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Why Is Cash Flow Important To Survive In Our Tough Business Climate?

Growth Institute

It’s time that your entire management team learns the importance of your business’s cash flow story. Your entire management team must access and understand your cash flow story. And in my next article, we’ll dig into decisions your management team can make to improve that story. Profit is sanity. Cash is king or queen.

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HR Finance 101: A Guide To Finance for HR

AIHR

On the other hand, HR is responsible for recruiting, motivating, and managing the people who advance those goals. HR professionals need to be knowledgeable about preparing and managing the budgets of all departments in the company. A credit increases a liability or equity or decreases the value of an asset or expense in an account.

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Future-Proofing Your End-To-End Supply Chain For 2023

Chief Executive

Across our client base, we are seeing several organizations evaluating assets amongst utilization shortfalls or considering adjacent markets to counter relatively clear consolidation plays. Establish cash management ‘standards’ in supply chain and operations. Cash is Queen, more so during times of recession and inflation.

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A Refresher on Current Ratio

Harvard Business Review

The current ratio measures a firm’s ability to pay off its short-term liabilities with its current assets. So your current assets are things that you could convert into cash within the year. They may also include your accounts receivable, inventory, and accrual payments, depending on your business.

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What You Don’t Know About Sales Can Hurt Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

There are basically four ways to create that value: (1) invest in projects that earn more than their cost of capital; (2) increase profits from existing capital investments; (3) reduce the assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital; and (4) reduce the cost of capital itself. But consider the basics.

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A Refresher on Debt-to-Equity Ratio

Harvard Business Review

You take your company’s total liabilities (what it owes others) and divide it by equity (this is the company’s book value or its assets minus its liabilities). The reality is that most managers likely don’t interact with this figure in their day-to-day business. Here’s how the formula looks: Consider an example.

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To Guard Against Cybercrime, Follow the Money

Harvard Business Review

A cybercriminal might impersonate a CFO or CEO, and then send an email to accounts payable asking for a wire transfer, or to HR requesting a dump of employee tax information. What suppliers or partners have access to your digital assets? Integrate email security into your organization’s risk management program.