Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! This article is designed to give you some immediate traction while still setting you up for long-term success. Go through your network and proactively reach out with a free article or other value.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. “The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

Also, as we explained in an earlier article , we believe that being an established CEO of a small firm involves much less angst than being a senior member of a consulting, investment banking, or private equity firm. million EBITDA company for 4x paying $6 million and using 50% debt financing.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

” And that’s exactly what the method shows you, says Knight: “The time it takes for the cash flow from the project to return the original investment.” Say, for example, the cash flow for the project was actually $3,000/year in Year 1 and nothing thereafter. Finance & Accounting Article.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. Investors are paying more attention to ideas and options than to earnings.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. The Board Had No Finance Committee. in 2013 to 3.7 in early 2018, according to Moody’s.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Moreover, in instances where borrowers want to shop and compare myriad options in one place, they turn to online credit brokers like Fundera or Intuit’s QuickBooks Financing for a one-stop shopping experience.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Utilization goals must strike a balance between short-term revenue targets and long-term considerations to avoid burnout or underutilization, which can lead to cash flow issues. Over time, this KPI facilitates precise cash flow forecasts, enabling strategic investments in line with long-term objectives.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

They mean that I can have the rights to the cash flows from a company’s shares without owning the share itself. True enough, but trivial relative to the other costs of the finance industry, and certainly not relative to benefit to be gained. So who owns the voting rights to that share? Often we don’t know.

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Progressus

AUGUST 29, 2023

Ultimately, these hurdles jeopardize the firms’ ability to set and achieve short-term and long-term objectives, forecast cash flows, and strategize for the future. To steer the business in the right direction, the finance department requires instantaneous data on project statuses, forthcoming deals, and future client engagements.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 20, 2018

However, you will find out in this article why you have no need to worry, as long as you can remember just a few fundamental principles of this type of case. Yes, M&A is not all about finance! There are three main valuation methods you can use to estimate the value of the company: Discounted Cash Flow , Comparable Companies , and.

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. Increasingly, managers find themselves in sometimes heated debate, pitted against their companies’ actuaries, product managers, risk and finance executives, and boards of directors.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. I’ll try to summarize some of the causes and historical contexts in this article to provide a greater-than-Big-Short level analysis. Money became stagnant, and cross-border capital flows dramatically reduced.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Instead, the finance office can allow the department to keep some of the savings it created, in excess of the original acquisition cost, in future year budgets. This is an imperfect option though since it still does not give a department the incentive to achieve savings in future years.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of the most stressful things about being self-employed is managing your cash flow. This information helps you better manage your monthly cash flow. Another tip: “Make sure you have the name and contact details of the person in finance with whom you’ll be dealing with,” says Pearce. .”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.” Fewer companies would go public, instead financing themselves by taking on more debt. The evidence suggests this view is more accurate. It takes no skill to simply spend money.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

discounted cash flow (DCF)) and to check if the M&A between two companies would result in an accretive or dilutive situation. The technical interviews were just like any investment banking interviews which involved a lot of finance, accounting, valuation, DCF, and M&A model questions. Conclusion.

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 3, 2017

Fast Company recently had an article titled, “ Forget Startups Just Buy a Small Business from a Retiring Entrepreneur.” Using statistics from BizBuySell.com the article stated the median price of businesses at the end of 2016 rose 8% from 2015 to $216,000. Now for the top three points in the article.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Firms are realizing what microfinance has known for a while: Local self-policing groups, or village headmen who police honor codes, can hedge cash flows in far-flung places. Toyota and Yamaha have found motorbike customers through such social group structures.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. This example illustrates that investors consider information beyond just earnings as value-relevant.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

For finance, short-term revenue gains do not justify poor treatment of members. By changing each piece of your business model to focus on maintaining a long-term relationship rather than on quick acquisition of new customers, you can enjoy higher profitability, more predictable cash flow and customers who are your ambassadors.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

We have a few articles in our “writing folder” (articles I’ve saved to write about) on bad management, how technology is replacing people, and employee unhappiness. It’s not reckless money like it was 15 years ago but financing options abound, including for lower middle market and below sized deals. Corporate baloney.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Earlier today, reader Charles asked me what I thought about an article on ZeroHedge entitled " Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse? " They encapsulate the self-reinforcing interactions between perceptions of value and risk, risk-taking and financing constraints which translate into financial booms and busts.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

To help provide a better factual base for this debate, MGI, working with McKinsey colleagues from our Strategy & Corporate Finance practice as well as the team at FCLT Global, began last fall to devise a way to systemically measure short-termism and long-termism at the company level. Earnings quality: Accruals as a share of revenue.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

“It takes time to get a consistent cash flow going. Find an accountant who can help you set up your finances and make tax filing easier. Goel suggests getting “directly introduced by a common connection” so that someone vouches for your skills and you know the company is a reputable one.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." Who Is Kristi Culpepper? You should be.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2015

BitGold just completed a financing for C$18 million, which included some top name institutional investors. After this financing, BitGold’s two main owners are the shareholders of GoldMoney and Roy Sebag, whose understanding of gold is as deep as anyone I have ever met. Attempts by others have failed or languished.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. John Hussman had a thought-provoking article this week on the The Minsky Bubble. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Minyanville Business and Market News. Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. US in a Minsky Bubble?

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature. A new methodology, which we call customer-based corporate valuation (CBCV), holds the answer to both of these – and other similarly critical – questions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The Brady-Ryan plan is based on a “destination-based cash flow tax” (DBCFT) that is also mistakenly labeled a “border-adjustment tax” and has five critical features: A reduced rate, down to 20%. That plan has dominated tax reform dialogue for the last six months, and unfortunately so.

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