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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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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

Created in conjunction with Carbon Tracker , the study lays out a plan for mobilizing much more capital toward building the clean economy. Economy Finance Sustainability' Hundreds of financial executives gathered, including some heavy-hitters, from state comptrollers to executives from large pension funds to former U.S. coal market.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. One CFO commented that they now avoid inviting company accountants to their strategy meetings, while another said that CPA certification is considered a disqualification for a top finance position.

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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

Estimating the rate at which to discount the cash flows — the cost of equity capital — is an integral part of the exercise, and the choice of rate has a significant effect on estimates of a project's or a company's value. One of the architects of the survey, Mark Scott, is also one of its beneficiaries.

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Why Sit on All that Cash? Firms Uncertain on Cost of Capital

Harvard Business Review

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. Download this pdf for an executive summary, or login here for the full report.)