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Some Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Technological (pace and changes in technology). Opportunities and Threats. Cultural (values, ethics).

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A Refresher on Debt-to-Equity Ratio

Harvard Business Review

In fact, analysts and investors want companies to use debt smartly to fund their businesses. That’s where the debt-to-equity ratio comes in. What is the debt-to-equity ratio? “It’s a simple measure of how much debt you use to run your business,” explains Knight.

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Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Technological (pace and changes in technology). Opportunities and Threats. Cultural (values, ethics).

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Financial managers, supported by their bankers, increased their debt-to-equity ratios until capital requirements were imposed—oops, we mean until there was a catastrophic financial crash and a depression. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor? Then banking regulations were imposed.

ROE 12