The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A study by the University of Baltimore and Excel-based FP&A company, , DataRails , lays out the full economic costs of businesses sticking with manually prepared financial reports. This number represents how much of an economic uplift could occur “if FP&A departments hit a conservative 0.1% Breaking down the Math. billion lost.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 83

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Profit and Loss Budgeting Math 83

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a rift in the relationship between apparel manufacturers and retailers, resulting in lost profits and canceled payments as the economy slogs through the mud, according to The Wall Street Journal. In Bangladesh, jeans maker Denim Expert Ltd.

Manufacturing 60

Manufacturing Profit and Loss Sales Retail 60

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The automobile business has been in trouble for quite a while, struggling with anemic revenue growth in the aggregate, and abysmal profit margins, with even the very best in the group struggling to earn returns that match, let alone beat, their costs of capital.

Valuation 101

Valuation Profit and Loss Manufacturing Investments 101

PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

The worldwide COVID-19 economic crash has sent major automakers’ revenues and profits plunging over a cliff. For its part, Germany’s Volkswagen said on Thursday (July 30) that it had a net loss of $1.9 billion profit in the same time period in 2019, according to The Wall Street Journal. suffered losses as well.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Manufacturing Sales Forecasting 52

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 10, 2022

LAW was led by a Civil War officer named Albert Augustus Pope, who happened to have gotten in on the fad for cycling in a big way—he manufactured bicycles. When good-quality roads became commercially important, profit-seeking firms were there to provide them. Cycling would be much more enjoyable if our rutted roads were improved.

Construction 130

Construction Profit and Loss Treasury Economics 130

CFO Talks

AUGUST 21, 2024

IFRS 9 Financial Instruments: Managing Expected Credit Losses IFRS 9 introduced the concept of expected credit losses (ECL), which means companies must recognise potential credit losses earlier, based on a forward-looking model. CFOs must ensure stakeholders understand this shift and its implications for financial statements.

IFRS 52

IFRS Profit and Loss Communication Credit Risk 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Manufacturing, mining, wholesale and retail trade, and transportation and warehousing saw little change in employment for the month, the BLS said. From December to January, retail trade noted a loss of 8,300 jobs — a month after the December holiday hiring season. Payroll services firm ADP Inc.

Retail 60

Retail Profit and Loss Manufacturing Construction 60

Spreadym

JULY 19, 2023

The three main types of financial statements are: Income Statement (Profit and Loss Statement) Balance Sheet (Statement of Financial Position) Cash Flow Statement Income Statement (Profit and Loss Statement) The income statement summarizes a company's revenues, expenses, and profits or losses over a specific period, typically quarterly or annually.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Investments Finance Sales 52

CFO Talks

JUNE 20, 2022

Resiliency is the foundation for all business models, says Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, in an article published by The World Economic Forum. As businesspeople, this offers us an opportunity: an opportunity to rethink our business models so that resiliency, profitability, and sustainability are not mutually exclusive.”.

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Profit and Loss Manufacturing SAP 52

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

While it is just one quarter, there are clear signs of more slowing to come, as scaling will continue to push revenue growth down, the unit economics will be pressured as chip manufacturers (TSMC) push for a larger slice and operating margins will decrease, as competition increases.

Marketing 134

Marketing Valuation Profit and Loss Forecasting 134

Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

The primary attraction of the company, to investors, comes not from its current standing (modest revenues and big losses), but from its positioning to take advantage of the potential growth in the Indian food delivery market. There are, however, other facts about the unit economics that lend to optimism on the story.

Marketing 99

Marketing Valuation Profit and Loss Advertising 99

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook’s most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022. .

Marketing 130

Marketing Advertising Profit and Loss Investments 130

PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Uber Eats, facing losses and stiffening competition from both Grubhub and DoorDash, is changing its leadership and reorienting its efforts around profitability. Uber, Walmart and every other firm that is making plans for big change in the first half of this year, however, has an economic black swan to shoo from its path first.

Marketing 56

Marketing Profit and Loss eCommerce Leadership 56

Future CFO

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

While M&A value dropped dramatically in 2022, a loss of 36% in deal value, Bain’s report confirms that deal activity continues to be a central corporate strategy for growth and profitability. The largest drops came among deals for Technology and Healthcare & Life Sciences assets, the firm pointed out.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Profit and Loss Healthcare Valuation 52

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It extends into materiality, by reframing that concept in terms of value, rather than profits, and connecting it to disclosure, with disclosure requirements increasing proportionately with the value effect. One size (does not) fit all!

Profit and Loss 96

Profit and Loss Accounting Numbers Valuation 96

Future CFO

JUNE 7, 2021

China's (A1 stable) economic rebound has strengthened and become more broad-based since the beginning of 2021, said Moody's recently. Output losses due to the pandemic led to a jump in economy-wide leverage in 2020, and a plunge in capital productivity, the firm added.

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss Leverage Manufacturing Economics 40

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

During the course of the year, investors also rediscovered that the essence of business is not growing revenues or adding users, but making profits from that growth. In this post, I will focus on trend lines in profitability at companies in 2022, with the intent of addressing multiple questions.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Investments Hurdle Rate Accounting 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2016

corporation among those currently building out their ranks of retail employees may be allocating a greater amount of funds to wages in the short term towards the goal of increased profits in the long term, that might not necessarily be the case. While it’s reasonable to presume that any U.S. And while the number of retail jobs in the U.S.

