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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes. Remain flexible for growth.

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Green Bonds Benefit Companies, Investors, and the Planet

Harvard Business Review

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. How the stock market responds. The issuers’ stock price increases around the announcement of green bond offering, indicating that investors expect the bonds to contribute to shareholder value.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash. The insurance company would repay the money market investor’s post note of $970, yielding a $30 profit for both the insurance company and the investor.

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What is the importance of pre-money valuation For Your Business?

Strategy Driven

With the contribution of cash to the balance sheet of a business through the shareholder value, the post-money value becomes stronger due to the additional cash earned. A pre money valuation is crucial for financing as eventually, it can decide if an entrepreneur has the starry, strong and bad, or sometimes has no way out.

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Warren Buffett's 2010 Shareholder Letter: What to Expect

Harvard Business Review

Establish "an unbending standard of performance" : Since 1965, Buffett has annually compared Berkshire's compounded growth in book value per share to the growth in the S&P 500 (plus dividends). But why compare apples (book value) to oranges (share price and dividends)? billion more than their total tangible book value.

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

— and comparing that to what you made this years in terms of profit. ” Perhaps it’s not investing in new machinery and equipment, which will damage its long-term prospects, no matter “how good its ROA may look at the moment.” Expenses are often a matter of estimation, not to say guesswork.

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