Barry Ritholtz

JULY 19, 2023

My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • Is Rolex a Non-Profit? The Federal Reserve chair spent the early pandemic bemoaning the loss of a strong job market. Wagner began his career doing hedge fund accounting at Ernst & Young. Answers to Your Burning Questions About the Rolex Watch Company. Can He Keep It?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2016

Blowing around last week was the revelation that Uber is good at lots of things, but as of yet, turning a profit isn’t quite one of them. Uber: Lots Of Patrons, Still Looking For A Profit. Gupta has reportedly told investors that second quarter losses are up, even in the U.S., where the firm reported a Q1 profit.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Online shopping fraud reports include complaints about items that are never delivered or are not as they were advertised. In addition, millennials are more likely to report fraud losses on scams that promise to fix debt-related problems or that promise money through jobs, investments or business opportunities.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

By most accounts it has been a better than good week for the team at Wayfair. The online home goods retailer also beat out earnings per share estimates by $0.10, posting a loss of $0.48 That Lingering Profit Problem. They are showing no path toward profitability whatsoever,” Left said. eps for the Q1 2017 quarter.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 4, 2024

Cash Flow Management Tips to Apply to Your Business Problem 1: Misreading Cash Flow and Profit Cash flow is about tracking how money moves in and out of a business. Profit, however, is what's left over after you take away all the costs from what you earn. If that happens, selling them at a loss can hurt the business financially.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

You won’t make much, a few dollars here and there, but you can create a free account and get started within minutes. They make it easy to create an account and answer survey questions. Selling 20 books per month with a profit of $7 per book would net you $140 per month and $1,680 per year. How much can you earn writing eBooks?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For investment advisers looking to attract prospective clients, advertising the performance of their investment strategies would be a logical way to market their services (at least if they had strong historical returns!). Two final prohibitions under the Marketing Rule include restrictions on the use of predecessor performance (e.g.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Experts estimate that total fraud losses in 2018 totaled $3.9 Fraud takes many forms, from account takeover attacks to identity theft. It’s also one of the most prevalent, with advertisers expected to lose more than $5.8 Now, developers can be held accountable for ad fraud. trillion, an increase of 49.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Online shopping fraud reports include complaints about items that are never delivered or are not as they were advertised. In addition, millennials are more likely to report fraud losses on scams that promise to fix debt-related problems or that promise money through jobs, investments or business opportunities.

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Cube Software

MAY 10, 2023

It is important to accurately track and report unearned revenue, so you can properly manage profit margins. Accruals and prepayment: Unearned revenue explained In accrual accounting, revenue is recognized when it’s earned. What if I use cash basis accounting? What are deferred expenses?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

trillion in market cap, accounting for all of the recovery in US stocks during that period. It is worth noting, though, that Facebook’s loss of half a million users in the most recent quarter may have been more attributable to Apple tightening privacy protections on its devices than government action.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

Twitter ’s revenue growth continued in the first quarter of 2018, with its investments in personalized content and video advertising helping the social media company to beat analyst estimates. Our machine learning efforts continue to benefit advertisers as we continue to refine our targeting and ad-matching capabilities.”. In the U.S.,

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

trillion in market cap, accounting for all of the recovery in US stocks during that period. It is worth noting, though, that Facebook’s loss of half a million users in the most recent quarter may have been more attributable to Apple tightening privacy protections on its devices than government action.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

That accounts for 2.3 For eCommerce, Americans spend about $617 a year in the electronics and appliance categories, which accounts for the highest percentage of spend at 23.3 That means it doesn’t fit into Walmart’s everyday low price model – but it does fit Amazon, which doesn’t have to use it as a loss leader.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The customer gets a reloadable prepaid card that functionally behaves much like a debit card attached to a real checking account, and the card is also paired up with a slick digital app. Prepaid cards , generally speaking, weren’t profitable (minus fees) unless the customer enrolled in direct deposit with the card.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

That figure, from MKM Partners, was indeed based in large part on the ongoing success of Amazon Web Services, the company’s profitable cloud computing arm. Global losses were $385 million, compared to $936 million at this time last year. Another potential bright spot for Amazon going forward is advertising. That’s not all.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

trillion in market cap, accounting for all of the recovery in US stocks during that period. It is worth noting, though, that Facebook's loss of half a million users in the most recent quarter may have been more attributable to Apple tightening privacy protections on its devices than government action.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The customer gets a reloadable prepaid card that functionally behaves much like a debit card attached to a real checking account, and the card is also paired up with a slick digital app. Prepaid cards , generally speaking, weren’t profitable (minus fees) unless the customer enrolled in direct deposit with the card.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 10, 2022

