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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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Benefits of Small Business Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

Financial Management and Optimization Consultants with financial expertise provide small businesses with valuable insights into budgeting, cash flow management, financial forecasting, and cost optimization.

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What is Your Real Income

Martinka Consulting

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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Financial Shenanigans Versus Incompetence

Martinka Consulting

Sometimes it’s because they’d sooner “play” with their product than worry about the numbers and often it’s because they’re doing so well it becomes “management by checkbook,” as in, there’s plenty of money so who cares about cash flow, metrics, etc.

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Winning Isn’t Everything: The Art of Playing Well

Tom Spencer

Companies that operate with integrity are more likely to build sustainable business models, which ultimately benefit the company, its employees, society, and the environment. In 1988, he purchased a large stake in the company, seeing its strong brand, steady cash flow, and long-term growth potential.

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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

They are doing very well, they aren’t working too hard, and they don’t want to disrupt the nice moneymaking system they have. Buying another company, assimilating it into your operation, and showing that the combined profits are greater than the two individual companies’ profits demonstrates to potential buyers that this can be done.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business

Corporate governance is a system of checks and balances that a company designs to ensure that it faithfully serves its governing objective. Countries that operate under common law, including the United States and the United Kingdom, lean in this direction. The first believes the company’s goal is to maximize shareholder value.