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

MAY 25, 2019

There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. If there is a financial crisis, the stock market falls by half and the asset manager’s performance is in line with the stock market, they now make $500 million.

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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! So forget sales - let's master partnership set up: First, guide your future client towards articulating and quantifying their business performance gaps and the value they hope someone like you can bring to the table.

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Progressus

AUGUST 29, 2023

Ultimately, these hurdles jeopardize the firms’ ability to set and achieve short-term and long-term objectives, forecast cash flows, and strategize for the future. For project-driven firms, the essence of success lies in accurate project accounting, harmonized financials, and a comprehensive project view.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

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. Cash Flow Cash flow management is crucial for meeting day-to-day operational needs and setting the company up to invest in growth.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

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. These steps have been essential to strengthening the company’s financial foundation and building up resilience.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

However, managing them effectively can be challenging, given the intricacies of resource management, project performance, and diverse financial elements such as billing models, regulations, and currencies. Compliant with accounting standards, this metric ensures financial stability and informs cash flow management.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A December 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal article was titled, “ Car Sales Roll Along; Aided by Discounts.*” The gist of the article was sales are up over the same month a year earlier and the average discount was 11%, versus 9.4% To put it mildly, Jerry was financially incompetent. He knew cash flow.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

This can occur if sales drop drastically, and you didn’t see it coming. It can also occur when sales accelerate suddenly, and you didn’t see that coming either. Scenario 1: Direct Report: “Sales went up 20%, unexpectedly…”. Scenario 1: Direct Report: “Sales went up 20%, unexpectedly…”. Me: “Why?”. Me: “Why?”.

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MishTalk

MAY 14, 2014

Retail sales also grew more slowly than expected in April, and the furniture market stalled as fewer families moved into new homes. Financial Vulnerabilities in China In its May Financial Stability Report , the Reserve Bank of New Zealand warns about financial vulnerabilities in China.

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Real Estate Banking Construction Cash Flow 65

CaseInterview.com

MAY 26, 2023

It could be evaluated by tracking sales, calculating savings on operational costs, or counting new customer acquisitions. Accounting (Financial Advisory Consultants) Large accounting firms also offer consultation services to their clients. This group mainly targets financial advisory roles within a business.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A sharp decline in EPS optimism since 2009 has been consistent with previous hiatuses in financial markets. In other words, there may be more to the recent flash-crash than just one weak retail sales datum a deeper malaise surrounding weak profits may be driving events. Are Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) increasing? If so (i.e.

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

They are seeing first hand how many opportunities are being missed to improve profitability and cash flow just from existing operations alone. Financial Input The Profit Leakage Calculator requires basic financial information from the business being analyzed. Business Diagnostic Analysis.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They're typically engaged by clients who have solid sales or have seen tremendous growth and struggle to keep up with delivery. 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. Your monthly free cash-flow is 10,000.

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Small Business Cash Flow Consulting ROI 52

Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I’m working with a private equity firm to find add-on HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or refrigeration companies for their plumbing construction firm in the Seattle area (so if you know of any doing at least $5 million in sales who want an investor let me know). The founder of the PE firm has a distinct term for the earnings/income of a company.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2017

Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs. million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S. But sales managers also have to take some blame.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 7, 2015

I’m seeing more and more owners of small businesses ($3-10 million or so in sales) thinking their company is going to be priced the same as a $50-100 million firm. In the last few weeks owners (of companies doing $3-10 million in sales. I expect to sell my business for 6X total cash flow (profit or EBITDA plus owner salary).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

The value of that carried interest, of course, depends on the performance of the business, its size, amount of debt used to finance the acquisition and the eventual pricing of a subsequent sale. This leaves us only with the cash flows that occur between the purchase and the eventual sale.

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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 accurate and consistent financial statements (this often means don’t blend your business and personal checkbooks). Put a lot of time in on the non-financial factors.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Financial Education 40

Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure.

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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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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 18, 2021

You must use free cash flow to truly calculate ROI. Financial diligence – we agree a Quality of Earnings report is not usually necessary for small business deals (those that fit in the SBA loan range) but you must get a “proof of cash” from a CPA firm. Trust but verify” as President Reagan said.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 18, 2013

When it comes time to sell however, they want to demonstrate that the business has more cash flow than the tax returns (and financial statements) show. In my world it’s common to adjust the financial statements so they look as if the seller was trying to win bragging rights for high profit instead of minimizing taxes.

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Insurance Insurance Cash Flow Real Estate 40

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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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In the Discounted Future Cash Flow method profits are projected (same as the first issue) and discounted back to a present value. Using comparable sales of much larger firms will distort the value. An outsider may ask, how is this possible? For reference, a check of major bank PE ratios shows they are at about 15).

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Magazine – 65-75% of small companies in the US – some 10 million – likely hang up a “for sale” sign in the next 10 years (2015).

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

The board chose earnings per share (among other financial metrics) to measure and reward executives for long-term performance. Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure. Little financial incentive exists.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5 in 2013 to 3.7

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

While MROI is not usually public information, managers can use published financial statement data to estimate MROI for a competitor. It’s about “delivering customers and sales.” And if you end up with a negative ROI, the project is harder to justify on financial terms. Holding themselves accountable.

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ROI Marketing Financial Comparison 28

Free Agent CFO

MAY 10, 2018

It’s dangerous to your financial wellbeing. You’re spending far too much time talking about fixing cash flow problems (remember, that’s typically a symptom of a far bigger problem). When you believe several acquisitions are the key to stellar sales growth. Bottom line, you cannot afford to be generic.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

How can you boost your financial acumen? “The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. “You are not going to be involved in running projects unless you understand the financials,” he says. .” Overcome your fears.

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Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Improving Financial Performance. In addition to the financial benefits that accrue from increased competitive advantage and innovation as discussed earlier, companies are realizing significant cost savings through environmental sustainability-related operational efficiencies. That conventional wisdom has now reversed.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 29, 2020

All of my prospective clients decided not to buy anything for the upcoming year, and my future pipelines of sales declined by 100%. My sales forecast for 2009 was literally $0. I remember looking at the output page of the model and the final cell… monthly cash flow. I don’t know if I should laugh or cry on that one.) .

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Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Obviously, CEOs and executives are leaving valuable sales and profit on the table by tolerating toxic workplaces and bad bosses. When people are financially invested, they want a return. Their companies make 22% more profit. Despite these stellar numbers, 85% of employees worldwide are disengaged. In the US it is about 70%. Jack Welch.

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