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. Prior claims.

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Chief Executive

MARCH 17, 2023

And for guidance about all the different avenues you have for money to make money, to find ways to open new market, you should have a relationship attached to them. Companies should always have a 13-week cash-flow forecast and should consider stress-testing scenarios for how the next 13 weeks might play out.

Banking 52

Banking Cash Flow Insurance Risk Management 52

Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In the US, approximately 6501 ESOPs hold a total asset of $1.4 They do this by granting them the option to buy company shares at a lower price than the current market value. With ESPPs, employees are allotted a certain number of shares in the company at a discount to the stock's Fair Market Value (FMV). Can an ESOP Lose Value?

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Benefits Cash Flow Compensation Sales 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

There are people who disagree with that adage, of course, some saying that cash and cash flow are more important (and too often ignored). Let’s start with return on assets. What is Return on Assets (ROA)? “ROA simply shows how effective your company is at using those assets to generate profit.”

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Assets Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking 14

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.

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Cash Flow Assets Revenue Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as intellectual capital and customer relationships. Companies spend countless hours tracking financials: assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses, and cash flow.

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Cash Flow Assets Metrics Reorganization 16

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. How can that be when the same information about the stock's underlying company and markets are available to both?

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Cash Flow Benchmarking Assets Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). equity markets* on BusinessWeek's 2008 list ended up underperforming broader market indices between March 2008 and March 2013. Until they do, at least be wary of the next company that graces a magazine cover.

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Cash Flow Assets Benchmarking Sales 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

A key target for Ceres’ work, and the main audience at the conference, is the group of institutional investors who manage tens of trillions of dollars in assets for long-term performance. ” The value of the companies owning and managing those assets, the logic goes, will plummet. coal market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in cash and short-term investments — and my sense from looking at the numbers for the past couple of quarters is that it could probably be making some money, too (that is, generating positive free cash flow), if that were a priority. The company has piles of money — $3.6 And the company’s latest (Oct.

Marketing 13

Marketing Cash Flow Software Media 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Creating economic value is a logical governing objective for a company that operates in a free market system. More-specific financial drivers vary among companies and can include earnings growth, cash flow growth, and return on invested capital. Companies may choose a different objective, such as maximizing the firm's longevity.

Banking 18

Banking Cash Flow Metrics Government 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

You can avoid this issue entirely by investing cannily in assets with long-term value and, thus, extremely long hold periods. Buy things with sound cash flow and — theoretically — "hold-forever" potential. What is the market context? Ask yourself if this is a buyer's or seller's market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. Furthermore, few PE investors explicitly use the capital asset price model (CAPM) to determine a cost of capital.

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Cash Flow Engineering Government Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Cash Flow Transportation Balance Sheet Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Team members had researched the market thoroughly. It used a unique asset that gave the company a leg up over competitors. It employed a business model that would make it very difficult for the current market leader to respond. You’ve told me it’s a big market, but I’m not sure yet what we get out of this.”.

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Cash Flow Assets Scaling Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. And more fundamentally, does marketing actually work? Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. What is Marketing ROI, and How Do Companies Use It? Avery explains that it is also referred to by its acronym, MROI, or as return on marketing investment (ROMI).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Startups can tap the venture capital market. Corporations can go to the general capital markets by issuing stocks or bonds. I call this idea "innovation capital markets," and it''s a system that''s a hybrid of venture capital, general capital and corporate budgeting. The inspiration for this idea came from the show Shark Tank.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It is big in terms of the total corporate assets that are being re-assigned to new owners. Alternatively, if I sell my car to an Uber driver, or the owner of a taxi medallion, that same asset may be put to a different use and become more valuable to customers or society. The last common source of joint value is future options.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Google and its disruptive advertising model leads the pack with a $370 billion market capitalization, but consider also companies like Facebook ($225 billion), LinkedIn ($25 billion), Twitter ($24 billion), TripAdvisor ($11 billion), and Yelp ($3 billion). The combined market value of those four companies? Scripps, McClatchy, and A.H.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The fossil fuel divestment movement — an increasingly popular approach with environmentalists — primarily tries to convince pension funds, university endowments, and other asset holders that their investments in oil and coal are unethical because of impact of fossil fuel emissions on the world’s climate.

Cash Flow 8

Cash Flow Assets Energy Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The fossil fuel divestment movement – an increasingly popular approach with environmentalists — primarily tries to convince pension funds, university endowments, and other asset holders that their investments in oil and coal are unethical because of impact of fossil fuel emissions on the world’s climate.

Cash Flow 8

Cash Flow Assets Energy Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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Metrics Cash Flow Revenue Compensation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Financial leverage (assets over equity). equity markets* on BusinessWeek's 2008 list ended up underperforming broader market indices between March 2008 and March 2013. Until they do, at least be wary of the next company that graces a magazine cover.

Cash Flow 10

Cash Flow Assets Benchmarking Sales 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

They greatly admire companies that come up with breakthrough ideas and talk about them in glowing terms, boosting their market valuation. They should be banging the drum for companies that make bold long-term investments, increasing their market value and spurring them on. Return on assets. Cash flow return on investment.

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Cash Flow Assets Revenue Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

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Banking Small Business User Experience Cash Flow 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

It is true that that breaches are expected and have become a regular cost of doing business, but there are deeper reasons for the market’s failure to respond to these incidents. A widely accepted notion goes that there are only two types of companies: those that have been breached and those that don’t know they have.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Cash Flow Metrics Revenue Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Airbnb is an example of a win-win quality improvement: landlords realize more cash flow from their assets, and customers gain both better choice and lower costs in their travel lodging options.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Cash Flow B2B ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

These divisions all generated consistent earnings and cash flows. The company also had three divisions — Water, International, and Merchant Investment — that were saddled with underperforming and over-valued assets. A typical SPE requires a company to make cash payments to the SPE if its assets fall in value.

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Balance Sheet Assets Cash Flow Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Community financing refers to a form of cash-flow that channels the financial resources of the savers of a community into the well-being of that community via economic activities, which members of the community believe should be undertaken and therefore willingly supports with their savings. It is something I call community financing.

Banking 13

Banking Cash Flow Small Business Accounts 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. public market capitalization over this period. The differences were dramatic. Earnings quality: Accruals as a share of revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In essence, the fortunate firms took on more debt, committing the business to a stream of cash flows and expenses far into the future to pay for their losses. Others were unable to borrow to replace lost assets and address other operating needs, compromising their earnings potential. Challenge risk financing conventions.

Insurance 13

Insurance Risk Management Small Business Cash Flow 13

Chris LoCutro

MARCH 5, 2024

And you're looking at the p&l all the time, you're looking at cash flow all the time, you're looking at sales projections all the time, you're looking at expense reports all the time. Is this market going to change? And you're sitting there, maybe you're in an unhealthy place cashflow wise, within your business.

Small Business 59

Small Business Operations Accounts Energy 59

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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Benchmarking Metrics Advertising ROI 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

In some companies this will be seen as seeking recognition where it's due but in others it will be interpreted as amassing assets at the expense of the company in times of low cash flow," says Barankay. Money can't buy you love. Some people give bonuses because they want people to feel good about the company," says Daniels.

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