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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

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For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

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“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. What if revenue was higher? Related Video.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

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household participates in 29 different loyalty programs, according to the 2015 Colloquy Loyalty Census. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. Loyalty programs have long relied on cobranded cards and partnerships to sell points and generate incremental revenue.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balance sheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers). In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S.

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As European Banks Retreat from the World Stage, China Is Stepping Up

Harvard Business Review

China’s four largest banks have quadrupled the share of foreign assets on their balance sheets since 2007 to $1 trillion—that make gives them larger foreign portfolios than German or Italian banks. China has risen from 16th place in 2005 to 8th in 2015. But developing economies are rising up the rankings.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

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In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in its power business.) Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago. of the company.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

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According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. In recent years, both companies exhibited compressed margins, flat revenue growth, and lagging returns. Example: Jolly Inc.