Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In sports and entertainment, for instance, business can gain value from having a celebrity representing them in a paid or unpaid capacity. At the other end, an entertainment software company like Take-Two Interactive is only as good as its latest game or product, and success can be fleeting.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

A Life Cycle View If you have been reading my posts for a while, you know that I find the corporate life cycle a useful device in explaining everything from what companies should focus on, in corporate finance, to the balance between stories and numbers, when investor value companies.

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Bramasol

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Bramasol team already has extensive hands-on experience implementing QTC and RevRec solutions across many different industries, including media & entertainment , transportation , semiconductors , medical , energy , electronics manufacturing , software & SaaS , telecom and more.

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Global Finance

JULY 24, 2024

Paramount Global, one of the world’s oldest entertainment companies, agreed in July to merge with Skydance—a smaller, newer and more tech-oriented media company. With the acquisition, century-old Paramount gets a younger owner, much-needed cash and most likely a profitable streaming service. Hold on and rewind.

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 2, 2023

He joined Spanx in April from MGA Entertainment, where he had been serving as CFO. Prior to becoming CFO in 2009, Thomas held the positions of Corporate Comptroller and Head of Corporate Finance at Hasbro. Jones has been with the company for 15 years and was appointed CFO in 2016.

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Bramasol

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Bramasol team already has extensive hands-on experience implementing QTC and RevRec solutions across many different industries, including media & entertainment , transportation , semiconductors , medical , energy , electronics manufacturing , software & SaaS , telecom and more.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

The analytics are aligned with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, NICE Actimize said, allowing the company to analyze travel expenses, gifts and entertainment expenditure to identify potential evidence of bribery or corruption.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2016

Initially, he said, travel to Cuba will be tourism-related as consumers entertain their curiosity about the country. But, said Seleski , “there’s no question” that corporate payments by U.S. company executives to travel to and from Cuba, taking their corporate finances with them.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 1, 2023

Prior to that, she served as the vice president of finance at Indigo and held financial and strategic leadership positions at Maple Leaf Foods and Bombardier Aerospace. Sinha joined the company in November 2021 as the senior vice president of corporate finance and strategy. Rowe Price, an asset management firm.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather Brilliant : I worked at Bank of America and, and they had a wonderful corporate finance training program. Starting with what’s been keeping you entertained these days? Barry Ritholtz: Huh, really, really interesting. So what was your first job out of undergraduate? What are you watching or listening to?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

But the other takeaway that I think is interesting is like, just from the corporate finance side, I think like there are some companies where they were like, we’re gonna make our like investor relations and corporate finance strategy be about retail investors. What’s keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I went into what’s called corporate finance, what people would see now as sort of M&A department. CHANCELLOR: Well, I was actually in a sort of subgroup there, which was called corporate strategy. But I didn’t last very long there because I thought I didn’t like corporate finance.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

To illustrate, what business would you put Apple, a company that was categorized (rightly) as a computer hardware company 40 years ago, but that now gets more than 60% of its revenues and profits from the iPhone, a telecommunication device that is also a hub for entertainment and services?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

To illustrate, what business would you put Apple, a company that was categorized (rightly) as a computer hardware company 40 years ago, but that now gets more than 60% of its revenues and profits from the iPhone, a telecommunication device that is also a hub for entertainment and services?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

In my corporate finance class, I describe all decisions that companies make as falling into one of three buckets – investing decisions, financing decision and dividend decisions. Financing Flows 5. Is Apple a personal computer company, an entertainment company or wireless telecom company? Default Spreads 3.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The merger creates Indias largest media and entertainment company, featuring more than 100 television channels and producing more than 30,000 hours of television content annually. The deal enhances Reliances position as the major shareholder in Indias $28 billion media and entertainment sector. billion joint venture. Owned by Mukesh D.

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Global Finance

MARCH 1, 2025

Discovery, and Lionsgate Entertainment, to name a fewhave started spending ad dollars again on X. X is also amplifying right-leaning content, as shown by separate studies by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Adweek reports that various companiesIBM, Disney, Warner Bros.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 14, 2025

He said, Brian, if you think about finance as an org chart, real estate is like one of the divisions and if you start in real estate, it’s hard to move up and go to other divisions and, and try other things out. You should really learn corporate finance and you can always switch to real estate if you wanted to.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

So you discuss on how all this adds up to a puzzle of corporate finance that you enjoy untangling. It’s not corporate finance. I tell people if I wasn’t teaching valuation and corporate finance, I’d be teaching high school algebra. It’s the entertainment value. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

He was a corporate finance person. What’s keeping you entertained? MORGENSON: Drexel collapsed. RITHOLTZ: Which arguably he didn’t have anything to do with. That was mostly Milken’s issue. MORGENSON: No, he was not in the junk bond area. He was raising money for these companies. MORGENSON: What am I streaming?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It all gives a very corporate finance addition to my macroeconomic thinking. And that was and continues to be the main significant attraction that I find so exciting about my job naming that is combining the macro world with the corporate finance and the deal team world in private credit and private equity.

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