Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

tax law is likely to increase after-tax cash flows for U.S.-based There’s a strong argument that they should invest in growth , and the newly available cash offers them a unique chance to do so. The intrinsic value of a company with growing cash flows doubles every time the discount rate is cut in half.

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Cash Flow Retail Fashion Efficiency 119

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

For example, SMEs currently account for more than 99% of businesses in Europe ( Economist Intelligence Unit 2011 ). For example, McDonalds offers a range of different products (e.g. For example, McDonalds can produce hamburgers, French fries and salads at a lower average cost than it would cost to produce any of these goods separately.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow. For example, companies can boost earnings per share by repurchasing shares, thereby hitting compensation targets, while forgoing value-creating investments in the business.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 20, 2022

For example, Facebook’s code resides on Facebook servers in a centralized cloud that either Facebook owns or controls. Cryptocurrencies don’t produce a monthly cash flow like, say, renting out a home or building full of apartments (or flats). So, it’s not inherently a cash-flow-producing type of asset.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 1, 2017

All acquirers will want to increase cash flow, but the length of their investment in the company will differ, depending on the type. For example, how much of a risk is it to integrate two different sales departments, each of which with its own bonus structure? – Financial Acquirer, like a PE firm.

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Successful Independent Consulting

MAY 31, 2018

As an independent consultant, cash flow is erratic. For example, about every two years I take my daughter on an international trip. (Relatedly, under-promise and over-deliver.) • Make your client look good; be the wizard behind the curtain. Siphon off 40% of every client payment. Live within your means.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

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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Small Business Cash Flow Consulting Banking 71

Successful Independent Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

Determine your legal structure , for example a sole proprietor, limited liability company (LLC) or S-corporation. Prepare and file organizational paperwork with your state if you will be doing business as anything other than a sole proprietor—for example as a partnership, LLC, S Corp, or C Corp. Get a State Tax ID if you need one.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

” And that’s exactly what the method shows you, says Knight: “The time it takes for the cash flow from the project to return the original investment.” Here’s what you do: Take the initial investment and divide it by how much cash you expect the investment to bring in each year.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

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. Last year, for example, India, which imports about 80% of its crude requirements, began importing oil from the US for the first time in its history.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital. In fact, the multiple of value created by growth versus margins is more than four to one.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! Use Examples of What You Do that Relates to Their Situation ( Goal: Make your value proposition relevant to them). Before we get started. Add Value to Them (Goal: Give them a taste of your value).

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Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2015

Looking at it this way, assets will be resources that increase in value or generate cash flow. You may have one eye on cash flows, but you are basically trying to ensure your organisation’s long term survival and prosperity. If you are a strategist, then your goal is different again.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2015

Looking at it this way, assets will be resources that increase in value or generate cash flow. You may have one eye on cash flows, but you are basically trying to ensure your organisation’s long term survival and prosperity. If you are a strategist, then your goal is different again.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 24, 2024

For example, a manufacturing company might explore new markets or develop complementary products to ensure a more stable income. Businesses should adopt conservative financial management practices , such as effective cash flow monitoring, prudent budgeting, and building a large war chest of cash and other liquid assets.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

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. Consider three examples.

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Consultant Journal

MARCH 5, 2020

If there is a shut down, how will you inform staff and stakeholders, for example? Take a look at your cash flow and what a change to sales or staffing could do. Look for opportunities to offer work from home, make-up shifts, sick days, leave or other flexible conditions that promote health and wellness.

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Women in Consulting

JUNE 12, 2014

We can also do specific things that can increase our cash flow. Offer New Services: If you want to improve your cash flow and build your business, think of adding additional service offerings to yourcustomers/clients. Here is an example: I offer three different services: Taxes, Bookkeeping and Payroll.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! Use Examples of What You Do that Relates to Their Situation ( Goal: Make your value proposition relevant to them). Before we get started. Add Value to Them (Goal: Give them a taste of your value).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Even a slight tweak — such as moving to a club pricing model like Costco’s — might have solved its cash-flow problems. For example, it could have looked to category creators like Studio Movie Grill, a rapidly growing $200 million movie theater that provides full meals during the show.

