There has been extensive media coverage on the resurgence of leveraged buyouts (LBO’s), including a recent cover story, “The Buyout Binge” in the April issue of “CFO Magazine.” Nine of the top ten LBO’s were recent, and then there was the 1988 acquisition of RJR Nabisco by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. I showed a segment of […]
I haven’t posted in the last three months to this blog because of a heavy teaching load at NYU School of Continuing Professional Studies, where I teach “Fundamentals of Corporate Finance.” Here are five questions from a practice exam I recently gave to my students; how many of these can you solve? 1. If a […]
I haven’t posted in the last three months to this blog because of a heavy teaching load at NYU School of Continuing Professional Studies, where I teach “Fundamentals of Corporate Finance.” Here are five questions from a practice exam I recently gave to my students; how many of these can you solve? 1. If a […]
A Balanced Scorecard is used to regularly monitor a business’ success on a number of fronts: Sales Pipeline, Marketing Spending, Client Effectiveness, Process Improvements and Financial Results. With such balanced reporting an organization is really forced to own up to its weak points and take actions. But because a Balanced Scorecard covers so many functional […]
If your business has not yet created a budget for 2007, it is still worth taking the time to do so. Having a budget gives a comparison basis for each month’s actual results, to see where you are ahead and behind pace. To make your budget a more useful management report, try to group p&l […]
The University Venture Fund(UVF) recently announced that it has some $18 million to invest in new and growing companies, “Entrepreneur” reported. The UVF has deep ties to Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, Westminster Collge and Wharton School of Business. “We don’t mandate that capital go to alumni,” says managing director Jared Hutchings, “But […]
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