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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences

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Accounting 101. I am not an accountant, and have no desire to be one, but I have used their output (accounting statements) as raw material in valuation and corporate finance. Exploration costs at natural resource companies, since even if successful, the reserves found will not add to revenues or income until years into the future.

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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 1: Corporate Governance

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billion, but it generated an operating margin of 47.3%, with its online advertising model. The company’s contention was that the decline was driven by a slowing down in online advertising revenues at the firm, mirroring similar slowdowns at other online advertising platforms.

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Data Update 7 for 2025: The End Game in Business!

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I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet.

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META Lesson 1: Corporate Governance

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billion, but it generated an operating margin of 47.3%, with its online advertising model. The company's contention was that the decline was driven by a slowing down in online advertising revenues at the firm, mirroring similar slowdowns at other online advertising platforms.

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META Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences

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Accounting 101 I am not an accountant, and have no desire to be one, but I have used their output (accounting statements) as raw material in valuation and corporate finance. In sum, though, capitalizing R&D and the Metaverse investments is a good idea, whether you are an optimist or pessimist about the company.

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Alternative Financing Comes Of Age

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For a flat fee or subscription, direct marketplace lenders facilitate all elements of the transaction, including collecting borrower applications, assigning credit ratings, advertising the loan request, pairing borrowers with interested investors, originating the loan and servicing any collected loan payments.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

Barry Ritholtz

Heather Brilliant : I worked at Bank of America and, and they had a wonderful corporate finance training program. Barry Ritholtz: The old, the old joke, half of our advertising dollars are wasted. Barry Ritholtz: Huh, really, really interesting. So what was your first job out of undergraduate?