Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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Profit and Loss

CFO Thought Leader

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The company operated two businesses: one generating about $30 million in EBITDA, while the other incurred annual losses of roughly $10 million. Gronen proposed a strategy to merge the two operations, consolidating efforts to increase profitability. Our AI tools help identify suspicious activities, reducing the risk of financial loss.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

CFO Plans

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It’s imperative to track financial health indicators, such as cash flow statements, balance sheets, and profit and loss accounts. Learn how CFO Plans can help you monitor these vital signs. Sustainable growth strategies ensure that every step forward is backed by careful planning and financial stability.

Cash Flow Forecasting

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The focus of my writing has always been on markets and companies, more micro than macro, and I am sure that you will find my spouting off about who I voted for, and why, off-putting, much as I did in his cycle, when celebrities and sports stars told me their voting plans.

Marketing

Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Anthony Noto Global Winners By Sector Financial Institutions: UBS In 2024, UBS showed strong net profit and high client activities. The bank plans to repurchase $1 billion in shares in the first half of 2025 and an additional $2 billion in the second half. Lyndsey Zhang Healthcare: J.P. Morgan J.P. billion valuation.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

E78 Partners

JUNE 16, 2025

Whether it is poor post-close planning, misjudged synergy estimates, or ineffective communication across teams, failure tends to follow patterns. More often, they fall apart in execution when integration plans lack structure, teams are misaligned, and critical dependencies are overlooked.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Without good financial planning, even a profitable company can run into trouble. Getting insurance to cover unexpected losses. By planning, companies can avoid big financial problems and stay strong even when unexpected challenges arise. Paying dividends Giving part of the profits to shareholders.

Corporate Finance

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The first was the response that I received to my last data update , where I looked at the profitability of businesses, and specifically at how a comparison of accounting returns on equity (capital) to costs of equity (capital) can yield a measure of excess returns.

Marketing

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had a number of fascinating roles in Wall Street, which is kind of amusing considering she had no interest in working on Wall Street, and yet she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein. Tell us what, what the career plans were. Lisa Shalett : Not at all.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Was finance and investing always part of the plan? And essentially decided to pivot from that original plan because it became clear to me as I got older that to really make a living as a concert pianist, you need to be the top 1% in the world. So during my time there, I was probably employee number four or five. Absolutely.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

What was the career plan? Because what we would do is we would parachute into places like British Airways, Montreal Trust Ca Industries, and we were like the external strategic planning. And I kept roughly half the profits and there was no training. Oh my God profit. Not, not for me, $500 trading profit.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 18, 2025

Net Debt to Equity = (Debt-Cash)/ Equity Debt to Capital = (Debt-Cash)/ (Debt + Equity) All of these ratios can be computed using accounting book value numbers for debt and equity or with market value numbers for both.

Currencies

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

What was the career plan? I, my dad’s a economics professor and so economics seemed like a good undergraduate plan, but frankly at the time my real plan was to go play professional baseball. We took that number the 15 times before we die. Then you use the profits from that to buy a second boat.

Investments

The Big Picture

AUGUST 11, 2025

He’s written five number one bestselling books, including Tools of the Titans. What, what were the original career plans? So the original career plan was actually neuroscience. How can you avoid making those permanent losses? W was this ever part of the original game plan or did just this just evolve over time?

Startups

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

startled investors with a sharper-than-expected decline in profits and a gloomy outlook in its first earnings report since Chief Executive. and Canada, two of the company’s most profitable markets, the results show. billion profit for the fourth quarter, below analyst expectations of $10.9 Facebook parent. Meta Platforms Inc.

Profit and Loss

CFO Simplified

APRIL 17, 2022

As Iowa State University reminds us, “profitability is the primary goal of all business ventures.”. Business leadership is often responsible for measuring current, past, and future profitability. But what is profitability? This CFO Simplified client watched profitability slowly disappear—until they incurred a $125,000 loss.

General Ledger (GL)

PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

With its losses mounting, the London-based digital bank may need to tap into its corporate reserves to keep up with its expansion plans. The company posted a total loss of $139.6 Revolut attributed the losses to its expansion into new markets and the introduction of new products. million (£106.5

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Jedox Finance

JANUARY 12, 2022

The answer to these questions and more: a solid financial plan. What is the corporate financial planning process? What is the goal of corporate financial planning? The importance of financial planning for your company. Types of corporate financial planning. Steps in the financial planning process.

Planning

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Secondhand eCommerce platform Poshmark filed for an initial public offering (IPO) after posting more than $30 million in profit across two consecutive quarters. “We We only recently became profitable and have experienced net losses. The Silicon Valley startup posted a net loss of $14.5 million last year.

