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EBITDA in Financial Analysis

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EBITDA is often used in financial analysis and business valuation because it provides a more standardized and consistent measure of a company's operating performance, especially when comparing companies with different capital structures or when assessing their ability to generate cash from operations.

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Musings on Markets: Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

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Data: Trickle to a Flood! It is perhaps a reflection of my age that I remember when getting data to do corporate financial analysis or valuation was a chore. Much of my focus, when it comes to data, is on company-specific variables, rather than macro economic data, for two reasons.

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The Intangible Valuation Renaissance: Five Methods

CFA Institute

Intangible assets are increasingly critical to corporate value, and new valuation methods need to be deployed to accurately calculate their worth.

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Crafting Strategic Visions with Roger Castle

CFO Talks

His approach involves working backward from desired outcomes, such as an EBITDA goal or exit valuation, and breaking these down into actionable steps and KPIs. He also stressed the importance of monitoring leading indicators, such as sales leads and inventory levels, to address issues before they impact financial performance.

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Where Can FP&A Career Path Take You?

Fpanda Club

FP&A analyst, in turn, is a promising yet developing profession that can be interesting to graduates with finance, statistics, economics or business degrees as well as to finance professionals from adjacent disciplines. Planning, budgeting and forecasting are linked together forming financial planning processes.

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Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics!

Musings on Markets

The other is accounting depreciation , which often has little to do with economic depreciation (value lost from aging), and subject to gaming. Extrapolating, projects and companies with older assets will tend to have overstated accounting returns, as inflation and depreciation lay waste to book values.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

It is perhaps a reflection of my age that I remember when getting data to do corporate financial analysis or valuation was a chore. Thus, without a sense of what comprises a high or low profit margin for a firm, or what the cost of capital is for the typical company, it is easy to create "fairy tale" valuations and analyses.