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To NPV or Not to NPV: That Is the Question

Fpanda Club

They tend to avoid losses and prefer to keep the things as they are rather than invest in risky innovation. Analysts usually build their financial models for the first 5 years of the investment and then add terminal value for all the years coming thereafter which may contribute up to 50% of NPV.

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Month-End Close: How to Speed Up the Process

Planful

In his perspective on Ventana’s 2019 benchmark research on the Office of Finance , Kugel noted that for the first time in 15 years, companies showed significant improvement in month-end close times. Reducing the length of the month-end close in any meaningful way depends on automation.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. So it leads to the question, what’s the secret to this longstanding outperformance against all benchmarks and, and all passive measures?