Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2017

Bills come in, sales go out, you have your day-to-day goals and you watch the curvy line of profit and loss make its inexorable progress throughout the financial year. You have your big one-year and … Continue reading "What a Business Financial Statement Can Tell You About the Health of Your Business".

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

building financial models like DCF, accretion/dilution, LBO, etc.). Such transactions typically happen between two businesses that are about the same size and which recognize advantages the other offers in terms of increasing sales, efficiencies, and capabilities. Mergers occur when two companies join forces. Potential Drawbacks.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 14, 2021

There’s no MLS, the seller doesn’t want anybody to know the business is for sale, there’s a lot more information to verify, and comparable sales information is limited. Financial people will tell you to measure everything. This is a project-based business and work in process was not being recorded on the balance sheet.

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MishTalk

MARCH 19, 2014

Adair Turner, former Chairman of the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority, and current member of the UK’s Financial Policy Committee and the House of Lords proposes a need to Rethink the Monetization Taboo. The Fed’s tapering merely slows the growth of its balance sheet.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Germany is one of the most financially stable countries in the Euro-zone, so its failure to sell all of its Bunds is worth examining. Firstly, the German Debt Agency ( Finanzagentur ) normally retains part of any new Bund offer, so a partial sale of Bunds is pretty standard. Secondly, German Bunds are expensive. How could Dexia fail?

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Women in Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

into office supplies, these items must now be put on the balance sheet and depreciated and tracked. There are two exceptions to the $200 limit: If the taxpayer has audited financial statements or filing statements with the SEC, they can have a limit of $5000. Instead of lumping items like cheap printers, phones, routers, etc.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 19, 2016

His primary motivation was he’s burned out and the driving force for the burn out is 2015 was not a good year financially. Sales were down from 2014 and expenses were up. His balance sheet is a mess. Last month a friend referred me to a business owner wanting to sell his company.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many other financial firms including AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac needed bail outs. It may feel as though the financial system hasn’t changed much in the decade since the downturn, but it has. Most of the regulation was meant to safeguard the financial system, and the taxpayers who had to bail it out, from another crisis.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2021

You may think it sexy to make something but if you’re a sales type with no manufacturing experience it’s probably a road to disaster. Have a strong balance sheet. Have accurate and consistent financial statements (this often means don’t blend your business and personal checkbooks). I’ll know it when I see it doesn’t work.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

How can you boost your financial acumen? ” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.” Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 31, 2009

Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. The government will buy those assets, freeing up the major banks to loan again to businesses.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 16, 2014

Ignazio Angeloni, who is head of the ECB’s financial stability directorate, said in Frankfurt “ We’ve got a feasible but safe capital cushion of 8 percent. What looked like was going to be a strict stance of the European Central Bank (ECB) regarding sovereign debt portfolios of financial institutions, is not so.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The eurozone is doing so by accident, letting market forces drain liquidity from the financial system for month after month. The ECB balance sheet has plummeted to 23pc of eurozone GDP from a peak of 32pc in July 2012. Retail sales fell 1.6pc in December, the biggest drop for two-and-a-half years.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Even in healthier financial times, such as now, firms often downsize because it is seen as a way to reduce costs, adjust structures, and create leaner, more efficient workplaces. Proponents of downsizing argue that it is an effective strategy, with benefits such as increased performance and sales.

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Free Agent CFO

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I’ve been building financial models for more than 20 years. I’ve even been a VAR for a leading driver-based financial modeling tool. Instead, they should be saying to quit walking away after the job of reporting financial or non-financial data based on the past. Sales go up 11-12 percent annually.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. She has uncovered things the City of Chicago does not want anyone to understand. The city has a very?—?well,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 11, 2018

Experience has taught me that the art of good M&A requires a combination of careful research, emotional intelligence, and attention to detail that might otherwise get overlooked; due diligence requires more than a scan through boxes of contracts and reviewing the balance sheet. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The financial services firm USAA prizes its relationships with customers and consistently earns the highest customer loyalty scores in the industry for both its U.S. Take a balance-sheet view. banking and insurance businesses. To that end, here are five guidelines for expanding share with current customers.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Sales of Class 8 heavy trucks are on pace for one of the best years in history - around 260,000 units in North America. A possible explanation for the SEP’s prediction of a rapid catch-up to potential GDP after 2009 is that participants overestimated the efficacy of monetary policy in the aftermath of a so-called balance-sheet recession.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Using analytics, organizations have deployed bigger data sets, cheaper cloud computing power, and more aggressive algorithms to successfully standardize previously non-standard processes such as sales and service, making them more repeatable, predictable, and amenable to analytics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Next, they use the financial press and blogs to spread their message to the institutional investors. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

I don''t and neither does Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets. The Financial Times reports China house price surge raises prospect of steps to cool market. A series of land sales have set record prices since August, with real estate developers ramping up their competition for the best plots in the biggest cities.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

For us, growth events mean simply concrete, directly observable achievements that foreshadow future success: for example, new customer contracts, initial export sales, new bank or equity financings, expanded production capacity, or expanded people platforms (e.g. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales.

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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

despite very accommodative financial conditions and record corporate profits, growth of business fixed investment has been tepid. Looking forward, my outlook for 2015 is that economic growth will be close to the pace of the past two years, supported by continued solid fundamentals and accommodative financial conditions.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Since pension entitlements and welfare payments are often indexed to inflation, understating the true rate of inflation can help the government to reduce its financial liabilities. This is already impacting home sales, and Fannie Mae forecasts home sales will fall for the next 2 years.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 9, 2020

When I studied economics at Sydney University in the early 2000s and financial economics at Oxford in the early 2010s, I learned pretty much the same thing about money; very little. This is a problem to the extent that they have large fixed costs like rent or interest payments.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In secondary markets, the sales & trading function operates as a market maker. Although mortgages do not necessarily pay high interest rates, they do not eat up any capital due to the safety of the financial product and implicit government guarantees. They help to match sellers with buyers (playing the role of a broker).

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MishTalk

JULY 13, 2015

Remember, the card is loaded with currency using proceeds from metal sales. At BitGold that means gold metal sales. This makes silver an unattractive element for high velocity payments as we subsidize the storage fee from our own operational balance sheet. We appreciate your interest in BitGold. Reader Tom Writes.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2014

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. George Magnus writing for the Financial Times about the cash crunch noted "China’s credit boom is still in full swing. Here we are. S&P UP 29.6% The broad U.S.

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