CFO News Room

JANUARY 13, 2023

Following that rule book, I looked at the effects of inflation on the levers that determines value, in the graph below: Put simply, the effects of inflation on firm value boil down to the impact inflation has on expected cash flows/growth and risk. Looking Back.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Good Reasons for Borrowing What are the pluses and minuses of borrowing, if you take a clear-eyed look at it just as a capital source? In much of the world, governments have written tax codes that do exactly this, by making interest payments on debt tax-deductible, while requiring that cash flows to equity be made out of after-tax cash flows.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Impact Investing: The What, The Why and the How! In response, I have been told that the problem is not with the idea of ESG, but in its measurement and application, and that impact investing is the solution to both market and society's problems. That is the question that I hope to address in this post.

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Spreadym

AUGUST 17, 2023

Real-time Data : Depending on the level of automation and integration with data sources, financial reporting dashboards can provide up-to-date information on various financial metrics, such as revenue, expenses, profits, cash flow, and more. revenue, expenses, cash flow) or other categories that are relevant to the CFO's role.

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2023

What is ERM? Risk of Insufficient Liquidity The initial facet of liquidity risk involves whether businesses possess sufficient cash reserves to meet their financial obligations. AI offers continuous monitoring, streamlined reporting, and predictive analytics for overseeing cash across bank accounts.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 27, 2022

41, and note that this valuation incorporates the proceeds from the IPO and adjusts the share count for the offering. I summarized my valuation in a picture: I valued the company at close to ?41, 50, per share, with plausible stories, but that valuations that were much higher required pushing the limits of plausible narratives. higher (i.e.,

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I will confess that I know very little about the Adani Group, and I have nothing invested financially or emotionally in the company’s fortunes. While each of these businesses is operated by a stand-alone Adani company, the businesses flow through a holding company, Adani Enterprises.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

4), plus cash consideration of $11.33 The two companies said they anticipate adjusted EBITDA of more than $120 million for 2020. This was building, but what telehealth likely required was a catalyst, COVID-19 has now been that catalyst that pushed it… right over the edge.”. Under the terms of the $18.5 per Livongo share.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 20, 2022

Following that rule book, I looked at the effects of inflation on the levers that determines value, in the graph below: Put simply, the effects of inflation on firm value boil down to the impact inflation has on expected cash flows/growth and risk.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As I look at accounting from the outside, I see the primary role of accounting as recording and reporting, in a consistent and standardized form, the answers to three basic questions: What does a business own? What does the business owe? Specify the contractual commitments that a business has to meet, to stay in business.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2019

Uber’s updated price range was already less than what many thought it would be, and it sheared off some of its expected market value, which some analysts expected to be as high as $100 billion. Uber’s S-1 filing showed an adjusted ebitda loss of $1.85 billion last year, and also highlighted slowing revenue growth.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In terms of mechanics, there has still been no disclosure about how many shares would be on offer, or at what price range. But connecting the dots of the food delivery landscape, the recent fates of money-losing “disruptor” firms in the public markets may give a hint of what’s at stake, and what’s to come, should an IPO indeed come to pass.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

What is risk? I do believe that, in finance, we have significant advances in understanding what risk, I also think that as a discipline, finance has missed the mark on risk, in three ways. In this post, I look at risk, a central theme in finance and investing, but one that is surprisingly misunderstood and misconstrued.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

The dividend principle, which is the focus of this post is built on a very simple principle, which is that if a company is unable to find investments that make returns that meet its hurdle rate thresholds, it should return cash back to the owners in that business.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

In response, people have fallen into two groups, with the Adani family and its supporters arguing that the short selling report is a hit job by a "foreign" entity to bring down not just the company, but also the country, and others noting that the report just reinforces what has troubled them about the company's meteoric rise in the last decade.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2018

Cash&Carry Smart Foodservice announced it is rebranding to the name Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores. This new name is a much more accurate reflection of who we are and what we do,” said Derek Jones, President of Smart Foodservice and Executive Vice President of Smart & Final. In addition, its gross margin increased 9.9

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

What was the original career plan? What, what was it that made you say, Hey, this finance thing looks like it’s fun and interesting? The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Michael Fisch, American Securities , is below. 00:00:07 [Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest. You get a Stanford MBA.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income. The proverbial bottom line for success in business is the capacity to deliver profits, at least in the long term.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

After a buzzy open, when the stock jumped from its offering price of $30 a share to $42, the stock has quickly given up those gains and now trades at below to its offer price. With that said, it is clear that the debate about intangibles has become more intense in the last two decades.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After years of rumors of an imminent IPO, Instacart has finally filed for a public offering of it’s shares, aspiring to raise about $600 million from markets, at a pricing of about $9-$10 billion for its equity. If home delivery is chosen as the option, a driver (who, in many cases, is also the shopper) delivers the groceries to the customer's home.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income. The proverbial bottom line for success in business is the capacity to deliver profits, at least in the long term.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Cortex will complete the deal through a cash payment of $4.75 million subject to customary holdbacks and adjustments, and a promissory note in the amount of $2.25 This acquisition is aligned with what I have shared previously regarding our growth strategy through both M&A transactions and organic growth.”.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, what can I say, Rick Rieder runs fixed income at BlackRock. So when I graduated Wharton, you know, I wasn’t one of those people who had — you know, my family was on Wall Street and I didn’t really know what direction I was going in. RIEDER: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio [ Ritholtz ] 00:00:07 This week on the podcast, what can I say? . ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio [ Ritholtz ] 00:00:07 This week on the podcast, what can I say?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. But I think the, what I said in two minutes was compelling enough that it went on further. The low price stock fund now runs about $25 billion. He’s just a legend. In, in the interim.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What can I say? I, I’m kind of fascinated by your background, and before we get into what you do, we have to talk a little bit about how you got to where you are today. That what, tell us what you were doing with Forest River. That what, tell us what you were doing with Forest River. Once again?

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