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The Top 13 Metrics that CEOs Should Measure for Strategic Success

LSA Global

While the specific strategy success metrics vary across different industries and different strategies, metrics tend to fall into four overall buckets: Financial, Customer, Employee, and Other. Here is a list of the top thirteen metrics that CEOs should measure for strategic success.

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

Harvard Business

FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia. However, such coarse data doesn’t capture how widely practices can vary between individual companies. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business

Today, community banks are being consolidated and larger banks are relying more and more on data-driven credit scoring to make small business loans—if they are making them at all. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

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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. Its findings deserve much discussion, debate, and attempts at replication.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. This isn’t a dry accounting lesson—it’s a dynamic session designed to help you decode your numbers and turn financial data into a strategic advantage! Register now!

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Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Tom Spencer

There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. This will have a pronounced effect on leverage and coverage metrics. As a secondary metric, large asset managers with diversified businesses may also be looked at from a free cash flow yield perspective.

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Equity Research: Understanding the Role of Stock Analysts

Tom Spencer

Understanding Equity Research The role of an equity researcher is to analyze financial data, industry trends, and other information to create detailed reports on specific companies or sectors. This includes analyzing a company’s financial statements, such as its income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.