Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Operating interest (a working capital line of credit). About 15 years ago I started using the term “free cash flow,” which is pretty much the same as what’s above. Not to mention no management reports, no metrics, KPIs, etc. Anticipated capital expenditures. I like the term “real income.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

and (ii) how can digital firms improve their financial reports to communicate sources of value creation in their businesses? So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Business students are taught to value a company based on the discounted amounts of future cash flows or earnings.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. Investors, therefore, look not just for reported revenues but for drivers behind the revenues, especially because digital companies’ operating activities often differ from their revenue-generating activities.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The Wall Street Journal and others recently reported about an accounting expert who had predicted the Madoff Ponzi scheme and recently went after GE for what he said are their deceptive accounting practices (of course, GE responded this person didn’t know what he was talking about).

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BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. In this report, BCG’s fourth annual study of shareholder value creation in ECS, we introduce the ECS Technology Index—a portfolio of 17 publicly listed technology and IT companies that participate in the industry. The following are among the report’s key findings.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

According to TSIA’s 2023 State of Professional Services report , services services remain at the core of professional services orgs across the spectrum. A recent FT report expects budgets will face more scrutiny, and as a result, clients will be more selective about who they work with.

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MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2014

Inquiring minds are tuning into a report on the Ponzi finance setup in China. Mish Note:] The prelude to the report on MacroBusiness Australia is interesting in and of itself: " From Morgan Stanley comes the latest must read bearish China report. There is more text and charts in the report. Morgan Stanley agrees.

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 18, 2021

Operating experience – Sam said be careful if you don’t have operating experience. Experience is important and it’s why we say a good buyer should be able to lead and manage, to some degree, people, processes, money, and enthusiasm. You must use free cash flow to truly calculate ROI.

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Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You manage expectations well right from the start. Work with contractors To get over that initial cash-flow issue, it can make sense to rely on contractors instead of employees. Managing client experience at scale What made you successful when you were still alone has only partly to do with the actual deliverables of your work.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In his latest Global Strategy Report , Albert Edwards at Societe Generale discusses " earnings season " which he calls " cheating season ". Despite the soothing Q3 headline earnings reports as US companies ‘game’ the system, all is not well once you look into the ‘MUC’ (Manipulated Underperforms Conservative). If so (i.e.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. These disruptions add up.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Add poorly managed properties into the equation and the empty malls aren't much of a surprise. Less foot traffic means cash flow of mall owners and developers are getting squeezed - a potential hazard for an economy growing at its slowest pace in decades. Major listed mall operators are also feeling the pain.

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Emerson Consulting Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For months now, Steve has been struggling over cash-flow problems with no solution in sight. No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Small businesses and young businesses are especially vulnerable. Data from the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. Related Video. What if revenue was higher?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Imagine being able to quickly and accurately calculate how much money a business is sacrificing through imperfect operation, and which areas of the business are draining the most profit. This is Profit that is being missed out on from areas of the business that aren’t operating as they should. Printable report.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

The question stems from lengthy (256 page PDF) from the BIS Annual Report (Bank for International Settlements) that stated among other things " The only source of lasting prosperity is a stronger supply side. As a result, extraordinary accommodation can induce major adjustments in asset prices and financial flows elsewhere. trillion.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

For example, the mental model you have about your business is your mental picture of how your business operates. My direct reports all know that anytime anything deviates from what I expect, I will be asking a series of questions that begin with “ why? ”. Scenario 1: Direct Report: “Sales went up 20%, unexpectedly…”. Me: “Why?”.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. For example, Culpepper reports Chicago general obligation bond deals have been used by the city as a means to avoid servicing short-term debt. The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund.

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Free Agent CFO

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Just Reporting and Then Walking Away – That’s the Real Problem. Instead, they should be saying to quit walking away after the job of reporting financial or non-financial data based on the past. Reporting and walking away–that’s the problem. Bookkeepers report and walk away. And cash flow?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Take Google.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Hugh Hendry Throws In Towel On November 22, InvestmentWeek reported long-time bear Hugh Hendry threw in the towel. ''I Zig Ziglar This story is more than a quote about persistence – it’s actually a reasonable description of risk-managed investing. We’re just getting warmed up.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 28, 2016

And if you’re the acquirer, you can benefit in only one of four ways: You buy an asset on the cheap (that’s what portfolio managers do), but it requires being smarter than the market in pricing the asset. No one, including AT&T itself, argues that the company can better manage Time Warner’s assets.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. MD Anderson Cancer Center lost $266 million on operations in FY 2016 and another $170 million in the first months of FY 2017. The following areas deserve special management attention.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2015

After careful review over the past couple weeks with both James Turk, founder of GoldMoney, and Roy Sebag, the co-founder of BitGold, I am pleased to report the news is 100% positive. GoldMoney will continue to operate in Jersey as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Toronto parent. So nothing really changes in that regard.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

China: I don't think China is growing as fast as it reports to be. It's an extraordinarily badly managed you know entity. ZELL: I don't think China is growing as fast as it reports to be. I mean in the last few months all the banks have redone their reserve reports. Number three there's an existing cash flow.

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