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3 FP&A Practices That Will Transform Your Finance Team

The Finance Weekly

Traditionally, the FP&A process entails creating a budget, cash flow, profit and loss statement, and balance sheet, then using them to forecast future performance. The first step in being a strategic business partner is to stop thinking about how much everything costs and instead concentrate on how to bring value.

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The Sharing Economy come home: The IPO of Airbnb!

Musings on Markets

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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A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business!

Musings on Markets

In the 1970s, Hollywood discovered the payoff from blockbuster movies, and the movie business became increasingly dependent on the biggest blockbusters delivering enough revenues and profits to cover a whole host of movies that either lost money or broke even. With Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime, the game is even more difficult to gauge.

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

Musings on Markets

While companies that were listed for much of the twentieth century waited until they had established business models to go public, the dot-com boom saw the listing of young companies with growth potential but unformed business models (translating into operating losses), and that trend has continued and accelerated in this century.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

CFO News Room

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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2022 Best-Of Highlights From The Nerd’s Eye View Blog

CFO News Room

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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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions.