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Empowering Small Business Growth Through Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

This includes market analysis, competitor research, financial planning, and creating sustainable business models that drive profitability and scalability. Consultants assist in financial analysis, budgeting, cash flow management, and identifying areas for cost optimization and revenue enhancement.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities.

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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

This goes back to before the stock market crash of 1929. A 1932 research paper showed firms had loaded up with cash and post-crash, “companies were flush with cash and investors beleaguered,” which they wouldn’t pay out. Zweig writes that any form of modified profit isn’t cash flow. Medical insurance expense.

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business

The survey methods stratified firms by industry, age, and size so that our sample reflects the characteristics of businesses in the region. Almost one third of the firms negatively affected by the storm had no insurance of any Consistent with our predictions, young firms and small businesses insured at much lower rates.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

A nearly $150 million settlement is pending for the fake-account scandal that roiled the bank last year, and a new scandal has emerged: Recently it has been alleged that thousands of customers were signed up for insurance without their knowledge. We did not observe an obvious selection bias in which industries hired lawyer CEOs.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

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