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Your Complete Guide to Subcontracting as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Having consistent cash flow is one of the hardest parts about being self-employed, especially when youre just starting your business. To improve cash flow, I recommend subcontracting as a way to generate income while you continue to build your own business. It can be difficult for veterans, too! What makes you stand out?

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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

To prevent a crisis, HHI rationalized their management by disposing of non-core assets (like stocks and real estate), reducing costs, and ending extra working hours to reach a new level of financial stability. MHI has over 80,000 employees on board from different countries and cultures who are led by effective team management.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Some of these ideas contradict traditional financial thinking whereas others seem highly controversial or pessimistic. We distilled seven key insights from those discussions.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business

The governing objective is the cornerstone upon which the organization builds its culture, communications, and choices about how it allocates capital. Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow.

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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. Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. Corporate culture. Compensation structure.

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If Using Freelancers Is The Way Many Companies Do Business Now, How Do You Protect Your Corporate Culture?

Simon Associates

The challenge was how to employ the new engineering talent he needed without adding unnecessary expenses, at least until his business started to generate cash flow again — not an uncommon challenge today. It was a similar challenge for a company trying to replace its marketing team without incurring fixed costs.