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New Data: What COVID-19 Is Doing To Main Street SMBs

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The construction and manufacturing sectors were the most bullish, as consumers bought new houses and invested in improving the ones in which they were living. Most businesses, SMBs included, plan for rainy days, and have access to capital of some kind to smooth over those lumpy cash flow crunches. Doing The Math.

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Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge

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The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It Macdonald’s mind was already primed by his engineering and business education at McGill University and the University of Victoria.

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Do the Masses Know Best? When it Comes to Lucrative Data, Maybe So.

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The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It MacDonald’s mind was already primed by his engineering and business education at McGill University and the University of Victoria.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

And so these were two stories, maybe three, before I’m 9-years-old of bad economics, bad culture, and a bad business plan. Different risk tolerance and different business plan. When you’re going to chill in the evening, I’m preparing my next business plan. They have a dumb business plan. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Two CFO-Level Accounting Tools to Add Value to Your Accounting Services

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Acquiring these advanced types of services, like setting up a permanent audit trail, rolling cash forecast, month-end reporting, and strategic planning, is the secret sauce your potential client needs to know how their money flows in and out of their company (and what their financial future will look like).

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. They create the benchmark. DAVIS: That’s exactly it.

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Ancestry CEO Deb Liu Says Women Need to Reframe Their Relationship to Power

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How to constructively combat imposter syndrome, and actually use its energy to fuel your drive. HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius sat down with Roslansky in this episode of our video series “ The New World of Work ” to talk about: How women can survive and thrive in stereotypically “bro” industries like the technology sector.