Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

If you are not strong on ESG [environmental, social, and governance] priorities, it will be very difficult to finance your company in the future. A company’s valuation is now fundamentally connected to its CSR, and not only in terms of profitability.

CFO

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. Financing expenses are expenses associated with the use of non-equity financing, and in most firms, it takes the form of interest expenses on debt, short term and long term. .

Accounting

Global Finance

JUNE 18, 2024

This includes the IPO of OYO, India’s most successful hospitality startup that is looking to raise $1 billion and Ola Electric, another venture backed start up manufacturing electric scooters, looking to raise approximately $600 million.

Marketing

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

Corporate Finance : Corporate finance is the development of the first financial principles that govern how to run a business. It is that mission that makes corporate finance the ultimate big picture class, one that everyone (entrepreneurs, investors, analysts, business observers) should take.

Valuation

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. Accounting 101 I am not an accountant, and have no desire to be one, but I have used their output (accounting statements) as raw material in valuation and corporate finance.

Accounting

CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. The proverbial bottom line for success in business is the capacity to deliver profits, at least in the long term.

Marketing

Global Finance

MAY 10, 2024

Manufacturing shows promising signs of recovery while nearshoring and friendshoring in new markets are becoming stronger trends. The agency recorded a decline in international investment project announcements, particularly in project finance (21%) and mergers and acquisitions (16%). At an estimated $1.37

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

I have written about the firm many times, over that period, starting with a valuation that I did of the company in 2012, just ahead of it going public. In these companies, as an outside investor, you have to build that reality into your valuations, leading to discounts to your value that reflect how much you trust management.

Marketing

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. The proverbial bottom line for success in business is the capacity to deliver profits, at least in the long term.

Hurdle Rate

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

I have written about the firm many times, over that period, starting with a valuation that I did of the company in 2012, just ahead of it going public. In these companies, as an outside investor, you have to build that reality into your valuations, leading to discounts to your value that reflect how much you trust management.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Of course, and with small businesses, especially those built around personal services (a doctor or plumber’s practice), it is part of the valuation process, where the key person is valued or at least priced and incorporated into valuation. To estimate key person value, there are three general approaches: 1.

Valuation

Musings on Markets

JULY 24, 2024

Country Risk in Business Most corporate finance classes and textbooks leave students with the proposition that the right hurdle rate to use in assessing business investments is the cost of capital, but create a host of confusion about what exactly that cost of capital measures.

Hurdle Rate