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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. The team has to know what’s priority number one. billion thanks to concentrating on MHI’s key competencies.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

During the dotcom bubble, the financial crisis, and the real estate bubble, what did consulting firms do? If the firms don’t have a strong balance sheet, if they foresee a potential cash flow problem, or if they have clients in particularly hard hit industries, I’d be concerned. Three prior downturns, what can we learn?

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Housing Starts in China Plunge 25%; Did China's Property Bubble Finally Burst?

MishTalk

You can’t predict how the bursting of a Chinese real estate bubble plays out because it plays out in very small steps,” said Joel H. Rothstein, a partner in the Beijing office of the Paul Hastings law firm who specializes in Asian real estate. Here we are again, in another slowdown.

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Winning Isn’t Everything: The Art of Playing Well

Tom Spencer

Michael Porter: Focus on creating value Professor Michael Porter, a leading authority on competitive strategy , has emphasised that the true measure of success for a company is not just its quarterly financial performance, but also how those results are attained. One example of Buffett’s approach is his investment in Coca-Cola.

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Financial Shenanigans Versus Incompetence

Martinka Consulting

Sometimes it’s because they’d sooner “play” with their product than worry about the numbers and often it’s because they’re doing so well it becomes “management by checkbook,” as in, there’s plenty of money so who cares about cash flow, metrics, etc.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. Mish and Eric King discuss Gold, the Stock Market, the US Dollar, Sideline Cash, China, and US real estate.

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AAA – Not to the Rescue

Martinka Consulting

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. Some of these adjustments are easily justifiable, such as adjusting the owner’s salary to market rate or if the seller owns the real estate and pays more than market rent.