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Profit vs. Positive Cash Flow

CaseInterview.com

They’re obsessively concerned that their sales growth will be too low to generate enough cash to pay the bills. However, if you truly understand accounting and the relationship between the cash flow statement versus the profit and loss statement, it is totally possible to go bankrupt by growing too fast. (And

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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

It’s important to remember that, all else (risk, cash flow, community relations, ethical or legal constraints) being equal, NO project sponsor has ever said they want LESS value from a project for their investment! But without doing such an analysis, how can we even start?

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The End-of-Quarter Sales Rush Costs Companies Money

Harvard Business

Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs. InsideSales Labs, a division of our company, InsideSales.com, recently conducted research analysis on 9.8 It is a vicious cycle.

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Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners?

Harvard Business

To ground our analysis, let’s assume that the alternative to being a small firm CEO is to follow a traditional post-MBA career and recognize that, at best, we can only compare expected paths because everyone’s experience will be different. In this example, the annual cash flow is $1.5

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Case Math

Tom Spencer

Break Even Analysis: Relevant when trying to decide whether to launch a new product or invest in a project with high fixed costs. Net Present Value: The NPV of an investment is the present value of the series of expected future cash flows generated by the investment minus the cost of the initial investment. (Source: Flickr ).

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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. This will provide you with the necessary foundation in financial concepts and analysis that will allow you to present well in the interview and hit the ground running from day one.

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

MishTalk

Most correlation analysis finds virtually no post-war relationship between economic growth and the stock market. In other words, there may be more to the recent flash-crash than just one weak retail sales datum a deeper malaise surrounding weak profits may be driving events. Are Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) increasing?

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