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Last week, a well-known writer wrote an article where he basically said, “businesses are in the business of maximizing shareholder value and just that.” Oh, really? What about customers? Businesses are not in the business of producing products or services that customers will buy? What about your communities and the surrounding environment? Maybe you don’t believe…
There’s a new financial trick going on whereby a company acquires a foreign company and then moves headquarters to the foreign country where taxes are lower. So instead of doing the hard work of improving the business by delivering what customers want at a sustainable price, corporations do financial shuffling of headquarters. The problem is:…
This past week my boss and I have been working together on the budget file, in preparation for the budget season. There’s a lot of talk in the news, especially in the career section, about the need to be able to collaborate, and that’s exactly what we did the past week. She has extensive knowledge…
This topic falls in the realm of finance in a very obtuse way: it falls in the realm of making money. Since I’m always interested in how people make money or how businesses get and stay profitable, this topic hits my radar. A week or so ago, there was a flurry of articles concerning how…
Short post today – it’s running late now. I read earlier today about CFOs and big data: namely that CFOs oversee a lot of data and are in the prime spot to take advantage of this new buzzy business method. The article also said that just data alone is useless – one needs to add…
Everybody talks about big data and analytics, (my understanding is that they are related but not the same thing) but we have probably been doing some form of analytics all along. Analytics is just a snazzy term for analysis which has always been around since man has a brain. Big data is a term that…
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