CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The last few years have been eventful for all companies, with the COVID crisis and ensuing economic shut down causing pain for companies, with recovery coming in 2021, as the global economy opened up again. Costs grow at a slower rate than revenues. Superior unit economics. Economies of scale. High gross margins.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 20, 2023

Risk and Hurdle Rates In investing and corporate finance, we have no choice but to come up with measures of risk, flawed though they might be, that can be converted into numbers that drive decisions. Not surprisingly, both these forces play a role in how companies and investors set hurdle rates.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. Much of my focus, when it comes to data, is on company-specific variables, rather than macro economic data, for two reasons. Or, do US companies pay far less in taxes than companies incorporated in the rest of the world?

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