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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

A higher ratio of fee income implies less traditional credit risk and less balance sheet usage (therefore higher ROE) but also implies greater market risk related to securities portfolios and potentially higher revenue volatility related to volatility in capital markets. Valuation Metrics Price-to-earnings (P/E) Price-to-book (P/B) 2.1

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Are you a Loser, Struggler, Con Artist, or Winner?

The Fearless Marketer

So, I believe that the baseline for marketing all professional services and programs is to be honest and to communicate the context of your claims. Dishonest marketing also uses measurements and stories, but they are based on lies or a manipulation of the conditions. Comparison. appeared first on Action Plan Marketing.

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Is Your Business a “Service” or a “Brand”?

The Fearless Marketer

Almost nobody does because when a new product enters the market, branding isn’t important. That’s when the marketing shifts from being marketed as a new “Product” to being marketed as a new “Brand.”. You can find a coach for just about anything, from success achievement, to marketing professional services.

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Gallup Says Seasonally-Adjusted Unemployment Climbs to 8.6%; Who to Believe (Gallup or the BLS)?

MishTalk

Similar to P2P, unemployment fluctuates seasonally, and the year-over-year change is the most informative comparison. unemployment rate -- the closest comparison it has to the official numbers released by the BLS -- increased in August. Gallup''s unadjusted unemployment rate for the U.S. workforce was 8.7% in August, up from 7.8%

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. It has a reasonable methodology.

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

The Operations Manager's is usually not as wide or as deep, focusing on a more specific task, either on methodological or functional level. A potential candidate must have methodological experience, e.g. has set up a process documentation for other companies before. These roles are also types of functional operations management roles.

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Would a Hard Brexit Cripple the EU’s Digital Economy?

Harvard Business

The chart below shows the rate of change in the Digital Evolution Index over 2008-15 and how the UK performs in comparison to Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the Nordic countries. Editor’s note: Every ranking or index is just one way to analyze and compare companies or places, based on a specific methodology and data set.