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! If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. Before we get started.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

For PE firms, cash flow, EBITDA, and low cap ex are very important.” Cash flow – one of my rules for both business buyers and sellers is, “Cash (and cash flow) is King.” ” Small businesses need timely cash flow. It’s like, “Well duh!”

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

APRIL 13, 2023

How do you valuate a small business?

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 26, 2013

LAST post, I highlighted the importance of strategy when considering the viability of a potential acquisition; however, before a final decision can be made, a consultant needs to estimate the value of the target company. Valuation of discounted expected future cash flows. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

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Tom Spencer

MAY 24, 2024

Diversify Revenue Streams One fundamental strategy for business resilience is to diversify revenue streams. 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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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Do you have the mindset and strategies you need to create a thriving consulting or coaching business so you can reach your full potential in your career and life? Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with Ann Carden, a highly successful consultant and fellow mentor to other consultants.

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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. How to use the Mergers and Acquisitions framework: Remember, most interviews are going to be focused in on due diligence strategy as to whether or not one company should buy another. Is it growing?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2020

CEOs experiencing negative cash flow need to act fast.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Activist investors challenge management strategies. Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow. Corporate governance issues are constantly in the headlines.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

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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CaseInterview.com

JULY 20, 2022

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. Did bitcoin holders receive a lot more in monthly cash flow? At first glance, this is an incredible return on investment.

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The ready access to low-cost capital should change the way business leaders think about strategy, and in particular the relative value of improving profit margins versus accelerating growth. When capital costs are high, strategies that expand margins are almost always better than strategies that accelerate growth. Related Video.

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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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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

More stable cash flows are attractive for three reasons. Secondly, a strong cash position can also be used to extend credit to customers and thereby increase sales. Business Strategy. Firstly, they can be used to negotiate more favourable credit terms with banks. Graduate Consulting Group. Categories. Select Category.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 17, 2014

Cash flow analysis shows Greece is in serious trouble again in spite of having a current account surplus. Greece Bailout Cash Flow Even this game is in trouble now as Greek Cash Flow Charts show. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. Some companies have great ideas, great management teams, and compelling strategies.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2015

Net Present Value: The NPV of an investment is the present value of the series of expected future cash flows generated by the investment minus the cost of the initial investment. Where r = discount rate; CFt = expected cash flow in year t; CFn = expected cash flow in final year; g = long term cash flow growth rate.

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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. It is silly to think that a one-size-fits-all national strategy is the right approach for a market as ethnically and economically diverse as the United States. It didn’t work.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

As a result, many consultants shift to industry and join the client’s side so that they can not only offer solutions but also take more ownership to formulate, execute, and implement a strategy from start to finish. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. Corporate Strategy. What is corporate strategy?

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 2, 2013

If we look at the evolution of the cash flow of borrowed money, the net change in assets is a decrease is 4.7%. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' Credit in Spain continues to show signs of weakness, year and a half after the Troika bailout.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 4, 2009

Uniteds fuel hedging strategy has all the marks of some smooth-talking consultants or bankers. The Company’s cash flows and results of operations have been adversely impacted by these factors as indicated by its net loss of $5.3 Just buying the calls would have been a much better (if more cash intensive up front) strategy.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

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. In addition, learn how to create strategy presentations with PowerPoint, learn new data-driven software programs, or a new foreign language.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2018

Good Strategy Execution. There is not really any secret to good strategy execution…it’s really just a matter of applying some good common sense. But you’d be surprised at how many companies fail to succeed at strategy implementation of even very well crafted corporate strategies. 90% Failure Strategy Execution Rate.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online. We see four broad strategies that traditional banks could pursue to compete or collaborate with emerging online players—and in some cases do both simultaneously. Lending to small and medium-sized businesses is ready to move online.

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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. By placing upper and lower bounds on price volatility, producers can count on a more certain cash flow. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

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MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2014

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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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. So how can we run a profitable business? In this article, I want to stick to income ideas.

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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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

demand from small and medium-size sedans to to light trucks and SUVs and the long-term need for GM to make the transition to electric and self-driving cars, I think that GM is smart to act now while its cash flow can sustain the shutdown of these facilities and reinvestment in new products. Given the shift in immediate U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Chaos ensued.

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MishTalk

MAY 27, 2014

The stimulus is a centerpiece of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe''s campaign to end two decades of deflation and fitful growth, and BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has vowed to keep cheap cash flowing until his 2 percent inflation target is in plain sight.

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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.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Utilization goals must strike a balance between short-term revenue targets and long-term considerations to avoid burnout or underutilization, which can lead to cash flow issues. Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth Tracking year-over-year (YoY) revenue growth evaluates the effectiveness of strategies, processes, and technologies.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 15, 2021

5G networks are a promising wireless technology that online bookmakers and sports betting operators should factor into their business strategy. The onus is on online bookmakers and sports betting operators to incorporate 5G technology into business strategy in order to improve their services and make sports betting more enjoyable.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In his latest Global Strategy Report , Albert Edwards at Societe Generale discusses " earnings season " which he calls " cheating season ". Is there a growing divergence between net income and operating cash-flow? Management has less flexibility to alter cash flow, whereas earnings can be stuffed for all sorts of "funnies".

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