PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association President Rubana Huq said on LinkedIn that up to 1,089 clothing manufacturing facilities have seen orders become canceled, Bloomberg reported. “I Bangladesh, which is said to be the largest exporter of clothing outside of China , has been producing constant economic gains.

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Future CFO

MARCH 20, 2023

DSO as an accounting metric measures the average number of days a businesses receives payment for goods and services purchased on credit, while DIO is a working capital management ratio that measures the average number of days a company holds inventory before it’s turned into sales. In 2023, more of the same. Liquidity matters.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19), which began in China, has far-reaching impacts that extend beyond health, with a wide range of economic effects in sectors from travel food firms to Amazon marketplace sellers and the workforce in Japan. Hong Kong passenger numbers were down approximately 70 percent. SSP handles 1.5

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Future CFO

JULY 19, 2022

Weak, less liquid markets prompted a plunge in the number of new listings and funds raised in many key capital markets, including New York and Hong Kong, the review adds. Korea Stock Exchange will take the third place after the listing of an electronic vehicle battery manufacturer, which will also be the world's largest IPO in 1H 2022.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The current economic climate is causing profound challenges for business owners across industries. In conjunction with your other numbers, your gross profit margin can tell you if your products are profitable enough, if you need to increase sales or if your expenses, like sales costs, are too high. into the calculation.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

S&P had previously warned China that it would face a surge of bad loans numbering up to $1.1 So, on Thursday, major Chinese lenders reduced their one-year loan prime rate, a key number used across the Chinese financial system, by 0.1 S&P also forecast that China’s annual economic rate could fall as low as 4.4

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

percent in September, the highest number since March. Compared to last year, spending went up less, which is what economists anticipate for the rest of 2019 due to a wider downturn in economic growth. economist at Oxford Economics, told the WSJ. Forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers lowered its 4Q GDP growth to a 1.6

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

What we’ve seen throughout the pandemic is that the economic fallout from each successive wave of case counts has been smaller and smaller,” said. Still, the rapid increase in Covid-19 cases has disrupted operations at a number of manufacturers, and some companies continue to experience staffing shortages. FDX -1.30%.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

Moody’s Analytics forecasts that 27 million positions are at high risk due to the virus, most being in hospitality, transportation, leisure and travel. The rest of the positions, about 52 million, are at moderate risk — education, retail, construction and manufacturing. Some will be furloughed and others laid off, Zandi said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

COVID-19 is spurring firms that rely on consumer spending, and on lending to finance big-ticket purchases, to invent new ways to keep business flowing – with a nod to the fact that the uncertain economic impact of the virus may hurt consumers’ near-term ability to pay for those items.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2020

The coronavirus is closing malls and leading to layoffs at restaurants while boosting laptop sales amid a move to remote work, among other economic impacts. The National Restaurant Association, for its part, forecasts that 5 million to 7 million restaurant positions will be lost over the three months to come.

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Finvisage

JANUARY 2, 2020

The report further proceeds with Results and Findings column, confronting data on several key economic factors affecting TCI on a macro scale. Subsequently, the report touches upon the UK’s current economic environment and TCI’s recent market status. Today these sectors are experiencing a downfall warranting an economic slowdown.

Construction 52

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Future CFO

MAY 24, 2021

Singapore maintains its growth forecast in the range of 4%-6% for the year. . In terms of sector growth, manufacturing expanded by 10.7% from a year ago but the number represents a huge improvement from the 4.7% from a year ago, thanks to the stronger output in the electronics, precision engineering and chemicals clusters.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Tesla is built around an outsized personality : When valuing publicly traded companies, I seldom talk about its top management explicitly, since the numbers reflect what they bring to the firm. That rule does not work with Tesla, since its founder and CEO, Elon Musk, has many qualities, but being self effacing is not one of them.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s because when adjusted for three fewer selling days and one less weekend, there was almost no decline at all — meaning an economically crucial rebound in U.S. Nonetheless, the improvement is a positive sign for the country’s economic recovery.”. Headline data showing a 15 percent drop in November U.S. car sales is still intact.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2018

The economic skirmishes between the two nations escalated as the U.S. has slapped duties on any number of allies, looking to lessen trade deficits. The head of the ECB, Mario Draghi, said the volleys on trade would have to be a part of economic outlook assessments going forward. And, as has widely reported, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2020

The outcome will depend on how long the situation lasts and what economic ramifications it causes. For example, forecasting sales and shipment allocations three months from now may be just as challenging as planning for the next two weeks. Shopping and cooking habits have clearly been impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Various industries are also feeling the pain — from manufacturing and trade, to consumer banking other financial services. billion), said they were confident about their business growth prospects, but less than 70 percent were confident about the country’s economic growth over the next few years. economy.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

are experiencing shortages in both labor and skills across the manufacturing, health care and hospitality sectors. in much smaller numbers than they have in the past. s Economic Health. There have been many opinions and forecasts on how the economic health of the U.K. at some point this year. EU Eyes U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

