CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm. The numbers yield interesting insights. .

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Measuring Profitability The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm. The numbers yield interesting insights.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Furthermore, do they optimize they debt ratios to deliver the lowest hurdle rates. At the other end of the spectrum, technology and energy companies look the safest on an interest coverage ratio basis, but with both groups, you worry about year-to-year volatility in earnings. Do companies optimize financing mix?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

Both oil and copper dropped during the peak crisis weeks (February 14 through March 23, 2020), but while copper not only recouped its losses and was up almost 26% over the course of the year, oil remains more than 20% below the start-of-the-year numbers. Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate Question.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” look at the Monte Carlo simulations, look at what is the hurdle rate. The plan update process for you, it’s not just that the numbers move because a year has gone by and the markets did what they did and you saved what you saved, you withdrew whatever you were going to withdraw. Cean: We actually use J.P.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Railways were this revolutionary technology that was going to change the world, going to change civilization, the speed with which people — roughly at the same time, remember Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley — RITHOLTZ: Sure. And then I thought why wasn’t the security, subprime securities? CHANCELLOR: Exactly.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

He is Chief Equity technical strategist at B of A Securities, and he’s a double threat. And I think you will also, with no further ado, my conversation with B of A Securities, Steven Sutt Meyer. And 00:06:38 [Speaker Changed] Door number one was much better than door number three in, in the circumstances.

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