Zenefits

JUNE 29, 2022

With tight cash flow and an uncertain market, small businesses can be financially ruined by a disastrous, unexpected lawsuit or accident. Insurance is often renewed annually, and coverage changes year-to-year depending on the market and insurance company benchmarks. And it’s more common than you think. Business size.

Small Business 52

Small Business Insurance Compensation Onboarding 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

With a record $2 trillion in cash and short-term liquid assets on hand, U.S. Fully 79 percent of companies, including 91 percent with annual revenues greater than $1 billion, use discounted cash flow techniques. More than one-third of organizations forecast explicit cash flows for the first 10 years of a project.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Assets Revenue Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. To make sure they're comparing apples to apples, they discount those future cash flows to arrive at their net present value.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Benchmarking Assets Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). One challenge today is that few companies have these numbers at their fingertips, and the lack of common definitions and publicly available statistics makes benchmarking difficult. Simple questions, like "what defines an idea?"

Cash Flow 17

Cash Flow Assets Benchmarking Sales 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

For instance, despite the prominent role that discounted cash flow valuation methods play in academic finance courses, few PE investors use discounted cash flow or net present value techniques to evaluate investments. Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Engineering Government Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

For example, when it comes to driving shareholder value, there are two fundamental components of cash flow: profitability and growth. Take, for example, a company with a 5% return on assets (ROA) and a 12% growth rate. Should you invest equally in both? If not, which of these two should get the nod?

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Benchmarking Assets Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). One challenge today is that few companies have these numbers at their fingertips, and the lack of common definitions and publicly available statistics makes benchmarking difficult. Simple questions, like "what defines an idea?"

Cash Flow 10

Cash Flow Assets Benchmarking Sales 10