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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Professional Services Firms

Progressus

Factors impacting profit margins include the tendency to allocate 80% of project work with the last 20% of the budget, inaccurate time-sheet reporting, underbidding during the sales process, and client disputes. It provides a high-level overview of business performance, highlighting the sustainability of the current strategy.

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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

What Investment Bankers Do There are several key roles within investment banking, including corporate finance, sales and trading, and research. How would you value a company with negative historical cash flow? What is typically higher – the cost of debt or the cost of equity? How do you calculate the cost of equity?

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Starting A New Company? Do You Need Help? It Is Available

Business Consulting Agency

Sales/Marketing. Point of Sale. Reporting/Analytics. Cash Flow Management. Business consulting topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following are as follows: Business Consulting Topics. Retail/E-Commerce. Corporate Filing. Employee relations/Human Resources. Vendor Relations. Product Development.

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Overcoming Business Challenges with Business Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

A report by Aberdeen Group found that companies working with consultants achieved a 28% improvement in operational efficiency. Business consultants help companies analyze financial data, identify areas of improvement, and develop strategies for cost reduction, revenue enhancement, and cash flow management.

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What is Your Real Income

Martinka Consulting

I’m working with a private equity firm to find add-on HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or refrigeration companies for their plumbing construction firm in the Seattle area (so if you know of any doing at least $5 million in sales who want an investor let me know). Not to mention no management reports, no metrics, KPIs, etc.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

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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Earnings Cheating Season: Is Your Favorite Company Cooking the Books?

MishTalk

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).

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