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Cash Flow Relief for Independent Consultants: the CARES Act & Other Ideas

Successful Independent Consulting

This article explains your options for cash-flow relief, whether you need it immediately or in the near future, and how to get it. There are several ways to get some cash-flow relief to help you pay your bills in the near term as a result of the $2 trillion CARES Act: 1. A stimulus payment from the U.S. government 2.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business

In comparison, absorption of AI might reach today’s level of digital absorption by 2027—in roughly ten years. About half of those will do so in half the time, and may more than double their operating cash flows by 2030. These companies could lose around 20% of cash flow by 2030 compared with today.

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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! Second, let us recognize that this project is, in comparison to the others in the portfolio, an extremely attractive one.

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

It is also the case that the companies generating the highest immediate cash flows, which should be overvalued on the myopia theory, historically have had the highest stock market returns , implying undervaluation rather than overvaluation. McKinsey tries to address this issue by doing comparisons within industries.

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

Harvard Business

To keep things simple, we’ll take advantage of our assumptions of no growth and a constant multiple and ignore the actual timing of the cash flows. This leaves us only with the cash flows that occur between the purchase and the eventual sale. In this example, the annual cash flow is $1.5

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business

By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. Banks’ cost of capital is typically 50 basis points or less.

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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business

With the best of intentions, many proxy advisors and long-term investors have widely blessed three years as appropriate, adopting three-year pay for performance as their standard comparison. Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure.