Litigation Medical doctors with the covering of their insurance company are seen in the western world as easy targets for litigation. In some cases the plaintiff is an opportunistic gold digger however in others the doctor truly messed up. Mess up in IT and you get a couple of bugs that HOPEFULLY are picked up […]
Big Data applications are moving from their search engine origins to the affordable commercial realm, providing dataphiles with sharp new tools to dissect and analyse massive volumes of electronic data. What is even more impressive than this sexy new technology is the marketing hype. I recently read a Big Data article in Forbes referring to […]
Its mid 2012 and the marketing drums are beating, pushing their message to sceptical enterprises. There is a shiny new toy in town and its name is BIG DATA. In a style that Donald Draper of the Mad Men TV series would be proud of, sensationalist headlines like “it is almost too late for big […]
Business Intelligence systems can track, interrogate and analyse data in all three time periods: PAST: Historic data that provides an indication from where you have come. It is static and whilst it can be used for analysis, trending, benchmarking etc, it has a small impact on your organisation’s current performance. For the sake of comparison, we […]
Author: Unknown Used For: Accounting, KPIs, Measuring Cash Flows Overview The Cash Flow from Operations Ratio is a method that helps to determine a company’s short term liquidity, or whether or not it is able to pay off its current liabilities. One may also say that the cash flow from operations ratio is a measure […]
Author: Anelda Used For: Accounting, KPIs, Measuring Cash Flows Overview Cash Value Added Ratio is a financial measure to gauge the amount of cash generated by a company through its operations. It’s also known as the Cash Value Added, CVA or the Cash Value Added Model. It is used by investors to measure the capability […]
Author: HOLT Value Associates Used For: Accounting, Financial Management, KPIs Overview It is not easy for potential investors to draw any significant conclusions about the health of a company based purely on accounting earnings. Accounting data can sometimes be misleading and so cannot be completely relied upon to give a realistic picture of the economic […]
Author: N/A Used For: Accounting, Financial Management, KPIs Overview The Cash Ratio (CR), also known as the Liquidity Ratio or Cash Asset Ratio, is a measure of a company’s immediate liquidity, i.e. its ability to pay off all its liabilities immediately without having to sell off any of its inventory. The cash ratio is considered […]
Author: Wilfried Krüger Used For: Change Management Overview The Change Management Iceberg deals with the both the apparent and unseen barriers to change in an organization. It was developed by Wilfried Krüger and attempts to force management to look at the hidden challenges required to implement change. The Change Management Iceberg is best implemented by […]
Author: Edward I. Altman (1968) Used For: Predicting Bankruptcy; liquidity measurement ratios Overview The Z-Score Formula was devised by Edward Altman in 1968 to calculate the likeliness that a firm will enter bankruptcy within a period of two years. The formula uses common business ratios derived from income and balance sheets against weighted coefficients to […]