CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” look at the Monte Carlo simulations, look at what is the hurdle rate. So, now, help us understand how this evolved and where the challenges had come as this was evolving that got you to the point that you had to do some restructuring to make it this. Did things change significantly since we updated the plan?,”

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

In fact, the business life cycle has become an integral part of the corporate finance, valuation and investing classes that I teach, and in many of the posts that I have written on this blog. Tech companies age in dog years, and the consequences for how we manage, value and invest in them are profound.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In this post, I will focus on how companies around the world, and in different sectors, performed on their end game of delivering profits, by first focusing on profitability differences across businesses, then converting profitability into returns, and comparing these returns to the hurdle rates that I talked about in my last data update post.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income. Returns on Invested Capital (or Equity).

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Debt's place in business To understand debt's role in a business, I will start with a big picture perspective, where you break a business down into assets-in-place, i.e., the value of investments it has already made and growth assets, the value of investments you expect it to make in the future. Do companies optimize financing mix?

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