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Find models that represent the various aspects of a business, such as its operations, marketing, and sales. Financial modeling involves using historical financial data and other relevant information to create projections of future financial performance, such as revenue, expenses, profits, and cash flow.

These analyses can help you plan for the future, make investment decisions, evaluate the impact of different business scenarios, understand how different factors affect overall performance, and identify areas where you can improve efficiency and profitability for yourself or your organization.

The basics of risk analysis in the enterprise

Risky business – bad news? Not necessarily. While the word risk has a negative connotation for some, it’s a source of business opportunity for others. Good risk analysis ...

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Making management enthusiastic about decision support software

If extensions to your business modeling activities depend on convincing upper management of the utility of business decision support software, then a few ‘selling’ tips may help.

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Operational risk scenario analysis & the bullwhip effect

If you’ve ever experienced a small change at the retailing end of a supply chain that provokes massive turbulence upstream, there’s a good chance you’ve suffered the bullwhip ...

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Deterministic or Stochastic – Which business modeling should you present?

Aaah… if only someone had written a program to automatically choose the type of modeling for any given business situation. Perhaps somebody has and it is buried somewhere ...

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Business modeling needs more than spreadsheet dinosaurs

Huge body, tiny brain. Those were prominent characteristics of dinosaurs and part of their DNA. Those that were unable to cope with changes died out, although they had a good run ...

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Desperately diving for pearls of great price

You would be shocked to learn how fast you can make it to the bottom of a lake with a cinder block tied to your leg. I know this rate, by my own empirical investigation, to be ...

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Marginal vs. effective tax rates

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney released his tax returns, and the news channels were abuzz with commentary about his effective federal tax rate of 13.9% on $21.7M of income.

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