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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Brian DeChesare

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. In my view, corporate finance jobs are not ideal “stepping stone roles.”

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The Sustainability Dividend: A Primer on Sustainability ROI

Harvard Corporate Governance

Accurately measuring sustainability ROI can be challenging: corporate sustainability teams should start the process by aligning their language with that of the corporate finance function. Discussions on the value of sustainability will continue, making it essential for companies to measure sustainability ROI.

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The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications!

Musings on Markets

In fact, the business life cycle has become an integral part of the corporate finance, valuation and investing classes that I teach, and in many of the posts that I have written on this blog. In 2022, I decided that I had hit critical mass, in terms of corporate life cycle content, and that the material could be organized as a book.

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Share Repurchases on Trial: Large-Sample Evidence on Market Outcomes, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Finances

Harvard Corporate Governance

Kothari is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management; and Parth Venkat is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business. Posted by Nicholas Guest (Cornell University), S.P.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

Join Wayne Spivak, experienced CFO and corporate finance expert, for an insightful discussion on managing cash flow and company profitability. Attendees will walk away with an in-depth understanding of the following: What is accounting?

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The Oscillating Domains of Public and Private Markets

Harvard Corporate Governance

These developments have caused much discussion, with some commentators again seeing a fundamental shift in the relevance of public and private markets for corporate finance and alarmed regulators. In particular, financial history shows various boom-and-bust periods in private market activity (see Kaplan & Strömberg, 2009 ).

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Dains corporate finance team hits national top 20 after ‘landmark’ Q1

Accountancy Today

Dains has revealed that its corporate finance team has officially entered into the national top 20 of deal advisers for the first time, following a “landmark” first quarter. Roy Farmer, corporate finance partner at Dains, said: “Q1 has been a fantastic start to the year for the corporate finance team and the wider Dains Group.