Profit and Loss

Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty. Your company needs to make plans for the future. This statement provides information about whether your business can generate a profit by reducing costs or increasing revenue.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Starbucks — The Seattle-based coffee company jumped nearly 9% after reporting quarterly profit and revenue that topped expectations. Block — Shares jumped 10% after the mobile payments company surpassed profit and sales expectations in its third-quarter results.

Profit and Loss

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A new merchandising leader undertook a review of brand profitability and saw that the company was actually losing money on its La Perla sales. The company debated whether it was worth carrying a brand that consistently created losses. What do these two examples have in common? What is a Customer-Base Audit?

Profit and Loss

Fpanda Club

JULY 24, 2022

They tend to avoid losses and prefer to keep the things as they are rather than invest in risky innovation. Discovery driven planning Another weakness of the DCF model not discussed previously in this article is its sensitivity to assumptions. As for established market players, they demonstrate much higher threshold of proof.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In June, HSBC resumed its plans to cut around 35,000 jobs after the plans had been temporarily put on ice during the pandemic. The pandemic had further cut into the bank's already dwindling profits, Reuters writes, and chief executive Noel Quinn said the cuts were necessary to help HSBC profits improve.

Profit and Loss

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, has seen its profits plunge in the first six months of 2020, squeezed by low interest rates and the COVD-19 pandemic, The Telegraph reported. billion, six times the number of defaulted loans last year as layoffs have hurt customers’ ability to repay debt. Pre-tax profits fell to $4.3

Profit and Loss

PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Uber, the ride-hailing company, plans to pour its profits into expanding its products and investing in technology in emerging markets. BGR , citing an email penned by Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, reported the company will reinvest profits in emerging markets, including India, so it can beef up Uber Eats and JUMP.

Profit and Loss

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was planning to start this post by telling you that Tesla was back in the news, but that would be misleading, since Tesla never leaves the news. First, when you see significant disagreements about what Tesla is worth, those differences come from divergent stories, not disagreements about numbers. billion on revenues of $95.9

Valuation

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Sportswear giant Under Armour reported a third-quarter profit of $38.9 Patrik Frisk, president and CEO of Under Armour, told The Baltimore Sun that the company is focused on returning to profitability and is planning to invest in eCommerce and company-owned retail outlets. . The deal is valued at up to $345 million.

Sales

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Duncan Burgess’ “number one passion” in his role is people. This meant everyone felt empowered to make the appropriate decisions to drive the company’s profitability”. “By So, success always comes back to the people,” says Duncan, who is a Global Finance Director. . Global issues affecting finance.

Finance

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Uber reported a net loss of a whopping $1.78 billion during Q2 2020, a decline from Q2 2019’s net loss of $5.24 Uber’s show loss of $1.02 Uber’s show loss of $1.02 The most interesting and discussed numbers, however, were in Uber’s ride-booking and delivery figures during the quarter. per-share deficit.

Profit and Loss

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

But starting up a mobile operation is just one half of a potentially profitable coin. Step 2: Minimize Mobile Fraud Losses. This, unfortunately, supposes that revenue losses to fraud can be completely eliminated. Step 3: Reduce The Cost Of Mobile Fraud Prevention.

Profit and Loss

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Chinese eCommerce platform Pinduoduo plans to raise up to $5.6 The company plans to offer up to 25.3 But a China-based analyst told the Financial Times that while the Chinese were frequent shoppers of agricultural goods, which would help boost Pinduoduo’s user numbers, the business was low-margin.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

The real estate company has also been gradually selling off shares in its side ventures as it tries to maximize its profits. 22) that the company was honing in on its 90-day game plan to divest all of the businesses not directly central to the company’s core, which would hopefully turn WeWork’s troubles around.

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Jedox Finance

JANUARY 19, 2023

Find out how to tap into the power of a great plan in an interview with Kevin Alansky, Jedox Chief Marketing Officer. Read the conversation below to learn what leaders and teams in every organization should know about optimizing their planning and performance management processes to reach Superplännen – an elevated state of planning.

Profit and Loss

CFO Simplified

AUGUST 7, 2023

Too often business owners are forced to make exit decisions without any advance planning based on factors that are largely out of their control including health, divorce, and owner disputes. According to the Estate Planning Institute, 80% of U.S. As stated by the Exit Planning Institute , exit planning is a smart business strategy.

Valuation

PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Analysts at Citi said the retailer’s performance beat expectations, and that despite the COVID-19 disruption, Primark still plans to open 10 new stores this year. Bezos noted that the added costs for the eCommerce giant will likely equal the amount of money Amazon would have expected to have earned profits in typical times.

Retail

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Though Grubhub confirmed it had been meeting with financial advisors to explore a number of possibilities, including acquisition, a spokesperson asserted that “there is unequivocally no process in place to sell the company, and there are currently no plans to do so.”. The firm reported an adjusted earnings loss of $4.2

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