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Some Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Having trouble starting out your SWOT analysis? Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses.

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Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Having trouble starting out your SWOT analysis? Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses.

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The Microfinance Contagion Scenario

Harvard Business Review

Losses in AP will overwhelm many institutions' equity cushion. The average debt-to-equity ratio of the 10 largest MFIs in India is 7.06 , indicating an average 12% equity cushion. But just rescheduling debt payments may not be enough. At the prevailing ratios, management failed to act prudentially.

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What You Don’t Know About Sales Can Hurt Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

In my experience, most CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite executives involved in strategy formulation know these finance basics. (Or, Smartly reducing assets devoted to activities that earn less than their cost of capital requires good links with evolving market realities. ( Or, they learn fast after a few investor meetings.)

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Return-on-equity hurdles threaten them all. Conversely, why market cigarettes? DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Brown noted a simple fact: Return on equity can be broken down into a three-part equation. Social media spending?

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