The CFO College

AUGUST 31, 2021

Using a rolling cash forecast is a value-add service you can provide to assist in cash forecasting. A rolling cash forecast will normally look forward 6 or 9 months, and each month the oldest month is removed and a new month added. The rolling cash forecast is one of many CFO-level skills we teach in our program.

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Creative CFP

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A key step in assessing the viability of a business plan is forecasting what could be achieved, taking into account as many factors as possible. Such factors include expected sales, customer types, product and service pricing, human resources, capital expenditure, and financing requirements. Enter the Financial Model.

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Creative CFP

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A key step in assessing the viability of a business plan is forecasting what could be achieved, taking into account as many factors as possible. Such factors include expected sales, customer types, product and service pricing, human resources, capital expenditure, and financing requirements. Enter the Financial Model.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

By the numbers, earnings clocked in at $2.46 forecast by analysts pre-release. The major point of concern among analysts, investors and Apple watchers was the continued decline in iPhone sales revenue. percent of the company’s total revenue – and its sales continue to decrease. per share, comfortably ahead of the $2.36

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Also, despite slowing iPhone sales, Apple’s earnings continue to grow. It seems they were more than satisfied with the overall results, as Apple shares spiked 4 percent in after-hours trading on Tuesday, and got within touching distance of that trillion-dollar valuation. By the numbers, earnings clocked in at $2.46

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Story Lines As the walls between sports and money have crumbled, we have become used to seeing mind-boggling numbers on sports transactions, whether it be in the form on broadcasting networks paying for the rights to carry sporting events or player contracts pushing into the hundreds of millions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Apple faces a very different reception from the market on the eve of its previous earnings report , when its valuation had just topped the trillion-dollar mark and its newest class of iPhones had just hit the market. If they aren’t, then they don’t,” Karen Webster noted of Apple’s iPhone sales figure “ rope-a-dope.”.

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CFO Simplified

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

What will your level of involvement be after the sale? . How do the numbers hold up over time? Determine how your numbers hold up. Prepping for a sale requires a deep understanding of your company’s numbers. Your CFO plays a large role in preparing your business for a sale. Identify who your key leaders are.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

That results in a corrected version of pre-tax operating margin for NVIDIA that was 37.83% and a pre-tax return on capital of 24.42% in 2021-2023: I also computed a sales to capital ratio, measuring the dollars of sales for each dollar of capital invested. NVIDIA: The Opportunist!

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Planful

AUGUST 12, 2019

Cash is used for things like: Paying expenses – the things that are necessary for the successful daily operation of the business like employee salaries, sales and marketing expenses, supplies, and inventory. It’s used to determine things like: Company valuation. How do I handle foreign currency valuations and adjustments?

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As the price dropped below $200 today (October 30,2023), I decided that it was time for me to revisit and revalue the company, taking into account the news, financial and other, that has come out since my last valuation in January 2023, and to understand the dueling stories that are emerging about the company.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

By The Numbers. 28 from the pre-release forecast. However, the news that sent the stock price sinking was Grubhub’s forecast for the quarter ahead and the rest of the year. DoorDash raised $250 million in new funding in 2018, and quadrupled its valuation to $4 billion. Grubhub reported a net loss of $5.2

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This trend makes SaaS valuation increasingly important. This makes determining an accurate SaaS valuation difficult. By ensuring that the appropriate methods and models are used, SaaS companies can attain more accurate, higher valuations that provide leverage when seeking financing or negotiating sales.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Some of the changes were pretty easily predicted – once the world of physical commerce was shut down by statute, one might have sensibly forecast that the race would go to the players who mostly swiftly pivoted to digital. The number of shares that will be offered and the price range have not yet been determined, according to the release.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The spokesperson said Amazon is now actively monitoring the website to remove offers that “substantially exceed the recent average sales price” for survival staples like water. Shares Forecast. Far-Out Forecast. trillion valuation within the decade — another number built on the Whole Foods acquisition and AWS growth.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

By The Numbers. 28 from the pre-release forecast. However, the news that sent the stock price sinking was Grubhub’s forecast for the quarter ahead and the rest of the year. DoorDash raised $250 million in new funding in 2018 and quadrupled its valuation to $4 billion. Grubhub reported a net loss of $5.2

