CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

If your query is why I would continue to teach rather than seek out more lucrative careers in investing or banking, my answer is a simple one. Just as a note of warning, this is my quirky version of accounting, and I don’t follow the accounting script in this class.

Marketing 130

Marketing Corporate Finance Valuation Finance 130

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If your query is why I would continue to teach rather than seek out more lucrative careers in investing or banking, my answer is a simple one. Link to accounting class Just as a note of warning, this is my quirky version of accounting, and I don’t follow the accounting script in this class.

Corporate Finance 89

Corporate Finance Valuation Finance Financial Analysis 89

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

Marketing 130

Marketing Valuation Advertising Numbers 130

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. Facebook, I argued, is a corporate autocracy, with Mark Zuckerberg at its helm.

Valuation 90

Valuation Advertising Numbers Investments 90

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 30, 2024

Full disclosure, my firm, OLTs Wealth Management, works with Betterment, which powers our digital investment platform. And have the ability to candidly, to invest and lose money in ways that the incumbents can’t. We, we had 60 or 70% of all kids entertainment time was spent on Nickelodeon. They were, they were a platform.

Investments 57

Investments Technology Leadership Marketing 57

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. Joel Tillinghast : Well, okay, G, when he was six, my grandfather, who was a bookkeeper accountant at a textile mill died and my grandmother was a second string violin at the Providence Symphony Orchestra, which didn’t pay well then, and I suspect didn’t pay well now.

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. KENCEL: So — RITHOLTZ: Why are they investing in mid-market U.S.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Investments Banking 57