Future CFO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It is tempting for firms to respond to a short-term setback in financial performance by compromising on long-term investment in sustainability efforts. As a simple analogy, the regular and proper maintenance of the fire alarm system can be tedious and costly, but such investment can potentially save millions of dollars and precious lives.

Finance 98

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2023

, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) , refers to the systematic procedure of strategizing, arranging, supervising, and managing an , organization's activities with the aim of reducing the negative impacts of risks on its financial resources and profits. The amplified interest in ERM is being driven by external factors.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

When it comes to the battle between Bentonville and Seattle, Amazon is taking the lion’s share of this category, according to an exclusive PYMNTS data analysis. That means it doesn’t fit into Walmart’s everyday low price model – but it does fit Amazon, which doesn’t have to use it as a loss leader. In 2016, it took $24.5

Profit and Loss 56

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Planful

JANUARY 11, 2022

Consistent with their 2018 forecast, McKinsey’s late 2020 study found that organizations that invested more in digital than their competitors were twice as likely to report outsize revenue growth. For many CFOs, the thought of outsourcing data analysis to AI is a nonstarter. 1 – Move your data to the cloud.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

In this post, I will start with a rationalization of why I do this data analysis every year, follow up with a description (geographic and sector) of the overall universe of companies that are in my analysis, list out the variables that I estimate and report, and conclude with a short caveat about 2020 data.

Valuation 52

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

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.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

From 2001 to 2020, revenue growth at semiconductor businesses has dropped to single digits, as higher demand for chips in new uses has been offset by loss of pricing power, and declining chip prices. Sustained Profitability, with Cycles! While revenue growth has picked up again in the last three years, the business has matured.

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