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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Fifth, once root causes are identified, an actionable and specific lesson learned is developed. It may require further development of a plan or program to address the root cause. But how is this done?

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Why Sit on All that Cash? Firms Uncertain on Cost of Capital

Harvard Business Review

AFP conducted the Cost of Capital Survey in October 2010 and received answers from 309 chief financial officers, treasurers, vice presidents-finance, and assistant treasurers. Only 46 percent use the perpetuity growth model, while 27 percent develop an explicit cash flow forecast for the entire life of a project.