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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Professional Services Firms

Progressus

These metrics provide the foundation for more outcome-oriented engagements, leveraging real-time data to secure contracts, monitor progress, and demonstrate the value of client investments. Which Metrics Are Essential for Professional Services Firms?

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Equity Research: Understanding the Role of Stock Analysts

Tom Spencer

Understanding Equity Research The role of an equity researcher is to analyze financial data, industry trends, and other information to create detailed reports on specific companies or sectors. This includes analyzing a company’s financial statements, such as its income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.

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Looking Beyond Short Term Financial Metrics (Nigel Lake, Part 2 of 10)

Tom Spencer

Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? One of the ideas that I’ve been thinking about recently is that financial metrics are basically designed to evaluate how much you are getting out of a company, your cash flow take from the company.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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What is Your Real Income

Martinka Consulting

This means expenses for: A CEO at fair market salary. 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. Operating interest (a working capital line of credit).

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. What caused this slump?

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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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