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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: Talking Through WIN-WIN (Warehouse) Scenarios

The Charity CFO

In essence, Travis tells us the law specifies that corporations ( specifically C-Corps) can not only donate their cost when they donate certain items of excess inventory, but they can utilize a rule that allows one half of their markup to the fair market value of the piece. So the second option, donation right?

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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts

PYMNTS

He wrote in an email regarding the coming changes: “With the recent tightening of the capital markets, we are refocusing on our core consumer loans business.”. Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some. All in, 171 jobs will be cut.

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Inflation is here. It’s real. It could take you out of business.

VCFO

What does that do to your profitability? Many companies run with less than a 10% profit to start with. You can do your own math on what this will mean to you. However, the CPI effectively tracks the loss of the purchasing power of the consumer dollar (including what they can buy with their labor) and the U.S.

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Will Members-Only Bed Bath & Beyond Be Able To Compete With The Coupons?

PYMNTS

“But really, we need to be working, and we are working on becoming a lot more intelligent about our marketing and making it much more personalized.”. And those losses are catching up, with share price declining about a quarter this year. But then, customers like that aren’t a major profit driver for Bed Bath & Beyond.

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Nonprofit Accounting Basics for Founders, Board Members & Executives

The Charity CFO

You can grasp nonprofit accounting basics in just a few minutes, even if you’ve never taken an accounting course (and even if you hated math in high school). The basic accounting principles for nonprofit organizations are the same as accounting for for-profit companies. . Examples of nonprofit expenses: Rent. Office supplies.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

KLINSKY: You know, and what we were doing was basically advising Goldman clients how to take their own family businesses back off the stock market. KLINSKY: There had been stagflation, where the stock market was lower in ‘81 than it had been in 1968. And you know, incredibly depressed market, super high interest rates.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. And then I was looking for something more applied.