Future CFO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Declining profitability: For example, are your sales lower or your cost of goods sold higher? Poor interest coverage ratio: This shows operating profits may not be able to cover interest expenses. There is also the natural climate to take into account. Weakened balance sheet. Operating margins: Are they becoming thinner?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

New pet owners account for about $4 billion in fresh demand for food and accessories. The pet retail chain is also moving towards profitability after net losses the past two years. It has also narrowed its losses by 77 percent to $20.3 The pet retail chain filed last month for an IPO pending an SEC review.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

These days there are 800 million bank accounts linked to the Aadhaar the national-identity digital database, according to reports in The Economist , and thosee account are all connected to the Universal Payments Interface that allows easy transfers between banks accounts. Flipkart reported a net loss of 87.71

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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.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

suffered the largest-ever loss. John Lynch, chief investment officer at Comerica Wealth Management, which manages $175 billion. Amazon relieved investors with a near doubling in profit in the holiday period and said it is raising the price of its Prime membership in the U.S. AMZN 13.54%. Meta Platforms Inc. Pinterest Inc.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

In 2017 alone Amazon laid out over $20 billion in investment and acquisitions — and as 2019 got up and running, it was pretty clear that slowing that pace was not on the agenda. And Amazon’s competitors in retail are working hard to make sure that the regulators take a close enough look. The regulatory ride goes on.

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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. New York Times ) see also Powell Will Find Much to Love in Retail Sales Letdown : The latest report landed with a mixed reception. Can He Keep It?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 10, 2022

But do you know exactly what it is and how it can benefit your investments? And just as important, do you know where to find the best compound interest investments? In my estimation, compound interest is critical to successful investing. That’s what compound interest can do with your savings and investments. The $26.28

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We have deep dives into unattended retail, rapid settlements and cybersecurity, as well as news on Mastercard receiving the go-ahead from China’s central bank to set up a bank clearing business. NEW DATA: Consumers Like Cashier-less Retail But Retailers Aren’t Hitting The Mark. Trackers and Reports. million consumers or 6.9

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

The firm’s retail-banking division registered a $176 million loss compared to a $4.2 billion profit during the same 2019 period. Offsetting the weak retail-banking performance, JPMorgan Chase’s corporate- and investment-banking unit experienced a 16 percent year-on-year revenue growth to $16.4

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Are media buyers burning through budgets at the last minute just to preserve them for a better shot next year, or will the ad rebound collectively help recoup 2020 losses with holiday sales? billion, while profits jumped 29 percent to $7.84 billion in revenue and profits of $5.53 Google parent Alphabet Inc.

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Cube Software

MAY 10, 2023

This could be retail stores offering layaway plans or a media company offering subscriptions to streaming services. It is important to accurately track and report unearned revenue, so you can properly manage profit margins. What if I use cash basis accounting? What are deferred expenses?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Spending on cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) systems is expected to see continued strong growth as businesses invest in projects in those areas. ” According to IDC, software will be the largest and fastest-growing category through the forecast period, accounting for around 40 percent of all cognitive and AI spending.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Internet Retailer reported that, despite the company’s busy year, UPS profits actually missed analysts’ expectations, causing its stock to fall on Tuesday (Jan. 31) more than 6 percent — its biggest loss in two years. percent in the last quarter of 2016 and accounted for 55 percent of UPS volume in that period.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As noted in this space , the entity fashioned by the merger would take its place as the fifth largest retail bank in the country, and with a presence that spans 24 states, and with a combined asset base of about $560 billion. To that end, Spanish financial firm BBVA said it would sell its U.S. billion in an all-cash deal. percent in June.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

That accounts for 2.3 percent of all consumer retail spend. 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 15, no one could fault the retailer for putting the full weight of its brand behind Walmart+.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 18, 2020

There has been increased demand over the loss and alternative risk share structures in the multi debtor space, a trend we expect to see continue beyond the crises. James Ponsford: Asia and Singapore, in particular, is a commodities hub with commodity trading business accounting to 4.5% How has COVID-19 impact the APAC credit markets?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

Which, they don’t always do — even if the company does make a profit. For instance, when Amazon posted a Q4 2015 profit of $482 million, lower than expected, its stock dipped 13 percent in post-trading hours. Could the new (profit-making) Amazon be here to stay? Could the new (profit-making) Amazon be here to stay?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