Retail 40

Retail Manufacturing Profit and Loss Financial Analyst 40

Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

Lending rates followed central bank tightening moves, while deposit rates lagged; and across the region, there were some record profits. In Japan, profits at the country’s five most prominent banking groups leapt 56% to a record ¥2 trillion (about $12.6 billion after-tax profit versus $8.3 billion; a 2.3% billion in 2022.

Banking 52

Banking Profit and Loss Construction Retail 52

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

was largely an economy driven by manufacturing; nowadays we’re primarily a service economy. That fundamental issue, tied to the economic realities test applied under the Fair Labor Standards Act, may get an airing as the current case wends its way through the courts. “A Eighty years can do a lot to change an economy.

Profit and Loss 64

Profit and Loss Manufacturing Economics Numbers 64

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

According to internal anonymous sources, loan losses stood at about 9 percent of outstanding balances on Walmart cards as of this past spring — meaning Synchrony was reluctant to meet those terms. We fully expect Synchrony to manufacture counterclaims in an effort to shift the focus away from its own conduct.”.

Profit and Loss 46

Profit and Loss Manufacturing Retail Economics 46

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook's most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022.

Advertising 105

Advertising Profit and Loss Investments Marketing 105

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

According to Frey, the current economic climate is particularly affected by sudden policy shifts that may not necessarily be rooted in sound economic fundamentals. It dovetails into pricing decisions — how to price products and services you ultimately sell to end customers — or where and how you negotiate contracts as a manufacturer.

Currencies 53

Currencies Foreign Exchange Risk Management Profit and Loss 53

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

Not surprisingly, the operating metrics change as companies age, with high revenue growth accompanied by big losses (from work-in-progress business models) and large reinvestment needs (to delivery future growth) in early-stage companies to large profits and free cash flows in the mature phase to stresses on growth and margins in decline.

Corporate Finance 121

Corporate Finance Valuation Investments Finance 121

Global Finance

MAY 10, 2024

Manufacturing shows promising signs of recovery while nearshoring and friendshoring in new markets are becoming stronger trends. Greenfield project announcements dipped 6% in number but grew by 6% in value, driven in part by more encouraging numbers in the manufacturing sector. At an estimated $1.37

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Manufacturing Profit and Loss Investments 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When scanned, the barcodes provide information about where a product was manufactured, lot numbers, authorized distributors and safe use.”. Not only that, but in a report from earlier this year , the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that trading of pirated and counterfeit goods has risen significantly.

Pharmaceutical 40

Pharmaceutical Profit and Loss Manufacturing Sales 40

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When scanned, the barcodes provide information about where a product was manufactured, lot numbers, authorized distributors and safe use.”. Not only that, but in a report from earlier this year , the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that trading of pirated and counterfeit goods has risen significantly.

Pharmaceutical 40

Pharmaceutical Profit and Loss Manufacturing Sales 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Mary’s has endured a century’s worth of economic challenges since its founding, including the Great Depression and the 1935 bankruptcy and shuttering of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, a textile firm that served as a significant economic engine for the Greater Manchester area in the early 20th century.

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss Economics Banking Construction 40

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

12), the coronavirus that started in China’s Wuhan — now officially named COVID-19 — claimed its latest economic victim. For many small business owners in China, the outbreak has been far from profitable. As the newsday ended on Wednesday (Feb. The annual Mobile World Conference (MWC), scheduled in Barcelona for Feb. 24 through Feb.

Profit and Loss 57

Profit and Loss Economics Retail Manufacturing 57

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

Canadian companies are less optimistic, however, about the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and Europe), and Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreements. jobs data are all affecting the currency, but that strong economic performance in the country is a good sign.

Marketing 40

Marketing Profit and Loss Currencies Benchmarking 40

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

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

Planful

APRIL 16, 2021

Planful’s Total Economic Impact study showed that the benefits of cloud-based services extend to financial planning and analysis (FP&A). A survey by Cielo Talent even revealed “a correlation between investing in a Talent Acquisition function and increasing profits by up to 20%.” ” Customer Experience.

Prioritization 40

Prioritization Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Profit and Loss 40

Planful

JANUARY 11, 2022

And as the economic recovery continues and business operations slowly return to normal, the digital surge shows no signs of slowing down. Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that, since AI can lead companies to become more profitable, companies can then hire more employees.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Profit and Loss Reconciliations 40

CFO Talks

DECEMBER 26, 2021

So that you will eventually have the CFO focusing on three reporting areas, the traditional IFRS, then secondly, business efficiencies, and then because of the difficult economic circumstances we are in, the only way that you can still maintain the bottom line is through better efficiencies. The last one is then climate change.

CFO 40

CFO Profit and Loss Finance Accounting 40

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

So, so let’s talk a little bit about your, your background ba in economics from Dartmouth. We hope that we can invest behind and see stability so that there won’t be a loss of capital 00:28:00 [Speaker Changed] And, and above average GDP 00:28:02 [Speaker Changed] Growth. For diversity is profitable for investors.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 69

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Valuation Numbers 69

CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

Paccar — Shares of Paccar rose 7% after the truck manufacturer reported fourth-quarter results, posting a profit of $2.64 3M — Shares of the industrial conglomerate slid more than 5% to hit a new 52-week low after the company said it would cut 2,500 manufacturing jobs amid a demand slowdown. per share and $8.13

Profit and Loss 130

Profit and Loss Manufacturing Marketing Economics 130

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We’ll get to where you work at JP Morgan, but economics bachelor’s from Columbia MBA from Harvard. So I decided to become an economics major and a psychology minor. So the intersection of psychology and economics became really interesting. Christine Philpots. 00:01:37 [Speaker Changed] Thank you for having me.

Investments 59

Investments Economics Marketing Benchmarking 59