What's Behind the Numbers?: A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in Your Portfolio


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Learn how to detect any corporate sleight of hand—and gain the upper hand with smart investing Investing expert John Del Vecchio and “Motley Fool” Tom Jacobs offer a compelling arguement that the secret to stock-market success today isn’t finding the next Google or eBay, but avoiding the next AIG or Enron. To that end, they offer simple, clear techniques for detecting when and how legitimate companies make their numbers look better than they are. What's Behind the Numbers? offers seven rules for finding companies playing with—rather than by—the numbers and explains how to avoid losing money by determining exactly when a stock is about to head south. John Del Vecchio, CFA, serves as a Principal of Ranger Alternative Management and principal of Parabolix Research, Inc. Tom Jacobs is lead advisor for the Motley Fool Special Ops, a stock service where he manages a special situations and opportunistic portfolio. He is cofounder of Complete Growth Investor LLC.




Managing By The Numbers


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The essential guide to understanding financial reports, for entrepreneurs, managers, and business owners Do you get complete financial reports for your business at least once a month? Do you understand what all those numbers mean? Do you use the information in those reports to help you make smart decisions about your business? If you answer "no" to any or all of these questions, then turn to Managing by the Numbers, a highly practical and accessible antidote to financial anxiety. Chuck Kremer, Ron Rizzuto, and John Case show you how to manage the three bottom lines of business financial performance -- net profit, operating cash flow, and return on assets -- and roll them into the "Financial Scoreboard" to see the big picture at a glance. Offering step-by-step examples and an extensive glossary of key terms and concepts, Managing by the Numbers is a commonsense guide to making those numbers work for you -- to monitor and measure performance, make smart decisions, and drive long-term growth. It is an essential resource for anyone eager to improve their mastery of the financial side of running a business.




Your Number's Up!


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Summary: This book will help you create a measurement roadmap including benchmarking to improve return on investment for ecommerce in D2C (direct to consumer), covering where to start, measuring campaigns, diagnosing your trading, interpretation of data and additional resources. Struggling with all the metrics and data in ecommerce then this is the book for you This book is aimed at those who work in direct to consumer (DTC) digital who are involved or have responsibility for an ecommerce website. Foreword by Avinash Kaushik - We want to empower those new to ecommerce, to illustrate the potential measurement has and how this can make a big difference to your ecommerce website's performance - For those experienced in ecommerce, we wanted to provide you with a list of metrics and to help you present the right information to your leadership so they take notice There’s a saying, what gets measured, gets done. But in a digital world that’s constantly evolving, metrics too need to be reimagined as customer behaviors and expectations change. Ben guides readers through digital measurement maturity to rally the entire organization around what matters, better outcomes for customers and driving meaningful business growth.” Brian Solis Global Innovation Evangelist Salesforce, and author of LifeSCALE Highlights from the book We want people who read this book to understand the importance of measurement, how it can point you in the right direction and you grow your ecommerce revenue. We have outlined this in the book with the following items: - 4 different levels of digital measurement maturity and checklists on how to improve - The specific metrics aligned to maturity and job role in the organisation - How to organise your team to measure and action your data - Learn to build your digital benchmark - Understand how to diagnose trading and campaign performance We want people to create a culture of measurement, and think about measurement before any project starts and not after the website has gone live. Every day measurement is not in place, you are completely blind to what your website visitors are doing and what you need to do to generate more profit. This book is for: - Chief Digital Officers - Senior leaders in digital - Heads of Ecommerce - Media teams - CRM teams - Traders - Merchandisers - Heads of finance




The Number


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Backed by imaginative reporting and insights, Eisenberg urges people to assume control and responsibility for their standard of living, and take greater aim on their long-term aspirations. Not an investment guide, this is a revealing look at common financial and emotional conflicts and how to control them.




