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Fall Business Maintenance Strategies

Business Consulting Agency

From financial planning to operational upkeep, implementing the right strategies during fall can help businesses stay ahead of the curve and ensure sustained success. Find out here about fall business maintenance strategies. Forecasting cash flow needs helps prevent shortages and ensures smooth operations during busy periods.

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Why Life Insurers and Asset Managers Must Join Forces to Win

BCG

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations. The industry’s overall business growth has stalled, and investment income has become a critical mainstay.

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Empowering Small Business Growth Through Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

They work closely with business owners to assess current operations, identify growth opportunities, and develop actionable strategies to achieve long-term goals. Consultants assist in financial analysis, budgeting, cash flow management, and identifying areas for cost optimization and revenue enhancement.

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Value flexibility.

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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

Zweig writes that any form of modified profit isn’t cash flow. I get the feeling many people, even in my industry, don’t understand the difference between profit, Ebitda, and cash flow. Medical insurance expense. For more, just Google the terms Warren Buffet and Ebitda.

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China Faces "Minsky Moment" on Ponzi Financing

MishTalk

Work by Nomura’s Chief China Economist indicates that more than half of Local Government Funding Vehicles, which borrow money on behalf of local governments to invest in infrastructure, have insufficient cash flows to pay interest or principal; the exact manifestation of Minsky’s Ponzi finance regime.

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Fraud or Just Marketing

Martinka Consulting

What this means is the owner’s salary, medical insurance, cell phone, car, travel, and more are added to profit because these items are “discretionary” not necessary. Banks factor in a salary figure before they determine cash flow for debt coverage. Rarely is anything straightforward.