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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Alex Lhéritier , Global Head of Working Capital Solutions at Kyriba , says: “Ensuring a two-way transparency and trust can prove essential to a leader in a constantly changing environment. Shared values between colleagues, clients, or customers create long-lasting professional relationships based on trust and integrity.

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The Most Common Mistake People Make In Calculating ROI

Harvard Business Review

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. True ROI analysis has to convert revenue to profit, and profit to cash.

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What are the Best Working Capital Loan Options in 2019?

Strategy Driven

If you are operating a start-up, you may face problems with managing the cash flow of your business efficiently and may have to rely on working capital loans. Working capital loans are not utilized for long periods or the purchase of noncurrent assets due to their short repayment period.

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What to Know Before You Sign a Payment-by-Results Contract

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes, measuring the results can involve a substantial amount of data collection and analysis, and the measurements are often in dispute. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too. Making PbR Work.

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

It's an example of an organization seeking to meet this challenge of scale by providing top-tier, in-kind expertise and working capital to promising social enterprises. Despite national government support, analysis again showed that plans to grow nationwide would prove an expensive way to deliver local programs.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

And because my husband and I were the providers of working capital, I had the luxury of being cavalier. What I learned from this disastrous magazine venture is that we need to do a thorough SWOT analysis not only on the market opportunity, but also on our partners. No, no, no , I cried. We'll figure it out," I would tell her.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. In parallel, it reduced its fixed costs by restructuring its industrial footprint and overhead structure; increasing sales, marketing, and R&D expenditures in targeted areas; and dramatically reducing working capital.