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Cash Flow Case Study Case Studies Advertising 129

Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

Cash flow, cash flow, cash flow The economic climate is still unstable. In this economic climate, it remains critical for small business to stay on top of their cash flow. If you can balance these two things, for example in your lead generation, you will be having a great year.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

For example, every morning, a liberated company’s manager would ask whether there is anything preventing her team from doing their best. For example, the director of one of their largest warehouses asked 150 employees to determine the “playing field” for which they have responsibility.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Money Policies to Manage Cash Flow. For example, do you plan to have a shutdown for the Christmas period?” Yes, that's still a policy, but no one signs off, and, so far, the teams can deploy during that time. The managers created friction, which resulted in problems. Now, the teams have a reasonable constraint.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For example, they use online marketplaces to reduce the search costs for willing lenders to find creditworthy borrowers. Online lending platforms like OnDeck have been using information on cash flows and direct deposits from small businesses’ bank accounts as a key indicator of credit health since 2006.

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Small Business Data Cash Flow Banking 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. The galleys on Norwegian’s ships, for example, were separated from dining areas, which meant that in this new scheme passengers had to wait a long time for food.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

What can you afford: Cash Flow Cashflow is king for small business. So first, you must check what size of investment your cash flow can accommodate. Don't use more than 25% of your free cash flow for a consulting project to leave enough room for other growth related investments. Your ROI would be 100%.

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Small Business Cash Flow Consulting ROI 52

Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

When do you go off the long-term, drip-by-drip approach to growth because cash flow is tight? History is filled with examples of people who pushed the order button too soon. When is it time to declare martial law? (or or your version of it). When do you abandon your project plan because the boss is hysterical?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Consider, for example, a surgical patient who starts in the pre-operative area, then moves to the operating room, the post-anesthesia care unit, and the inpatient floor, with occasional side trips for imaging, testing, and physical therapy. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Their measurements conflict with their managerial inclinations, encouraging them to use earnings booked today to immediately return cash to shareholders. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. Here’s a hypothetical example of how they might work at GE.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 15, 2021

For example, if a sports fan in a jampacked stadium tries to access an online betting site during the game, the connection may simply be too slow. Slow and unreliable networks have traditionally been an issue that deterred sports bettors from engaging in in-play or live betting. When there are too many users a network can become congested.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

The recent partnership between OnDeck and JPMorgan Chase is such an example. Though the new underwriting is fast and uses intriguing new data, such as current bank transaction and cash flows, it’s still early days for these new credit scoring methods, and they have largely not been tested through an economic downturn.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

This approach seeks to benefit from the large free cash flows that successful gold mining companies are likely to generate during a gold bull market. For example, HSBC, the custodian of the world’s largest gold ETF (GLD) has been involved in major money laundering scandals and other shady allegations.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

I represent a lot of business buyers and often I hear something like the following, “I won’t pay more than X times cash flow” (or profit, or EBITDA – pick your term). ” The above examples have the bank lending either 4X FCF or 3.2X ” That was then, this is now.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2018

An Example – A Strategic Objective to Increase Cash Flow. Let’s take an example of a strategic initiative to increase cash flow. Is the concept of cash flow crystal clear to all employees? Are the current and desired levels of cash flow clear?

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Energy production is extremely capital intense, and often accompanied by negative free cash flow. The debt rout is one of the latest examples of a boom and bust in U.S. For example, please consider the dismal state or European banks as noted in Charts Show 28 Seriously Troubled Mega-Banks: 24 of them in Europe.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

While companies are required to share the same materials with all investors, they can emphasize the elements that will be most relevant to particular investor segments—highlighting stable cash flow for pension funds or payouts for growth-oriented investors, for example.

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