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Textron, Charter, Estee Lauder, Signet and more

CFO News Room

Charter Communications – Charter Communications fell 5% after analysts at Citi added a negative catalyst watch to the company heading into its analyst day. after the CEO said it projects fourth quarter advertising revenue to be lower than the third quarter. Paramount — Shares of media company Paramount slipped 7.5%

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10 Weekend Reads

Barry Ritholtz

The internet has long been clogged with advertising, but something different is happening today. billion valuation and a newfound desire to go mainstream. Financial Times ) • What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet : Disturbances on the sun may have the potential to devastate our power grid and communication systems.

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies.

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How to Properly Record Revenue for Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

Like restricted and unrestricted funds, keeping grant and sponsorship money can save you headaches at tax time (and when communicating with donors ). Sponsorships are often one-time donations in the form of advertisements or promotions for the sponsoring business. For example, a local restaurant sponsors your annual fundraising gala.

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App Annie: 2019 Record Year For App Downloads

PYMNTS

We uniquely surface both market data and critical advertising insights to optimize monetization and help our customers thrive on mobile.”. Mobile-focused companies, such as Uber and Alibaba , had a combined IPO valuation of $544 billion, or 6.5 times higher than companies without a mobile focus. 1 the App Store’s free apps list.

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Snapchat’s Surprise Surge

PYMNTS

Though Snapchat – and its valuation haircut – got the lion’s share of the headlines as the year began, it looks like the story might be starting to turn. “At first, millennial men were using Snapchat to communicate with friends, capture funny moments and share inside jokes,” Berger said. So what happened?

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Transcript: Joanne Bradford

Barry Ritholtz

And she has really managed to accomplish tremendous things, not just at Microsoft, where she ran MSNs advertising and marketing, not just at Yahoo or Pinterest, but even a small startup like Honey, which she was president and sold pretty quickly to PayPal for $4 billion. San Diego State studying journalism and advertising. It was fun.