Accounting Corporate Finance Hurdle Rate 
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 10, 2025
In corporate finance and investing, which are areas that I work in, I find myself doing double takes as I listen to politicians, market experts and economists making statements about company and market behavior that are fairy tales, and data is often my weapon for discerning the truth. Insider, CEO & Institutional holdings 2.
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet.
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Musings on Markets
MARCH 5, 2025
The Dysfunctional Version In practice, though, there is no other aspect of corporate finance that is more dysfunctional than the cash return or dividend decision, partly because the latter (dividends) has acquired characteristics that get in the way of adopting a rational policy. Data Update 5 for 2025: It's a small world, after all!
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. In 2022, I decided that I had hit critical mass, in terms of corporate life cycle content, and that the material could be organized as a book.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 31, 2024
In my last three posts, I looked at the macro (equity risk premiums, default spreads, risk free rates) and micro (company risk measures) that feed into the expected returns we demand on investments, and argued that these expected returns become hurdle rates for businesses, in the form of costs of equity and capital.
CFO News Room
JANUARY 18, 2023
The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm.
CFO News Room
JANUARY 7, 2023
Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. Thus, market capitalization, interest rates and risk premiums, the data is as of that date. Or, do US companies pay far less in taxes than companies incorporated in the rest of the world?
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