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CEO Oasis: Relief for “Loneliness at the Top”

Emerson Consulting Group

For months now, Steve has been struggling over cash-flow problems with no solution in sight. Coming up with each new payroll has been terrifying him more and more as each deadline demands yet another inventive solution for meeting that period’s payday.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. They believe that they can always raise financial capital to meet their funding shortfall or use company stock or options to pay for acquisitions and employee wages.

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How to Turn Intangible Concepts into Tangible Services

The Fearless Marketer

– Better cash flow. It will give you a better idea of how I help my clients, and when we meet it will save us time.”. The Club is a collection of online marketing courses and tutorials, expert interviews, and resources – with hands-on, step-by-step strategies and guidance on how to attract more of your ideal clients.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Immediately after joining Nikon, he decided to interview some of them. His idea was to turn investor relations on its head by using regular meetings with top-class investors as something akin to due diligence. What he heard was uncomfortable. Nikon could then follow up by asking what would persuade the investor to repurchase.

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How to Turn Intangible Concepts into Tangible Services

The Fearless Marketer

– Better cash flow. It will give you a better idea of how I help my clients, and when we meet it will save us time.”. The Club is a collection of online marketing courses and tutorials, expert interviews, and resources – with hands-on, step-by-step strategies and guidance on how to attract more of your ideal clients.

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

Harvard Business

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm.

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There’s No Wrinkle in Time for the Time-based CFO

Free Agent CFO

Meet Susan. Susan is constantly studying trends, interviewing key resources, and can tell you every single key number on the financials which are delivered on the last day of the month at 11:59 p.m. And cash flow? Free cash flow is predictable and also tracks consistently with earnings. The Past-based CFO.