CFO Simplified

APRIL 15, 2022

There are many elements involved in developing and manufacturing products for a customer. In fact, most of a company’s concentrated efforts go to the creation of what they’re going to sell, and with good reason. Some change their source of supply because deliveries of raw materials can’t get to the manufacturing plant.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Concentration CFO Strategic Planning 52

CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

While based in Bologna, we’ll visit car manufacturers like Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Ducati as part of a mini-MBA program. Past tours have led to real business deals, such as when one of our members signed a distribution agreement with a Mexican car parts manufacturer. There will also be trips to Florence, Venice, and possibly Milan.

Finance 97

Finance Auditing CFO Leadership 97

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

In the manufacturing-centered twentieth century, it took decades for companies like GE and Ford to scale up, but they also stayed at the top for long periods, before declining over decades. Advice on concentrating your portfolio and having a margin of safety, both value investing nostrums, may work with the former but not with the latter.

Corporate Finance 99

Corporate Finance Valuation Investments Finance 99

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Value of Intangible Assets Accounting has historically done a poor job dealing with intangible assets, and as the economy has transitioned away from a manufacturing-dominated twentieth century to the technology and services focused economy of the twenty first century, that failure has become more apparent.

Valuation 107

Valuation Profit and Loss Accounting Investments 107

The Finance Weekly

JULY 14, 2024

It extends beyond conventional budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes which usually span a year, and concentrates mainly on financial goals and key initiatives that are 5-10 years or more into the future. Manufacturing – zeroes in on equipment, machinery acquisitions, upkeep, and production floor needs to align with the LRP vision.

Planning 52

Planning Leadership Budgeting Financial Analyst 52

PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

All in, the company sells over 35 SKUs of skincare and bath and body products that are “formulated with pure, active, highly concentrated vitamins, minerals and botanicals.”. It’s still there today, and the number of stores carrying Herbivore goods has increased remarkably, though they are still mainly a DTC brand.

Concentration 43

Concentration Manufacturing Leverage Marketing 43

CFO Simplified

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Utility companies for electricity, water, and natural gas used in the manufacturing process. Business owners usually concentrate on things like selling, strategic business development, new products, making sure orders ship on time, and keeping customers happy. Included are large, critical payments to: Raw material suppliers.

Accounts Payable 52

Accounts Payable Invoicing Risk Management Accounting 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

Last week, was my data week, where I download and analyze data on all publicly traded companies, listed anywhere in the world, and I will post extensively on what the numbers look like after a most tumultuous year. As we approach the turn of the calendar year, I have my own set of rituals that prepare me for the new year.

Valuation 52

Valuation Corporate Finance Finance Investments 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Bernstein told Webster that Freebird has been implemented across a wide range of companies – from the Fortune 500 to relatively small start-ups – and across a wide variety of verticals, including education, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and technology. “If So, we’ve concentrated our resources here.”. So, how does it work?

Pharmaceutical 45

Pharmaceutical Education Concentration Numbers 45

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

The Swiss Army knife’s manufacturing process is said to be so meticulous that only one in 10,000 knives is ever returned. Despite the robust job numbers reported last week by the U.S. Brands will develop one over time as Amazon hones its manufacturing capabilities and becomes a private-label competitor.

Retail 49

Retail Profit and Loss Sales Manufacturing 49

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They run long short across each of these, and they’ve put up some pretty impressive numbers over the past couple of years. 00:21:47 [Speaker Changed] And a lot of funds that have found success seem to have run some pretty concentrated portfolios. 00:22:29 [Speaker Changed] So less concentrated exposure.

Healthcare 65

Healthcare Investments Construction Concentration 65

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. But that means if you’re in a company that, at the end of the day, manufactures product, the people in those groups tend to be people that move a lot of the product because that’s the business of the company.

