Future CFO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Declining profitability: For example, are your sales lower or your cost of goods sold higher? Poor interest coverage ratio: This shows operating profits may not be able to cover interest expenses. There is also the natural climate to take into account. Shorten your supply chains and avoid concentration in one geographic region.

Profit and Loss 52

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The last is the operating margin , it operating income (or loss) as a percent of operating income each year. Third, access to c apital from its deep pocketed investors , especially Alibaba, seems to have made this company casual about its business model and profitability, even by young, tech company standards.

Valuation 97

Valuation Profit and Loss Investments Numbers 97

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

New York Times ) see also Retailers Lobby: “We Lied About Organized Theft” The claim that organized retail crime accounted for “nearly half” of inventory losses was false, but it’s also an indictment of modern media. Wired ) • Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

Setting the Stage The notion of a business life cycle is neither new nor original, since versions of it have floated around in management circles for decades, but its applications in finance have been spotty, with some attempts to tie where a company is in the life cycle to its corporate governance and others to accounting ratios.

Corporate Finance 121

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CFO Share

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Monthly account reconciliations are commonly only performed on major GLs, like cash and credit cards. However, you need to reconcile every balance sheet account to a schedule for year-end. Print out a copy and, next to each account, write what schedule you will use. Plan your schedules.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

The biggest winner, and this should come as no surprise, has been technology, with a return of 43% in 2023, and almost entirely recovering its losses in 2022. trillion in the first half of 2023, accounting for almost 80% of the overall increase in equity values at all 6669 publicly traded US equities.

Marketing 98

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The top one percent of musicians account for ninety percent of all music streams and close to sixty percent of revenues from concerts. That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business. With Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime, the game is even more difficult to gauge.

Entertainment 85

Entertainment Profit and Loss Numbers Marketing 85

The Finance Weekly

MAY 29, 2024

A study revealed that inefficiencies in the traditional FP&A role, like manual preparation of P&Ls, balance sheets, and cash flows, lead to an annual economic loss of $6.1 Planful Planful is a cloud-based FP&A software that empowers finance, accounting, and business users with a comprehensive suite of financial applications.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

Planning 130

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was a very interesting time to begin, which I did as an account executive at Shearson. And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. TROPIN: Yeah. No, no, no.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

The reports that have flooded the tech cyber airwaves since Friday have more or less focused on that as its intended killer app — along with the ability to stream video from Amazon Prime in the kitchen while making dinner or, as one news account suggested, asking Amazon’s Alexa to show the kids what a real kid looks like. This is why.

Retail 49

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In summary, coming into 2020, Airbnb was delivering a combination of growth driven by disruption and a pathway to profitability that made them a prime candidate for a public offering. In addition, growth in the experiences business will also push this metric upwards, since Airbnb keeps a 20% share of those revenues.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Valuation Numbers Marketing 52

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. The next question that you alluded to, which is really interesting about revenue and profits, how solid in inflation hedge are equities?

Investments 119

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 119

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year.

Valuation 52

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. Another area where advisor expertise can add value for clients is in the decision-making process surrounding employee stock options or an otherwise concentrated stock position. Retirement Planning.

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It started in 2016 as a brand of the Chartered Institute of Business Accountants (CIBA), which is one of the larger professional bodies in South Africa, with about 10,000 members. I was eager to grow in this area, especially as a general accountant in South Africa. Before we get into that, let me share a bit about CFO Club.

Finance 97

Finance Auditing CFO Leadership 97

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

So the actual source of profitability in that trade is not the level of the vix, but the shape of the vol surface. It’s, it’s double concentrated risk. I don’t know what you’re allowed to talk about, but it’s safe to say this was a big eight or nine figure profit, right? This was a giant win.

Concentration 69

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. He previously worked at a financial planning firm in Bethesda, Maryland, and as a journalist covering the banking and insurance industries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Read more of Adam’s articles here.

Planning 130

Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. In April, Charles Schwab introduced its Schwab Personalized Indexing platform, available to advisors and retail clients with a $100,000 account minimum. He can be reached at [email protected].

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Ukraine is also primarily a natural resource producer, especially iron ore, albeit on a smaller scale.

Economics 130

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Ukraine is also primarily a natural resource producer, especially iron ore, albeit on a smaller scale.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

Future CFO

DECEMBER 18, 2020

We expect Credit and Political Risk Insurance (CPRI) to play an important and increasing role in supporting lenders in mitigating risk, overcoming concentration issues and improving capital adequacy. James Ponsford: Asia and Singapore, in particular, is a commodities hub with commodity trading business accounting to 4.5%

Marketing 52

Marketing Profit and Loss Credit Risk Finance 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Joel Tillinghast : Well, okay, G, when he was six, my grandfather, who was a bookkeeper accountant at a textile mill died and my grandmother was a second string violin at the Providence Symphony Orchestra, which didn’t pay well then, and I suspect didn’t pay well now. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch.

Benchmarking 105

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 105

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And that could be painful, because someone will have to take the pain, even if, unlike 2008, where the risk was concentrated on banks’ balance sheet, today is much more spread across, let’s say, asset managers. And then you, obviously the real estate, many areas that were over-levered at the wrong cost.

Investments 59

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure. As a result, bitcoin mining is concentrated in two countries : China, with 60 percent, and Georgia , with 15 percent of bitcoin processing power. The FBI reports that some $28 million in losses were reported to them in 2016, triple what they say they saw in 2015.

Currencies 71

Currencies Financial Systems Concentration Investments 71

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

They had the access to loss and excel really. I’m not a natural accountant or an actuary. And about 200 put up their hands; ex-bankers, recovering accountants, auditors, actuary, scientists, mathematicians. And I think that’s a loss. That’s fascinating. RITHOLTZ: — to say the very least.

Valuation 119

Valuation Education Numbers Finance 119

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

Marketing 130

Marketing Investments Auditing Profit and Loss 130

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

Investments 100

Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

Blue-collar workers in developed markets : The flip side of the rise of China and other countries as manufacturing hubs, with lower costs of operation, has been the loss of manufacturing clout and jobs for the West, with factory workers in the United States, UK and Europe bearing the brunt of the cost.

Investments 130

Investments Profit and Loss Valuation Economics 130

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. .” Okay, how do I express it? RITHOLTZ: Happens.

Treasury 52

Treasury Retail Economics Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When you write a check, you get check float, it takes time for the checks to come back to the hit the treasury account. And so you had a situation where you could take big positions in the euro dollar market, affect the price and the cash market and actually make a profit. You have a big repo market.

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