Scenarios
In last week's MBA Mondays, I introduced the topic that we'll be focused on for the next month or so; projections, budgeting, and forecasting. In that post, I described projecting as a "what if" exercise that is done at a [...] Read more
Price: Why Lower Isn’t Always Better
I want to tackle the issue of forecasting and projections next in the MBA Mondays series but I don't yet have an outline in my head of how I am going to approach this critical subject. So I am taking [...] Read more
Key Business Metrics
The past five MBA Mondays posts have been about accounting concepts, financial statements, and related issues. I don't know about all of you, but I'm a bit tired of that stuff. So I'm moving on to something a bit different. [...] Read more
Cash Flow
This week on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about cash flow. A few weeks ago, in my post on Accounting, I said there were three major accounting statements. We’ve talked about the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet. [...] Read more
The Profit and Loss Statement
Today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about one of the most important things in business, the profit and loss statement (also known as the P&L). Picking up from the accounting post last week, there are two kinds [...] Read more
The Profit and Loss Statement
Today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about one of the most important things in business, the profit and loss statement (also known as the P&L). Picking up from the accounting post last week, there are two kinds [...] Read more
Accounting
I'm making up the curriculum for MBA Mondays on the fly. The end game is to lay out how to look a businesses, value it, and invest in it. We started with the time value of money and interest rates, [...] Read more
Piercing The Corporate Veil
Yet another MBA Monday topic comes from the comments of last week's post. This series is turning into a conversation which makes me very pleased. Mr Shawn Yeager said: As a recovering lawyer, and a serial entrepreneur, I constantly have [...] Read more
Corporate Entities
I'm taking a turn on MBA Mondays today. We are moving past the concepts of interest and time value of money and moving into the world of corporations. Today, I'd like to talk about what kinds of entities you might [...] Read more