The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Get Involved in All Aspects Of Your Business The difference between an average CFO and a great one is that the latter prioritizes becoming involved in corporate issues, attending sales and marketing meetings and visiting clients. Because of that, company owners frequently blame the CFOs for tough economic times and dismiss them as overhead.

CFO 52

CFO Communication Leadership Concentration 52

Musings on Markets

MAY 5, 2023

After every banking crisis, new rules are put into place to reduce or minimize these risks to the economic system, but in spite of these rules or sometimes because of them, there are new crisis. That pain becomes worse with bonds with default-risk, with Baa (investment grade) corporate bonds losing 27% of their value.

Banking 76

Banking Profit and Loss Securities Investments 76

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Concurrently, the company concentrated its IT functions in Australia and reducing the number of CIOs to one. In a panel discussion, Shashank Luthra, managing director, Services Sales, ASEAN, Cisco noted that the vendor community understands this well. Shashank Luthra, managing director, Services Sales, ASEAN, Cisco.

Finance 52

Finance Budgeting Concentration Technology 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In series, hosts Karen Webster and David Evans, economist and author of “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms ,” were joined by Tom Weaver , CEO of Flypay , to discuss how its recent business model pivot helped its restaurant payments platform to ignite.

Concentration 57

Concentration Numbers Technology Economics 57

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. In addition, growth in the experiences business will also push this metric upwards, since Airbnb keeps a 20% share of those revenues.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Valuation Investments Numbers 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

McKibbin, who are affiliated with Korea University and The Australian National University, said “just calculating the number of canceled tourist trips, declines in retail trade and similar factors is not enough to get the full impact of SARS” because of the linkages within and between economies and sectors. percent to 4.4 Initial Impact.

Economics 66

Economics Concentration Sales Retail 66

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

In closing, I also want to dispense with the notion that data is objective and that numbers-focused people have no bias. Finally, it is worth noting that, notwithstanding the travails of last year, the number of firms in the data universe increased from 44,394 firms at the start of 2020 to 46,579 firms, a 4.9%

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Companies looking to advance in this new economic environment will continue to rely on the same four strategies that have proven successful over the past 16 months. It's critical that everyone from HR and finance to engineering and sales is involved in the innovation process for your business model transition to be effective.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Economics Risk Management Reconciliations 52

Future CFO

JANUARY 10, 2024

A look back at 2023 and it becomes clear that persistent challenges were the norm for much of the year – be it in the form of social, geopolitical or economic. Insolvency in Asia The Allianz Research paper, Global Economic Outlook 2023-25 , notes that businesses face declining demand and higher costs while pricing power is fading.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Concentration Economics Risk Management 52

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

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. While hearing aids are a relatively small industry, with annual sales of about $1.5 Has corporate concentration raised prices for you? SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS.

Concentration 130

Concentration Profit and Loss Manufacturing Economics 130

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The music retail business was decimated, as music retailers like Tower Records shut down, and as artists looking to replace lost revenues from record sales with live performances and merchandising sales, companies like LiveNation stepped in to fill the need. Embedded in these numbers are two other trends worth noting.

Entertainment 77

Entertainment Profit and Loss Numbers Marketing 77

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

KRISTEN BITTERLY MICHELL, HEAD OF NORTH AMERICAN INVESTMENTS, CITI GLOBAL WEALTH: It’s really interesting because I’m not someone that you would think would be the typical profile to end up in capital markets or — or sales and trading. I’m from a — a very small town in the middle of Pennsylvania. I was econ and kind of geeky.

Investments 116

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 116

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Euromonitor used the same optimism, comparing it to other BRICs and predicting it as the country likely to see the strongest economic growth. India’s smartphone users are expected to number 244 million in 2017, surpassing the number of smartphone users in the U.S. One of those routes to market is the availability of cash.

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Concentration Advertising Education Forecasting 40

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, I am once again so thankful to all of you, the ever-growing number of readers who continue to regularly visit this Nerd’s Eye View Blog (and share the content with your friends and colleagues, which we greatly appreciate!). Sales & Marketing. Executive Summary.

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Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Twenty-six million strong, employing 50 percent of the workforce and creating 65 percent of all new jobs, SMBs and storefronts that line the side streets and main streets of our cities and towns are the fuel that keeps our economic engines humming, roughly 100 million Americans employed and what feeds a thriving middle class.

Concentration 53

Concentration Retail Advertising Economics 53

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I could go back and tell a story that I was a double major in economics and sociology, and financial planning was a perfect fit. And it was a very sales-oriented culture. And what I realized very quickly is that I really didn’t like the sales aspect, but I was actually good at it. I was at the top of the board. Doing what?

