms and concepts to understand are how to measure: Profitability. Cash flow.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. Business students are taught to value a company based on the discounted amounts of future cash flows or earnings. Analysts increasingly rely on non-GAAP metrics.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

These concerns raise the following questions: how can investors – whether venture capital and private equity firms, or public-market investors – accurately assess the true underlying financial valuation of these businesses? The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g.,

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