And by all accounts they were entirely serious, as it has been an expensive and comprehensive journey. Hit particularly hard in the crisis are small, individual investors like Isaac and Bless Boahen, who saved and invested for months so she could fund an economics doctorate. So far the government has paid at least 12 billion cedis ($2.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

He will be the executive responsible and accountable for leading Google, and managing Alphabet’s investment in our portfolio of Other Bets,” the post said. “We Postmates’ Profit Problem. By their estimates, retailers lose about 4 percent of a day’s sales each hour that a website is down. So what did we learn last week?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A little more than a year ago, PYMNTS started tracking the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between the two retail behemoths that have been expanding their respective ecosystems in the process: Amazon and Walmart. Walmart was leading that race then, according to PYMNTS analysis, since it accounted for 8.9 percent of all U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Much of the coverage was about the hit to Q2 profits from the additional investments in logistics, warehousing and inventory management required to cut the current default shipping option in half. Certainty as Retail’s Disruptor. And how much are consumers willing to pay to get that certainty?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Loss of the Week: Nike Says So Long to Amazon . Going forward, the sneaker and sports apparel company says it will pursue a new retail path based on partnerships and its direct business. “As By all accounts Walmart’s eCommerce news out of its latest earnings report looked like a victory, with digital sales up 41 percent in the quarter.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

The moves comes as the firm is working to account for declining loan volumes. billion in it last fundraising round last year, as of yet, the firm has not actually been profitable. billion, but losses grew too — and much more quickly — from $3 million in 2014 to $26 million last year. And though Prosper was valued at $1.9

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

While cloud computing and digital entertainment division revenues have surged, they’ve yet to turn a profit. Alibaba also saw user numbers up for the quarter, with annual active buyers across Alibaba’s Chinese retail marketplaces hitting 454 million. Pre-market trading saw value tending toward a loss of 3 percent.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2017

Despite years of revenue reports indicating that online stores had become vital lifelines for retailers in every segment from furniture to fashion — accounting for more than 10 percent of retail purchases, and bringing in more than $105 billion in the first quarter of 2017 alone — some businesses have resisted selling their inventory online.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Jim Cramer — CNBC ’s infinitely excitable investment guru — thinks that Wall Street just fundamentally isn’t getting the point, particularly when it comes to the one part of the earnings call that did see big growth: Apple’s expanding Services business. billion, Apple is still the most profitable company on Earth.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But if I had a plan as to how to do that when I went to college, it was learn as much as I could, as fast as I could and get a ba and then become an accountant and a lawyer. And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Instacart Business Model The Instacart business model extends online shopping, already common in other areas of retailing, into the grocery store space. In the second, I will examine the forces that are pushing consumers to online grocery shopping, and the ceiling for that growth is much lower than it is than in other areas of retailing.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

We will end with a discussion of how enterprises try, with mixed effects, to build protections against the loss of key personnel. We will then follow up with a framework for thinking about how key people can affect the value of a business, with practical suggestions on valuing and pricing key people. Who is a key person?

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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. Iris Scanning.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

But profitability has remained elusive. During its last earnings report, despite showing gains in every metric (revenue, earnings, transaction volume), Square’s bottom line was still quite red: showing a loss of $0.04 loss last year. It also invested in accelerating the speed of its EMV card readers. In the U.S.,

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

There are multiple definitions that you will see offered, from it being the cost of raising capital for that business to an opportunity cost , i.e., a return that you can make investing elsewhere, to a required return for investors in that business.

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CFO Talks

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Today’s podcast is sponsored by Draftworx, which provides automated drafting and working paper financial software to more than 8000 accounting and auditing firms and corporations. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants. Tell us about your trip to Mexico, what were the impressions.

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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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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

In January 1993, I was valuing a retail company, and I found myself wondering what a reasonable margin was for a firm operating in the retail business. In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the investment data business, to compute an industry average.

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Future CFO

JULY 13, 2020

“With the sales being affected with advertisers not placing the ads, we are mulling over scenarios where we adapt a revenue-share or profit-share basis to be able to fund new programmes. Because programming licenses are very high, and we may not meet some profitability scenarios that we have. Sumesh Balakrishnan.

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