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A Game Plan for Funding Carbon Offsets

Harvard Business

Most businesses will be reluctant to tie up capital in this way, but such projects can be (and have been) financed by perpetual bonds, which represent attractive investments for investors such as university endowments that have very long liability streams extending far into the future.

Finance 63
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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal).

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Know Your Weaknesses

CaseInterview.com

When I buy a new product, the first thing I do is throw out the product manual. If you’re not great at finance, hire someone who is. If you find case interviews painful, you definitely don’t want to be a consultant. This has been true since I was 16 years old. The other thing I’m terrible at is following instructions.

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Is your small business making enough profit?

Asamby Consulting

Major cost and expense types The major types of cost are Cost of goods sold (COGS, including some of the below) Staff cost (salaries) Cost of financing (interest rates) Offices and buildings Energy Marketing cost Depending on your industry, different types might be dominant. You can also increase you return on equity by using debt financing.

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What is Project Accounting?

Progressus

Its most general definition is processing financial transactions by project including costs, billings, and revenue. Additionally, the time needed to reconcile spreadsheets to both the GL and project reporting negatively affects productivity which in turn risks profitability. Project accounting is an overly broad term.

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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

That's because a finance person drew the lifecycle.). Every sprint delivers working product.” So, here are the definitions you can point your leaders to, so they understand. They do have product goals. Don't assume you're doing Scrum if you don't have a product owner. Software product development is learning.

Agile 116
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Why Getting Your MBA Gives You Confidence

Tom Spencer

The skills gained from experiencing both successful and unsuccessful attempts to deal with leadership, management challenges, product launches and marketing if not defining a market itself are invaluable. Marguerite Arnold is an entrepreneur, author and third semester EMBA candidate at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Finance 60