Planning 130

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

” Who are the number one users of TurboTax? And you see that in the numbers, right? You have half the number of public companies that you had in 2000. JOHNSON: And so, and the manufacturer had less power. RITHOLTZ: And we end up, you know, importing a decent number of engineers from the best Indian schools.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 89

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 89

PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2016

I laid out my thesis last week , with respect to Apple’s struggles, by giving you my take on why Apple seems to now play fast and loose with the numbers. The latest Nielsen study tells us that most people only use 27 of them – and concentrate 80 percent of their activity in five – Facebook, Google Play, Google Search, YouTube and Messenger.

Sales 42

Sales Retail Leverage Concentration 42

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number. billion dollars in AUM.

Investments 65

Investments Marketing Numbers Risk Management 65

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

At present, just four manufacturers control 84% of the hearing-aid market, according to the Open Markets Institute, a think tank critical of corporate concentration. The reason, analysts say, is federal and state rules that compel manufacturers to sell through medical professionals. SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS. Why or why not?

Concentration 130

Concentration Profit and Loss Manufacturing Marketing 130

PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

“These health and safety kits were sourced and developed with several third-party manufacturers, in consultation with medical and infectious disease experts,” the company said. Instacart also instituted a monthly bonus plan ranging from $25 to $200, based on the number of hours worked. The kits include masks and hand sanitizer.

Concentration 72

Concentration Manufacturing Startups Numbers 72

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

There’s Saunders is not spelled with a z There’s no numbers added to it. If 00:34:44 [Speaker Changed] You, so wait, gimme those numbers again. You still get these, you know, cap driven concentration problems in the market like last year. But, but the big ones he really nailed. But it’s still a must read.

Investments 59

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 59

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And then I left there and joined a number of my colleagues from Drexel and launched a business that as it turns out, was pretty much a carbon copy of the business we have today. And fortunately for us, there were a number of large scale alternative asset managers, like Carlyle, that were looking to grow in private credit.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 59

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Banking 59

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2024

labor market :The employment losses were locally concentrated, leading to devastating outcomes for a number of factory towns and their workers. They not only shifted their activities away from manufacturing and into design and services but also reallocated employees to new workplaces within the same firm.(

Concentration 59

Concentration Construction Manufacturing Finance 59

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. So, so you choose a number of specific industries or did you choose them? RITHOLTZ: Wild number.

Treasury 52

Treasury Retail Economics Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition to being a portfolio manager and running a number of mutual funds and ETFs, he is just a world-class technology investor who understands the sector like few other people do. So that was my first entree in seeing the diversity of, of the manufacturing base in this country. And you want to get every, every number right?

Technology 52

Technology Investments Numbers Concentration 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And they essentially take companies as varied as tire manufacturers and industrial producers and retailers, and find intelligent ways to use technology to make these companies more efficient, more productive, more profitable. The parallels are that there is a concentration of interest. They had good year over year numbers.

Technology 52

Technology Manufacturing Investments Education 52

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clay maintained that import tariffs could be used to give American manufacturers a leg up over European goods, while also cultivating “infant industries” that he deemed to be in the young nation’s strategic interests. He is also co-host of the Words & Numbers podcast. How Clay’s Tariffs Gave Us the Income Tax. .;

Economics 130

Economics Education Planning Manufacturing 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

This could be explained by several factors including insufficient concentration, improper formulation and/or amount of PVP-I, inadequate duration of exposure, inappropriate method of administration, and mucociliary clearance of PVP-I from the nasal cavity. The NY Empire State Manufacturing Index sank to -32.9 As aforementioned, 0.45–10%

Concentration 130

Concentration Economics Manufacturing Numbers 130

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

If you’re the paint manufacturer in California needing a drum of chemicals that’s stuck in Washington state, and now you gotta tell your customers you’re late with the order, that doesn’t seem particularly efficient. Whatever your revenue is, is divided by a smaller number. 00:15:18 [Speaker Changed] Love it.

Manufacturing 104

Manufacturing Economics Numbers Entertainment 104