Successful Independent Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

get a State Tax ID number from your state’s government website. Avoid a full-time or long-term lease so you can keep your expenses as low as possible, especially in the beginning when cash flow will be tighter. I recommend this summary on Forbes.com: 20 of the Best Time Tracking Tools to Increase Your Productivity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

government. If you greatly reduce the production volume, the cars that do come out have to absorb more of the fixed costs, and that eventually sends the product into a profitability death spiral. The tragedy in America is that there is no consensus among leaders in business and government.

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MishTalk

MAY 14, 2014

In the latest sign, housing starts plummeted 25 percent in April from a year ago, the Chinese government announced on Tuesday. Economic data released on Tuesday also included a deceleration in industrial production, with growth in steel and cement output slowing to a crawl.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

But one other big factor has been hiding in plain sight: The efforts of corporate-governance activists and proxy advisers, empowered by the “Say on Pay” votes mandated by Dodd-Frank reforms, to stress transparency and pay for performance. One milestone might include completion of prototype-level next-generation digital products.

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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. Cash flow. A Lack of Business Acumen Exists. Where to Start. Operating income. Operating Expenses.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

But there has been a shift in how these entities are governed, one that has gone unnoticed in the outcry over executive pay packages, tax inversions, offshoring, and other controversies. They mean that I can have the rights to the cash flows from a company’s shares without owning the share itself.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

If they do, as many CEOs believe, this is a serious indictment of current corporate governance arrangements and has important policy implications. McKinsey has a new study out on an important topic — the question of whether corporations systematically take too short a view and do not invest enough for the long term.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5 in 2013 to 3.7

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” The UK Government is launching an inquiry into buybacks , due to concerns that they “may be crowding out the allocation of surplus capital to productive investment.” A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

First, small businesses tend to be more productive than larger ones and may be especially unlikely to invest in risk management that diverts resources from production. In essence, the fortunate firms took on more debt, committing the business to a stream of cash flows and expenses far into the future to pay for their losses.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Even my hometown can’t get our products right , Cameron thought as he chased Graham over to the playground. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. “Higher!” ” Graham shouted. “Good idea.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

While companies are required to share the same materials with all investors, they can emphasize the elements that will be most relevant to particular investor segments—highlighting stable cash flow for pension funds or payouts for growth-oriented investors, for example. The number of directors and officers would be reduced.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Economies of scope exist where a firm can produce two products at a lower per unit cost than would be possible if it produced only the one. With the Euro-zone at the brink of collapse, governments and business leaders may be well advised to revisit basic concepts like ‘economies of scope’. Importance. Economies of Scope.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. And employers and government do less to buffer individual families from the resulting ups and downs.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

What Has Government Done to Our Money? So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows. Home Builders.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Government debt-to-GDP ratios have risen further; in several cases, they appear to be on an unsustainable path. It could represent a hidden vulnerability, especially if backed by domestic currency cash flows derived from overextended sectors, such as property, or used for carry trades or other forms of speculative position-taking.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And isn’t the focus on quarterly results a natural outgrowth of the rigorous corporate governance that keeps executives accountable? 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.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Government Bonds: I'm not a big lender of money to governments period. I think that the strong dollar is having enormous production on US production and US businesses. What tools does the Fed or the US government have to help us out of it? Number three there's an existing cash flow. How bad is it?

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