Chief Executive

MAY 26, 2022

Manage your business “on the basis of cash, not on the basis of accounting,” Charan said, reminding his audience that Jeff Bezos built Amazon into a multi-billion-dollar company partly by putting cash on the throne of his operating philosophy. Accounts receivable and inventories are the two areas of biggest concern. Beware cash traps.

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Peter Winick

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In addition, we can help you implement marketing, research, and sales. So as you can imagine, that was tragic in itself and affected sales quite a bit inside of a clothing that just nobody was out shopping for a period of time. You know, sales are way, way down. Contact us for more information. Let’s go.

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Zenefits

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

If you have reservations about how well promotions and sales will do during this holiday’s inflation-threatened season, you have every reason to feel uncertain. Inventory surpluses (along with shortages) are leaving businesses with too many products on their balance sheets. No account yet? It’s November. Remember Me.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

After I was quoted late last year in an article on the 10th anniversary of the Enron debacle , Fastow contacted me and offered to speak to the Financial Statement Accounting class I teach at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Enron's $35 billion in off-balance sheet debt looks puny compared to the $1.1

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

“Finance and accounting are very simple. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. “It’s not that complicated.” “There’s no magic.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Increasingly, consumers on the floor know more than the sales staff about the store's products and price points — and competing offers. Shouldn't all shoppers receive customized shopping recommendations, based on past behavior, integrated with their online accounts and delivered to their mobile devices?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

There are several ratios you can look at that will help you evaluate whether your company can generate sales and control its expenses. ” Another reason you might see a very high ROA is if a company is messing with its balance sheet, explains Knight. “Sales are subject to rules as to when the revenue can be recorded.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Finance & Accounting Tool. That statement records cash generated by a company’s operations and cash spent on those operations; cash spent on capital assets (and cash generated by the sale of capital assets); and cash received from, or paid to, lenders and shareholders. You have to account for the time value of money.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Plus, the same measures that yield such efficiency gains also offer myriad other benefits , from improved employee health and retention, to better sales and lease-up rates, to enhanced brand reputation. These are often overlooked on balance sheets but can generate significant extra value for companies. Invest in smart controls.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

billion, blaming $5 billion of the writedown on improper accounting. Right now, regulators are investigating whether Autonomy actually engaged in improper accounting. KPMG, the big accounting firm, was helping HP with its due diligence by inspecting Autonomy's books. Financial numbers, though, are different.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Home Depot ’s hack, compromised 65 million customer credit and debit card accounts. The company later announced loss in sales, but this has been tied more to a pattern of low profits in the last few years since the company’s merging with Kmart, than to the October data breach.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balance sheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

Experience has taught me that the art of good M&A requires a combination of careful research, emotional intelligence, and attention to detail that might otherwise get overlooked; due diligence requires more than a scan through boxes of contracts and reviewing the balance sheet. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

These factors have led to questions over the quality of banks’ balance sheets and whether many of the loans extended in recent years can actually be repaid, raising further doubts over the sustainability of the debt-fueled model. The third is the tax system. If the party leaders do tackle these reforms, success is far from assured.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Using analytics, organizations have deployed bigger data sets, cheaper cloud computing power, and more aggressive algorithms to successfully standardize previously non-standard processes such as sales and service, making them more repeatable, predictable, and amenable to analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Proponents of downsizing argue that it is an effective strategy, with benefits such as increased performance and sales. We also accounted for the number of acquisitions in the previous five years (since downsizing often occurs after acquisitions) and industry differences.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

For example, the European central bank, which by law is prohibited from financing government spending, could simply credit the bank accounts of all tax-paying euro zone citizens. Firms in the euro zone are desperate for higher sales; price increases would be corporate suicide in the current, intensely competitive economic environment.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Using analytics, organizations have deployed bigger data sets, cheaper cloud computing power, and more aggressive algorithms to successfully standardize previously non-standard processes such as sales and service, making them more repeatable, predictable, and amenable to analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet. Its function is to grow companies by turning active economic activity into static bags of capital; in doing so, it has taken a liquid medium necessary for our economy’s circulation and frozen it in corporate accounts.

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Peter Winick

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Recognizing its potential during a Mastermind session, she and her team developed a groundbreaking AI tool to simplify and analyze messy small business balance sheets. Accountants, CPAs, and referral partners are already helping bring her vision to life. The format for PNL balance sheet has not changed.

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Chris LoCutro

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I share why reconciling accounts, preparing for taxes, and analyzing financial performance are crucial steps. They've not done a really good job reconciling their bank accounts. And the reason why is because most of the time, a lot of business owners have not been trained to do their accounting properly.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Upon acquiring a business, companies have to value the different assets they acquired for their accounts and balance sheet in accordance with accounting and reporting standards. The percentages come from fair value assessments done by purchase price allocation experts according to established accounting standards.

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