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How Cash Connects With Everything Else: Understanding a Cash Flow Statement
Berman, Karen; Knight, JoeBook Chapter HBS-6559BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationYou can calculate a cash flow statement just by looking at the income statement and two balance sheets. The information you'll learn by going through the exercise in this chapter can be invaluable. It will contribute to your understanding of how to be cash flow positive. This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers."Starting at €8.20
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A Strategic Approach to Sustainability
Rosenberg, MikeArticle ART-2850-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, StrategyThis article explores how senior managers might choose to address the challenge of environmental sustainability, not just for the sake of it being a moral imperative, but to perform their fiduciary responsibilities and to prepare their companies for the disruptive changes that the future holds. Given the gulf between how senior managers perceive the world and how activists, journalists and legislators see it, the path toward better environmental ...Starting at €8.20
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Homing In on Cash Conversion
Berman, Karen; Knight, JoeBook Chapter HBS-3842BC-EThe cash conversion cycle, introduced in this chapter, measures how effective a company is at collecting its cash. The cycle can be shortened by the techniques discussed: decreasing days of sales outstanding (DSO), decreasing inventory, and increasing days payable outstanding (DPO). This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers."Starting at €8.20
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A Primer on the Art of Finance: For Entrepreneurs
Berman, Karen; Knight, JoeBook Chapter HBS-6545BC-EIf you're like a lot of entrepreneurs, you may be a little mystified by the idea that finance is partly an art. But understanding the "artistic" aspects of finance is key to developing financial intelligence. This chapter examines how financial professionals make estimates and assumptions using accruals and allocations, depreciation, and valuation. This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs."Starting at €8.20
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Leverage Ratios - The Balancing Act: Financial Leverage for Entreprenuers
Berman, Karen; Knight, JoeBook Chapter HBS-6563BC-EIn a small entrepreneurial company, debt can be a big part of what owners think (and worry) about. This chapter focuses on financial leverage (the extent to which a company's asset base is financed by debt) and two ratios: debt-to-equity, and interest coverage. This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers."Starting at €8.20
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Revenue - The Issue is Recognition: Entrepreneurs Need to Understand the Possibilities and Pitfalls
Berman, Karen; Knight, JoeBook Chapter HBS-6548BC-EThe issue of when a sale can be recorded is one of the more artful aspects of the income statement that entrepreneurs need to learn. This chapter explains the often murky guidelines accountants use for recording and recognizing a sale and identifies some areas you should keep an eye on where manipulation of the numbers sometimes occurs. This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs."Starting at €8.20
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You Are no Longer a Technical Specialist: Senior Managers and Technical Specialists: Two Ways of Working
Vázquez- Dodero, Juan Carlos; Fraguas, Rafael; Palencia, Luis; Rosenberg, Mike; Weber, Eric; Stein, GuidoTechnical Note ASNN-14-ELeadership and People ManagementManagers take decisions whose contents are the everyday work of the people they manage. By their very nature, managers deal with their subordinates' liberty; as such their decisions must be prudential. This case is based on the case from Juan Carlos Vázquez-Dodero, Rafael Fraguas, Luis Palencia, Mike Rosenberg y Eric Weber, "You are not a Technician", ASNN8, IESE, 2005.Starting at €8.20
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Using Scenarios to Plan for Tomorrow
Rosenberg, MikeArticle ART-2079-EStrategyWhile business planners often resort to forecasting to estimate outcomes at some future point in time, the author believes forecasting has serious limitations and is not a reliable guide for the long-term future. Instead, he recommends scenario planning as a superior way of envisaging the future, in order to help managers see the business environment more clearly and make better strategic choices. Using the considerable experience of Shell in thi...Starting at €8.20
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D-Orbit: Keeping The Thermosphere Clean
Pipan, Gregor; Tiraturyan, Armen; Massa, Lorenzo; Rosenberg, MikeCase SM-1610-EStrategyD-Orbit is an entrepreneurial start-up operating in the aerospace industry, developing a technology for the controlled removal of end-of-life debris from space. The case focuses on the nexus between strategy and (space) sustainability. The emphasis of this case is given to the role of the private sector (in this case entrepreneurial start-ups) in tackling sustainability issues by converting them into opportunities for profits. The case triggers d...Starting at €8.20
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The Building Blocks of ROI: How to Calculate and Understand Return on Investment
Berman, Karen; Knight, JoeBook Chapter HBS-6566BC-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis chapter discusses foundational principles, including the time value of money, for making decisions relating to capital investment in corporate America. To be a successful entrepreneur, you must understand the basics of spending cash in the hope of realizing a return - like buying a new machine or software application. This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers."Starting at €8.20