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. per share in 2022. Growth potential : I underestimated the company’s capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

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. In closing, I also want to dispense with the notion that data is objective and that numbers-focused people have no bias.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2017

Additionally, if Nested is able to secure a property sale for higher than its price guarantee , the customer will receive an additional 70 percent of the difference between the guarantee and the sale price. Like a traditional realtor, Nested provides its users with a property valuation, inspection, marketing and sales services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

While Automation Anywhere’s funding was the largest of the week, its valuation is not the biggest. It also provides businesses with banking information for each currency, allowing them to obtain IBANs and account numbers from various markets to receive money in different currencies more easily. million raised, U.K.-based

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

By The Numbers. The firm is forecasting adjusted earnings per share in the 16 cents to 20 cents range as opposed to the 15 cents to 19 cents projected previously. We acquired Caviar in order to drive more sales to a type of seller we weren’t able to reach, which was a full-service restaurant. million versus the $450.7

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The enterprise value of publicly traded alternative energy companies has risen from close to zero two decades ago to more than $700 billion in 2020, before losing steam in the last three years: Adding in the value of private companies and start-ups in this space would undoubtedly push up the number further. in the 2011-2023 time period.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. per share in 2022. Growth potential : I underestimated the company's capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Customers get the time-savings and convenience from having grocery shopping (and delivery, if chosen) done for them, but they pay in the form on both delivery fees and a service charge of 5-10% of the bill, depending on the store picked and the number of items in the basket.

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

How much is being charged to cost of sales? What is the percentage of the cost of sales to revenue? Ensuring Proper Inventory Valuation When inventory is not valued properly, turnover ratios return false information, affect cash, and cloud understanding of how investment in inventory is affecting the business.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2016

. “You typically take the company public at some point,” noted JustFab co-founder and co-CEO Adam Goldenberg in a recent interview with the LA Times when speaking on his startup’s impressive track record of fundraising and their unicorn valuation of $1 billion about two years ago. billion into these firms.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Dividends come from earnings, and so those are sort of anchors to valuation. Jeremy Schwartz : And basically said that there’s huge Tech stocks, triple-digit PEs, you can never justify the valuations no matter what the growth rates are. Present value of future cash flows, any asset is present value of future cash flows.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. As Paytm's product suite has expanded, its numbers reflect both its strengths and weaknesses, with four key statistics tracking its expansion.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. So how did you perform?

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

First, it will reduce the number of noise disclosures, i.e., those that pass the materiality threshold for earnings, but don't have a significant impact on value. Total Addressable Market (TAM) Companies going public have increasingly supported high valuations by pointing to market potential, using large TAMs as one of the justifications.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

toy sales last year. Toy sales will carry on, of course – at Amazon and Walmart, the very brands most chiefly named in Toys’ demise – but those big box stores have limited shelf space, and getting onto Amazon’s front page listings isn’t easy. Mobility spending: Mobility spending was forecast to hit $1.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

Last up, Whole Foods stock (WFM) rode on a year high last week on news that an activist investor was putting pressure on the company to accelerate its turnaround and explore options for a possible sale. Same-store sales for Whole Foods fell 2.5 Whole Food’s market valuation, despite recent woes, sits at around $11 billion.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I used to sell units in an onsite sales condo new development on the Upper East Side. And I literally put the entire Schedule A, which is the pricing square footage unit numbers in a Hewlett Packard 41B using bit mapping. And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. Everybody knew the number but the appraiser.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And then somebody convinced me to go into sales and trading, and I decided to do that. And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Ritholtz ] 00:09:37 I recall reading, and I know you can’t say this, but I recall reading that fund return something like 19% a year, some just astounding number. We are not macro forecasters, but we are macro aware understanding what’s happening in the economy with technicals in the markets. 00:37:26 [Speaker Changed] Huh.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 8, 2023

Free cash flow is one of the most dangerous terms in finance, and I am astonished by how it can be bent to mean whatever investors or managers want it to, and used to advance their sales pitches.

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