What Types of Accounts are Best for Compounding? Banks Savings Accounts. Most savings accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit earn compound interest. Taxable vs. tax-deferred vs. tax-free accounts. It’s also possible to take advantage of tax-free accounts. 3) Money Market Accounts.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

AMC said the service, an extension of the company’s loyalty program, has accounted for about 1 million admissions, or roughly 4 percent of attendance at U.S. MoviePass, for all its problems, is persistent, noting that it accounts for 6 percent of all domestic movie tickets.

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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. .

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In summary, coming into 2020, Airbnb was delivering a combination of growth driven by disruption and a pathway to profitability that made them a prime candidate for a public offering. In addition, growth in the experiences business will also push this metric upwards, since Airbnb keeps a 20% share of those revenues.

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Future CFO

JULY 13, 2020

Indonesia media company PT Media Nusantara Citra (MNC) has seen a surge of viewership – with demand high for family-oriented programmes with millions of children housebound, but a decline in advertising revenues. Because programming licenses are very high, and we may not meet some profitability scenarios that we have. Jarod Suwahjo.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Value of Intangible Assets Accounting has historically done a poor job dealing with intangible assets, and as the economy has transitioned away from a manufacturing-dominated twentieth century to the technology and services focused economy of the twenty first century, that failure has become more apparent.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Any Mastercard debit cardholder can soon send money to any other person with a bank account in any bank across the U.S. – all 14k of them – and have that money deposited into that receiver’s bank account instantly. Jet.com is not profitable and has no clear path to profits, critics say.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

However, Uber’s revenue increased only 2 percent between Q3 and Q4, reaching $3 billion, a 24 percent increase over the previous year — leading some investors to question the ridesharing firm’s future prospects for profitability. Losses came in at $1.8 billion in losses reported at the same time in 2017. Scooter Battles.

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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.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the first, I will look at the grocery business, both in terms of growth and profitability of grocery stores, since Instacart, as an intermediary in the business, will be affected by grocery business fundamentals. On the profitability front, the grocery business operates on slim margins, at every level.

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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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Post-GDPR Losses. We’re investing so much in security that it will significantly impact our profitability,” Zuckerberg said. In Q2, mobile accounted for about 91 percent of the company’s ad revenue, up from 87 percent in the same period last year. million, while Europe had 279 million against an anticipated 279.4 Expense Trends.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The top one percent of musicians account for ninety percent of all music streams and close to sixty percent of revenues from concerts. If success is measured in subscriber count, Disney Plus has succeeded, but the spending on content has exploded, dragging Disney’s profitability down with it.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

By applying the ideal-target-client framework, advisors can not only better target their marketing efforts (as they can align their website and other advertising efforts with their ideal client’s needs), but they can also streamline their day-to-day work, as they will encounter fewer ‘new’ issues as their client base grows.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The second is that interest groups have become much more savvy about lobbying regulatory groups and accounting rule writers to get their required data items on the required list. The second is the notion of materiality , a key component of how accountants and regulators think about what needs to be disclosed.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

From 2001 to 2020, revenue growth at semiconductor businesses has dropped to single digits, as higher demand for chips in new uses has been offset by loss of pricing power, and declining chip prices. Sustained Profitability, with Cycles! While revenue growth has picked up again in the last three years, the business has matured.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We didn’t do advertising. Actually, Jack Bogle wouldn’t let us say the word seller, product or advertising. How does Vanguard operate and not advertise, not pay shelf space? So the harvest losses to offset future gains. So as we grow, become more efficient, we get scale, we sort of make a profit.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. He previously worked at a financial planning firm in Bethesda, Maryland, and as a journalist covering the banking and insurance industries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Read more of Adam’s articles here.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I knew what Bank of America was because my mother, it was a big deal to go to the bank and open a passport account, or to go there with my mother every couple weeks, and have, or my dad to make an appointment with a local, the local branch banker might have been the mayor, I mean, he was a very important guy back in those days.

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