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Reverse Factoring Intensifies The B2B Late Payments Debate

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The Big Four auditing firms — EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC — have recently requested that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) provide clarity in how corporates should classify their reverse factoring or supply chain financing agreements, adding more fuel to a long-standing debate as to whether such trade financing tools are debt.

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What is Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)?

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Compliance and Regulation: Financial Planning and Analysis ensures compliance with financial regulations, accounting standards, and reporting requirements. Forecasting: In this stage, Financial Planning and Analysis professionals utilize the gathered data and statistical techniques to develop financial forecasts.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

In this, the first of the data posts for this year, I will describe my data, in terms of geographic spread and industrial breakdown, the variables that I estimate and report on, the choices I make when I analyze data, as well as caveats on best uses and biggest misuses of the data. EBIT & EBITDA multiple s 5.