Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Three: Benchmark Industry Profitability Ratios Your profit margin might look weak to you, but is it? Benchmark your industry before looking at your profitability so you know what to aim for. Four: Understand Customer Valuation Your customers are the source of your revenue – and your profits. But how much are they really worth?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Benchmarking Valuation 98

Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Three: Benchmark Industry Profitability Ratios Your profit margin might look weak to you, but is it? Benchmark your industry before looking at your profitability so you know what to aim for. Four: Understand Customer Valuation Your customers are the source of your revenue – and your profits. But how much are they really worth?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Benchmarking Valuation 52

VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

How Attention to Inventory Can Make or Break Manufacturers A major factor in determining the success of a manufacturer is how well it manages its inventory. When manufacturers have too little inventory, they can’t fully meet customer demands and lose out on revenue as a result. A benchmark exercise can also provide insight here.

Manufacturing 73

Manufacturing Benchmarking Forecasting Profit and Loss 73

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

And so when I asked myself the question, am I qualified to provide investment advice? And so for the longest time, I actually thought that my unconventional background, I wasn’t an Ivy League student, I didn’t train at an investment bank, I wasn’t working for a hedge fund, I started my career as a bank teller.

Construction 52

Construction Marketing Valuation Investments 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Venture capitalists and equity investors targeted companies that apply big data technologies, including artificial intelligence, to an array of use cases, including fleet and manufacturing — leading to more than $322 million raised for B2B startups this week. Cross River Bank. Cross Creek Advisors and previous backers also participated.

B2B 70

B2B Startups Benchmarking Manufacturing 70

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab Chief Investment Strategist , is below. She is the chief investment strategist and member of the firm’s Investment Committee at Schwab. She is as much in the mix, in the thick of what’s going on in the world of investing as anybody.

Investments 57

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

He was the chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch where he worked for more than 20 years. If you’re at all interested in thinking about asset allocation, top-down analysis, how to think about the world of investing, not as a stock picker, but as a broad macro perspective, none better than Rich Bernstein.

Quantitative Analysis 61

Quantitative Analysis Investments Valuation Marketing 61