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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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Key features for FA&P software to choose the best one

Spreadym

Financial analysis and planning (or FA&P) software is a type of business software that helps companies manage their finances and operational activity by analyzing financial data and providing tools to plan, forecast and make budgets for efficient business growth. Planning: this is the first stage of every business activity.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the investment data business, to compute an industry average. Return on (invested) capital 2. Excess Returns on investments 4. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Buybacks 2. Equity Risk Premiums 2.

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Beyond the Basics: 7 Key Focus Areas for New CFOs

CFO Talks

By carefully prioritizing their tasks and responsibilities, CFOs can effectively navigate their broad and varied role, ensuring that their time and efforts are invested in areas with the highest impact on the company’s success.

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Musings on Markets: Data Update 1 for 2022: It is Moneyball Time!

CFO News Room

Not surprisingly, Moneyball has found its way into business and investing as well. After all, we get our restaurant choices from Yelp reviews, our movie recommendations from Rotten Tomatoes, and we have even built crypto currencies around the notion of crowd-checking transactions. Don’t get me wrong!

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Country Risk: A July 2023 Update!

Musings on Markets

To the extent that divide is not just descriptive, but also drives real world investment, both companies and investors may be misallocating their capital, and I will argue for finer delineations of risk.

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NFTs, Crypto and Powerful Impact on 2021 taxes

Adam Kae

Educate yourself BEFORE investing. Selling Crypto or an NFT and receiving fiat currency. Buying crypto with fiat currency. Here is a great resource from Work From Home Financial to track all of your crypto transactions in one easy place! Understand WHAT isn’t a taxable transaction. What is a Taxable Transaction?