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Customer Concentration

CFO Simplified

Customer concentration had become an ever-bigger problem as borrowing increased. Pricing pressure, inventory requirements, and product development costs had greatly affected profitability. Significant Findings and Recommendations: Reduce Customer Concentration. The loss of every customer is painful. Initial contact –.

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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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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

The Value of Intangible Assets Accounting has historically done a poor job dealing with intangible assets, and as the economy has transitioned away from a manufacturing-dominated twentieth century to the technology and services focused economy of the twenty first century, that failure has become more apparent.

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Amazon’s Retail Swiss Army Knife

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The Swiss Army knife’s manufacturing process is said to be so meticulous that only one in 10,000 knives is ever returned. Brands will develop one over time as Amazon hones its manufacturing capabilities and becomes a private-label competitor. Its design is so unique that it’s on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is why.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

CFO News Room

Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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Out the investor went, proudly showing the world the newest innovation in clothing design and manufacturing all his own. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure. The FBI reports that some $28 million in losses were reported to them in 2016, triple what they say they saw in 2015.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. .” RITHOLTZ: Manufacturing, Ford as an example, sure.