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EBITDA in Financial Analysis

Spreadym

EBITDA is often used in financial analysis and business valuation because it provides a more standardized and consistent measure of a company's operating performance, especially when comparing companies with different capital structures or when assessing their ability to generate cash from operations.

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Musings on Markets: Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

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Data: Trickle to a Flood! It is perhaps a reflection of my age that I remember when getting data to do corporate financial analysis or valuation was a chore. Much of my focus, when it comes to data, is on company-specific variables, rather than macro economic data, for two reasons.

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The Intangible Valuation Renaissance: Five Methods

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Intangible assets are increasingly critical to corporate value, and new valuation methods need to be deployed to accurately calculate their worth.

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

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That said, it is my experience with markets that has also made me skeptical about the over selling of both notions, since we have an entire branch of finance (behavioral finance/economics) that has developed to explain how more data does not always lead to better decisions and why crowds can often be collectively wrong.

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Where Can FP&A Career Path Take You?

Fpanda Club

FP&A analyst, in turn, is a promising yet developing profession that can be interesting to graduates with finance, statistics, economics or business degrees as well as to finance professionals from adjacent disciplines. Planning, budgeting and forecasting are linked together forming financial planning processes.

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Data Update 1 for 2022: It is Moneyball Time!

Musings on Markets

That said, it is my experience with markets that has also made me skeptical about the over selling of both notions, since we have an entire branch of finance (behavioral finance/economics) that has developed to explain how more data does not always lead to better decisions and why crowds can often be collectively wrong.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. It is very likely that these rules of thumb were developed from data and observation, but at a different point in time.