Leading Blog
AUGUST 20, 2019
Realizing that you can gain education from both environments allows an opportunity for you to thrive as an employee and manage a successful side hustle. As a result of limited job functions in a large corporate environment, it doesn’t give you the full breadth of work involved in successfully managing an enterprise.
Niagara Institute
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
You’re sitting at your first meeting as a new member of your organization’s management team. The head of finance is talking about cash flow, debt to equity ratio, and EBITA. You are thrilled to be in this new role and faced with new responsibilities outside of the functional job you once excelled in.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 13, 2015
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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2011
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. In microfinance, just as in corporate finance, one of the key ratios driving investors is the debt-to-equity ratio.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
Hence, the customer-selection criteria of sales managers, and call patterns of sales reps, directly impact the first value-creation lever: which projects the firm invests in. But creating value also requires senior executives to get more serious and knowledgeable about performance-management issues in sales. But consider the basics.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 15, 2018
This notion is reflected by statements such as “We have seen similar examples of driven, competent men who take risks and manage to make it thrive,” and “He has proven to sustain his persistence all the way.” Debt-to-equity ratio (leverage): the degree to which an entrepreneur exposes his or her business to risks.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
If your business has $2,750 in current assets and owes $1,174 in current liabilities (again, you can pull these figures from your company’s balance sheet) then the current ratio is: (Note that the ratio isn’t usually expressed in a percentage). ” But the ratio can also be too high. Most require that it be 1.1
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