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Planning Budgeting Investments Communication 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. So, my prior broker dealer, it was Fortune 100 company, they have tremendous obviously philosophies in place on how they get their sales force to produce amazing results. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients.

Planning 130

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Because the economics of profitability start showing up particularly when you’re starting to hire other advisors and staff and team. And so, that can move the numbers, as well. And so, that can move the numbers, as well. Where do you derive your numbers from? Is this an internal analysis process? Cean: Yep, yep.

Restructuring 130

Restructuring Planning Accounting Marketing 130

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 61

CFO News Room

JANUARY 16, 2023

Since one of ESG’s sales pitches has been that following it’s precepts would insulate companies and investors from the risks emanating from bad corporate behavior, both ESG advocates and critics have looked to its performance in this crisis, to get a measure of its worth.

Investments 130

Investments Economics Concentration Construction 130

CFO News Room

MARCH 28, 2022

Since one of ESG’s sales pitches has been that following it’s precepts would insulate companies and investors from the risks emanating from bad corporate behavior, both ESG advocates and critics have looked to its performance in this crisis, to get a measure of its worth.

Investments 130

Investments Economics Concentration Construction 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 14, 2023

Throughout John Marshall’s long tenure, the Court strongly upheld property and contract rights, greatly aiding the nation’s economic development. The dispute was over a federal law, the Filled Milk Act, which prohibited the sale of “adulterated” milk products. And it did not infringe on the rights of the people. In 1824, in Gibbons v.

Economics 130

Economics Education Concentration Sales 130

Musings on Markets

MARCH 28, 2022

Since one of ESG's sales pitches has been that following it’s precepts would insulate companies and investors from the risks emanating from bad corporate behavior, both ESG advocates and critics have looked to its performance in this crisis, to get a measure of its worth.

Investments 113

Investments Economics Concentration Construction 113

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

Marketing 130

Marketing Investments Auditing Restructuring 130

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

Investments 100

Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

And number two, it may interest you to know, here are four or five different funds in the same situation. These are big numbers. WEINSTEIN: And there is also something too, as much as there has to be a respectful — number one, there has to be a respectful environment for everybody. And I realized I have his home number.

Investments 57

Investments Numbers Risk Management Concentration 57

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. If it’s a cyclical low Yeah.

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

percent of its sales were attributed to that payment method. This ignores the fact that the processing rails for this system — bitcoin — is concentrated in a handful of miners in China and the exchanges used to turn bitcoin into the real money that people can spend are routinely hacked.

Banking 44

Banking Transportation Investments Currencies 44

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And then I left there and joined a number of my colleagues from Drexel and launched a business that as it turns out, was pretty much a carbon copy of the business we have today. And that’s really what was the genesis for, you know, our sale to Carlyle. This is really a fascinating story. You should have a platform there.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Investments Banking 57

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

Sales 51

Sales Retail Advertising Leverage 51

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

Sales 44

Sales Retail Advertising Leverage 44

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

You turned out to be the first dual economics financial management major at Quinnipiac. And before you knew it, she was the number one salesperson for selling to professional salons in the whole country. They just didn’t do that in big numbers back then. Everything’s for sale. RITHOLTZ: Really? They don’t.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 61

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And since that happened, I don’t know, about four or five years ago, the fund has been putting up great numbers, outperforming doing really, really well. And at that point, I decided what I really wanted to do was be a PhD in economics. And we held it for, I don’t know, for a number of years.

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Numbers Entertainment 114

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Until recently, economic central planning from the political right received far less attention than its well-known manifestations on the left. Unfortunately, an emerging faction on the political right has decided to deploy economic planning of their own as an intended countermeasure against their progressive foes.

Economics 130

Economics Education Planning Manufacturing 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

This is a true reflection of what we’re seeing as far as the virus concentration in our population.’”. On “our democracy”: If the electorate isn’t buying what you’re selling, then Democracy actually says you need to rethink your sales pitch- not that you tell them Democracy has died. Sports Desk.

Concentration 130

Concentration Healthcare Securities Numbers 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Davos tries testing: Everyone at the World Economic Forum annual meeting — including journalists and participants — has to take a PCR test upon arrival. An ERV can economically introduce fresh ventilation air into your home. We are now two weeks away from holiday travel, so we should have a result. See below at case data.

Concentration 130

Concentration Economics Manufacturing Numbers 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 10, 2023

Now we’re looking back at data and we can see how concentrated this was in one small portion of the population, and how the fact that people who were being exposed to these were really, really likely to vote for Trump,’ Tucker said. Second, exposure was concentrated among users who strongly identified as Republicans.

Concentration 130

Concentration Education Healthcare Budgeting 130