It was that shortage of ventilators, hospital beds and other necessary equipment, Karen Webster noted in a conversation with ResMed ’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Carlos Nunez, that ultimately drove the economic shutdown we are all now living through. You’ve got to find that happy balance.”.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Forecasting will also become more challenging because COVID-19 has introduced a lot of uncertainties. For a dairy manufacturer, carrying out FP&A remotely is creating a different sort of challenge. A lot of FP&A depends on this type of data for forecasting. Then there is the issue with historical data.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week, auto manufacturers reported that total vehicle sales fell by about 4.1 percent for the month of August, leading many industry experts to predict that demand for new vehicles is slowing down and 2016 sales figures won’t come anywhere close to the record number of vehicles sold in 2015. Or are they?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

Data showed manufacturing output rose steadily in July, and worker productivity grew at its fastest pace in more than three years in the second quarter. percent year over year to $128 billion — well ahead of forecasts of $125.9 By the numbers, Home Depot reported $3.05 percent growth was forecast. Q2 revenues jumped 3.8

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2018

It was supposed to be a strong year for lending across the board, after a stumpy 2017, which saw numbers in both consumer and commercial lending tending toward a slump. Meanwhile on the consumer side, good things were also forecast, particularly in terms of growing into new areas. As of early 2018, U.S. A bold change. percent.

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Planful

JANUARY 11, 2022

And as the economic recovery continues and business operations slowly return to normal, the digital surge shows no signs of slowing down. 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.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

As eCommerce and delivery companies fight an increasingly tough battle to streamline costs and compete for customers, a number of firms are moving to take control over logistics and distribution, as the cost savings and efficiencies can help accelerate growth and lower the expense of making final delivery to the customer.

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Michigan CFO

JULY 8, 2022

A CFO can create financial reports that simplify the bookkeeper or accountant numbers into informative metrics that a business owner can act upon. Financial Forecasting. Financial forecasting is an often overlooked aspect of business management. Feelings might fade, but numbers don’t lie. Business Intelligence.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 3, 2024

The sentiment is especially poignant when it comes to economic forecasting, as it's nearly impossible to get an accurate picture of the current state of the economy at any given moment. While the manufacturing sector (which makes up 'only' 8% of the U.S.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

The corporate life cycle framework provides a useful structure to think about how the technology companies, that dominate the twenty first century business landscape, are different from the manufacturing companies of the last century, and why these differences can create more management tensions at these companies.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 14, 2021

Between 1897 and 1905, for instance, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing neither published an annual report, not held a shareholder meeting. trillion, counting in all car sales and mass transit in that number, and Airbnb contended that its TAM was $3.4 In 2019, Uber claimed that its TAM was $5.2

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

Now that the era of full-stop lockdown is coming to an end and economic reopenings are under way to one extent or another in all 50 U.S. But he added that since a massive number of consumers have overcome that initial reluctance, they’re likely to become repeat digital shoppers. states, the $3.7

Retail 58

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Creative CFP

AUGUST 11, 2020

The seven key indicators of financial risk There are seven key indicators of financial risk that provide insight into management’s ability to lead the business through economic, market, and competitive challenges. Management should have a clear strategy and detailed cash flow forecasts to proactively monitor and control this growth phase.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 5, 2023

These data series always bounce around, confounding forecasters much of the time. Rather than accept the volatility of month-to-month economic datapoints — NFP, Consumer Spending, Manufacturing, Inflation, etc. The problem lies not in the data but in ourselves.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The corporate life cycle framework provides a useful structure to think about how the technology companies, that dominate the twenty first century business landscape, are different from the manufacturing companies of the last century, and why these differences can create more management tensions at these companies. Aging in Dog Years?

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Centage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Did manufacturing costs increase? Is the sales team struggling to hit their numbers or is it that a large sale that was expected early in Q1 actually coming in closer to H2? Or were the materials for manufacturing available later than expected? Did commission payouts plummet? Was it a salesmanship issue?

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Centage

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This is especially concerning as we look ahead to another challenging year of economic uncertainty. You can update your forecasts based on the analysis. By accurately forecasting the impact of a scenario, you can confidently make recommendations to the executive team. All plans, to a certain extent, are based on assumptions.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Some of you believe that I am being far too generous in my forecasts of revenues and profitability for a company that is facing significant competition, as it pursues growth, especially with questions about who’s in charge of the company. On both fronts, I am more cautious.

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