Got Your Number


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ESPN personality (Get Up and #Greeny) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partners with mega-producer Hembo to settle once and for all which legends flat-out own which numbers. In short essays certain to provoke debate between and amongst all generations, Greeny uses his lifetime of sports knowledge to spin yarns of the legends among the legends and tell you why some have claimed their spot in the top 100 of all time. Sports and numbers go hand in hand. Sports and loud, assertive debate? Even better. Cheering on, agonizing over, and being in plain awe of your favorite players has left you with a deep and intricate memory of their greatness, not to mention well-honed arguments as to why your favorites are really the best. In arenas, in front of your TV, and in bars, you've debated friends and strangers alike. You've joyfully mocked your friends' (sometimes laughable) favorites. You've spouted accomplishments, statistics: Yours won six titles, batted .350 in the clutch, or generated 82% of their team's scoring. But not all numbers are created equal. Some are accomplishments. Others are identity. Looming large over any image you have of an athlete: the number on their jersey. Numbers often provide the most visceral parts of any sports legend's identity. They are what people remember—worldwide. Jordan, Jeter, Brady—to fans, they are as much their number as they are anything else. Sure, 1 through 100 might seem like a large range, but fierce competition across the ages has blessed only a lucky few to claim one of these as their own. For some, the victors may not be so obvious. That's why Greeny's here to help. Ascend into discussion, fans of all stripes. Come away enlightened. Or maybe a little enraged. Either way, you are sure to be occasionally surprised—and endlessly entertained. Whatever your sport, welcome to the place where all the arguments are finally decided, once and for all.




Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!


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Simple Numbers can guide you to increased business profitability Take the mystery out of small business finance with this no-frills guide to understanding the numbers that will guide your business out of any financial black hole. Author Greg Crabtree, a successful accountant, small business advisor, and popular presenter, shows you how to use your firm's key financial indicators as a basis for smart business decisions as you grow your firm from startup to $5 million (and, more ) in annual revenue. Jargon free, and presented in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format, with plenty of real-world examples, Crabtree's down-to-earth discussion highlights the most common financial errors committed by small businesses, and how to avoid them. You'll be fascinated to learn: Why your numbers are lying to you (and why you are the cause ) How labor productivity is the key to profitability and simplifying human resource decisions Why the amount of tax you pay is your #1 key performance indicator Take advantage of Crabtree's years of experience teaching clients how to build successful businesses by ''seeing beyond numbers'' with this step-by-step guide to increasing your businesses profitability.




Financial Management 101


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Financial Management 101 covers business planning, from understanding financial statements to budgeting for advertising. The second edition contains a brand new chapter on pricing your product or service.




How Numbers Control Your Life and Give Your Life Purpose


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After twenty five years of dedicated research by the author, the Genetic and Cosmic Number Codes - labeled as "secret mysteries" and hidden for centuries by secret societies - are now revealed in this book. THE NUMBER 13 IS NO LONGER A MYSTERY! Everything that happens in the world is governed by the law of "cause and effect". We don't simply "have" accidents, illnesses and problems (generally referred to as bad luck). We cause these tragedies due to mass ignorance of WHEN and HOW the number 13 comes into our lives, WHAT "cause and effect" scenario it triggers, and what we can do to alleviate these painful events. This information has been utilized for centuries by an elitist few who thrive on your "bad luck" - the ignorance of the masses. Knowledge is Good Luck, Ignorance is Bad Luck".Believe it or not, you do have a choice! Don't let the number 13 work against you. You can maintain your youthful vigor and appearance by making the number 13 work for you. Read how others have benefited from the knowledge in this book. Change your luck starting today and help your loved ones with this knowledge.




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What's Your Number? 6 Steps to a Secure Retirement


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The 80+ million baby boomers due to retire over the next couple of decades face an overwhelming array of options and decisions related to work, money, health care, lifestyle and more. The clock is ticking. Retirement is closer than you think! In the past, retirees could count on a "three-legged stool" of retirement benefits: Social Security, pensions and personal savings. Today, that future is threatened with the issues surrounding Social Security, the decline of defined benefit plans, the abysmal personal savings rate and longer life expectancies. In "What's Your Number: 6 Steps to a Secure Retirement," Kathryn Alexander explains the six steps you need to take now in order to secure your retirement. This must have planning guide offers tips, techniques and worksheets on how to build your retirement nest egg, generate income to last your lifetime and avoid many common retirement planning mistakes.