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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. The good news is, new technologies are enabling a seamless data migration process and ensuring the structure of the data is consistent in the manner it needs to be maintained and accessed.

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Recommended Resource – Built to Sell

Strategy Driven

These include: offering products and services employees or technologies can deliver in the owner’s absence. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear. specializing in doing one thing better than anyone else.

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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

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. With cloud implementation you'll be able to go wherever your business takes you by accessing it from different technologies, too. Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

Technology companies have very few assets so they’ll often have high ROAs. So profit as reported on the income statement is a product of the art of finance and any ratio based on those numbers will itself reflect all those estimates and assumptions,” he says. Banks, Knight says, tend to have low ROAs around 1%.

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A Refresher on Debt-to-Equity Ratio

Harvard Business Review

You take your company’s total liabilities (what it owes others) and divide it by equity (this is the company’s book value or its assets minus its liabilities). But if it’s too low, it’s a sign that your company is over-relying on equity to finance your business, which can be costly and inefficient.

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Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.