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. Cash flow. To understand how one metric affects another, understand some common scenarios.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Personal credit scores like FICO consider a combination of metrics such as payment history, current level of indebtedness, and types of credit used by potential small business borrowers. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements. However, how those metrics translate into revenues remains a mystery to external investors.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Identify the right metrics. In the digital membership economy, the metrics best apt to indicate success are more likely to be around member churn and engagement. For finance, short-term revenue gains do not justify poor treatment of members. Successful membership businesses focus on the long-term relationship.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g., Case Study: Blue Apron.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. Our belief is that the earnings of long-term companies will rely less on accounting decisions and more on underlying cash flow than other companies. With this metric, the gap between long-term companies and the rest is even bigger.

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