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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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What gives Charity Managers a leading edge? Balancing commercial management with a social heart

The Management Centre

Chris: The programme we implemented covered commercial thinking, finance skills, and innovation. It was really important to me that we took a partnership approach; I didn’t want an off-the-shelf commercial or sales training course. It also had to be practical so we took a toolkit approach.

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For the Right Price…

Martinka Consulting

When there’s a raft of comparable sales and/or financing limits there are built-in pricing guidelines (with limited exceptions). Naked people exercise little or no influence on society.” Well, sentimental feelings don’t count for much when valuing a business, a car, a house, and many other things. Clothes make the man.

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Succeeding at the Edge of Discomfort

CaseInterview.com

Stated differently, the entire value of a weight training workout is in the final repetition of each exercise -- the one where your muscles struggle profusely and then "fail.". Once I understood how to do market entry strategy, they had me do sales force performance optimization. Got good at sales? Ran a finance organization?

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Pay your team right: A comprehensive guide to compensation

Asamby Consulting

This blog post gives you the comprehensive answer: Why compensation is important How to structure your fixed salary components What options for variable pay are there How to pick the right perks and benefits What allowances are and what to pay them for What long-term incentives are out there How strategy and finance influence compensation Let's go!

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M.A.D. Sanctions; Two Games at Once

MishTalk

Thus the EU let a French military sale to Russia go through, while blocking transactions and travel of Russians who had virtually nothing to do with this mess. From a financing standpoint, I suspect Granville is correct. Regardless, the exercise is a fool''s mission from the start given that everyone loses from sanctions.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

” “I was working in a wine shop during my undergrad and started to realize that I was able to close more sales by being a trusted advisor to my client rather than acting like a sales rep. When I started out in the program, I quickly realized I was never cut out for finance or accounting.