Navigating the complexities of financial metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is crucial for any business aiming to carve out a path to success. These metrics are not just numbers complementing the company’s financial statements; they represent the heartbeat of a business, indicating health, potential risks, and growth opportunities. By mastering these tools, you can gain invaluable insights into your business operations, guiding strategic decisions that propel your company forward.

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With employee stress, burnout, and mental health challenges at an all-time high, many leaders are working overtime (literally) and digging deep within themselves to find ways to support those who report to them. Given the extraordinary pressures these leaders face themselves, their care for and commitment to staff members is inspiring. And yet, in some cases, their efforts are having the unintended consequence of thwarting career development – a workplace benefit that’s increasingly important to workers today.

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Profitability ratios are key indicators of a company’s financial health and performance. They provide insights into a company’s margin, return on investment (ROI), and ability to generate cash flow.

Various profitability ratios can be used to assess a company’s financial health. However, not all of them are equally important. Some ratios are more relevant to certain industries than others.

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A frequent dinner-time question when my children were young was, ‘If you could have one superpower, what would it be?’ (followed by, ‘Do I really have to eat my vegetables?’) After a thoughtful exploration of super-human strength, telekinesis, invisibility, telepathy, shapeshifting, and x-ray vision, I always settled on ‘seeing the future’.

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In this segment of Rapid Fire, Joe Connors, a seasoned CFO turned premier banker, tackles 5 questions on funding and banking from Steve.

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