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Mergers & Acquisitions: Valuation

Tom Spencer

Building on information provided in Management Consulting: A Guide to the Profession , I highlight three approaches that a consultant can use when performing a valuation: Balance sheet valuation; Market based valuation; and. Valuation of discounted expected future cash flows.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

You’d be foolish to think that every company is not having a conversation about how the virus impacts hiring and human resources. They have the resources to take a long-term view. The mid-size or smaller consulting firms may not have the same level of resources. Three prior downturns, what can we learn? Today, not so much.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow. Most major producers with large balance sheets will likely hedge their bets and attempt both. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters. Simultaneously, Nikon would shift to portfolio-based management, redefining the role of each business in its portfolio to optimize resource allocation.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

It could represent a hidden vulnerability, especially if backed by domestic currency cash flows derived from overextended sectors, such as property, or used for carry trades or other forms of speculative position-taking. Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession.

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There’s No Wrinkle in Time for the Time-based CFO

Free Agent CFO

Susan is constantly studying trends, interviewing key resources, and can tell you every single key number on the financials which are delivered on the last day of the month at 11:59 p.m. The balance sheet is dull and boring with almost no debt. It’s one of those balance sheets that lacks drama. And cash flow?