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How to Calculate Your Profitability: A Case Study

CFO Simplified

As Iowa State University reminds us, “profitability is the primary goal of all business ventures.”. Business leadership is often responsible for measuring current, past, and future profitability. But what is profitability? This CFO Simplified client watched profitability slowly disappear—until they incurred a $125,000 loss.

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The Future of Finance and Sustainability with Elizabeth Burns

CFO Talks

. “We’ve had a 40% reduction in carbon dioxide, an 80% reduction in nitrogen oxide, and a near 100% reduction in particulates,” she shared during the CFO Club podcast, emphasizing the tangible impact of GDC’s clean energy initiatives on Cameroon’s manufacturing sector. Our last two wells cost over $100 million,” she noted.

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Inventory Management in Manufacturing

VCFO

How Attention to Inventory Can Make or Break Manufacturers A major factor in determining the success of a manufacturer is how well it manages its inventory. When manufacturers have too little inventory, they can’t fully meet customer demands and lose out on revenue as a result.

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Return on Equity Formula and Use Cases

The Finance Weekly

Return on Equity (ROE) is one of those go-to metrics that financial leaders and investors love to use when figuring out how well a company turns shareholders' equity into profits. At its core, ROE measures how efficiently a company uses its net assets (shareholders' equity) to generate profit. What Is Return on Equity (ROE)?

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Foot Locker, JD.com, Gap and others

CFO News Room

in premarket trading after an unexpected return to profitability and better-than-expected sales. Williams-Sonoma reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its latest quarter. Farfetch (FTCH) – Farfetch reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss with sales that also came in below analyst forecasts. Shares gained 4.4%

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Zscaler, Marvell, DoorDash and more

CFO News Room

Asana – Shares of the work management platform operator plunged about 11% after the company reported a loss for the most recent quarter, though it was narrower than expected. PagerDuty – Shares of the IT company rose more than 7% after it reported a slight profit for the third quarter, beating analysts’ expectations of a loss.

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Stocks moving big midday: PTON, AMD, SNAP

CFO News Room

The retailer could see upside to expected profit in 2024 and 2025 as its strategic plan takes shape, according to the firm. Peloton’s net loss was also the narrowest since the fiscal fourth quarter of 2021. Brinker International — Shares of the restaurant stock recouped its earlier losses and slid 0.5%