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Empowering Small Business Growth Through Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

However, navigating the complexities of business operations, strategic planning, and growth can be challenging for small business owners. They work closely with business owners to assess current operations, identify growth opportunities, and develop actionable strategies to achieve long-term goals.

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Why Life Insurers and Asset Managers Must Join Forces to Win

BCG

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations. The industry’s overall business growth has stalled, and investment income has become a critical mainstay.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

And it’s those common links that inform tech investments, transformation strategies, and how firms respond to the disruptive forces that define the modern business landscape. A client will now pay for the overall gains such as tax savings, ROIs, insurance claims, and so on.

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China Faces "Minsky Moment" on Ponzi Financing

MishTalk

Work by Nomura’s Chief China Economist indicates that more than half of Local Government Funding Vehicles, which borrow money on behalf of local governments to invest in infrastructure, have insufficient cash flows to pay interest or principal; the exact manifestation of Minsky’s Ponzi finance regime.

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AAA – Not to the Rescue

Martinka Consulting

When it comes time to sell however, they want to demonstrate that the business has more cash flow than the tax returns (and financial statements) show. Adjustments , as in, “you can adjust some of our operations to make more profit.” AAA in the world of driving a car is pretty cheap “insurance.”

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

Harvard Business

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business

And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online. These low-cost and reliable sources of funds are from taxpayer-insured deposits and the Federal Reserve’s discount window. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine.

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