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How to Calculate Your Profitability: A Case Study

CFO Simplified

As Iowa State University reminds us, “profitability is the primary goal of all business ventures.”. Business leadership is often responsible for measuring current, past, and future profitability. But what is profitability? This CFO Simplified client watched profitability slowly disappear—until they incurred a $125,000 loss.

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Inventory Management in Manufacturing

VCFO

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.

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Ep 33: Driving Value Beyond the Balance Sheet

CFO Thought Leader

This episode features the FP&A insights and commentary of CFO Jeff Woolard or Velocity Global, CFO Aaron Alt of Cardinal Health and CFO Bob Houghton of Pivot Bio. This led to a strategic shift in designing products that align better with customer demands and manufacturing capabilities, thereby maximizing margins.

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Managing Your Company’s Inventory

CFO Simplified

It doesn’t matter if you’re a manufacturer, a restaurant, or a law firm. Think of manufacturing companies, retailers, any company that is making or selling “hard goods.” This requires more management because the risk of loss is greater, and the loss is instantaneous, and irrecoverable.

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White House Sees Hearing Aids as Chance to Lower Prices Through More Competition

CFO News Room

At present, just four manufacturers control 84% of the hearing-aid market, according to the Open Markets Institute, a think tank critical of corporate concentration. The reason, analysts say, is federal and state rules that compel manufacturers to sell through medical professionals. billion, they are symbolically important.

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Foot Locker, JD.com, Gap and others

CFO News Room

in premarket trading after an unexpected return to profitability and better-than-expected sales. Williams-Sonoma reported better-than-expected sales and profit for its latest quarter. Farfetch (FTCH) – Farfetch reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss with sales that also came in below analyst forecasts. Shares gained 4.4%

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Lyft, 3M, Lululemon and more

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Paccar — Shares of Paccar rose 7% after the truck manufacturer reported fourth-quarter results, posting a profit of $2.64 3M — Shares of the industrial conglomerate slid more than 5% to hit a new 52-week low after the company said it would cut 2,500 manufacturing jobs amid a demand slowdown. per share and $8.13