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This document summarizes key lessons learned from an accounting course for managers. It covers topics like economic profit, business continuity planning, important financial ratios to analyze companies, understanding different types of costs, and how to properly allocate indirect costs. The summaries are meant as a high-level "cheat sheet" to help with current and future roles.
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The document discusses key lessons learned from a business strategy course. It presents a strategy framework that includes context, strategy, action, and results. For context, it examines the broad environment, industry, and firm. For strategy, it considers ends like mission and vision, and means like capabilities and value proposition. Actions are required to carry out the strategy. Results from each action should be monitored and fed back into future strategic work.
Lessons learned mis - s5
This document provides key takeaways from a course on managing information technology in the digital enterprise. It outlines that organizations should invest in four main areas of information technology: infrastructure and operations, existing systems, emerging technologies, and strategic projects. However, the notes are a draft and not intended as a full outline of the course material.
Lessons learned marketing - s2
This document provides key lessons learned from a marketing management course. It includes brief summaries of topics like:
1. Products and services, including product mix, categories, and new product development phases.
2. Branding, including positioning, points of parity/difference, and brand imagery.
3. Product distribution channels and dealing with channel conflict.
4. Market research approaches from the buyer's perspective, including defining objectives, developing a research plan, collecting and analyzing data.
Lessons learned management - s3
The document provides lessons learned from a course on change management, leadership, and cross-cultural management. It outlines keys to successful management including managing power, ideas, and tension. A framework is presented for assessing situations, planning work, making strategic decisions, and focusing on the right priorities. Managers are advised to develop their people, remove obstacles, and look for ways to promote employees.
Lessons learned investment mgt - s4
This document provides key lessons and takeaways from an investment management course. It discusses important concepts like returns and risk, including standard deviation, Sharpe ratio, alpha, and beta. It also covers bond pricing, how various factors like coupon rate, yield to maturity, and duration impact bond prices. Additionally, it discusses bond portfolio construction and how duration and maturity impact risk.
Lessons learned hr - s6
The document provides an overview of key lessons learned from a course on strategic human resource management. It summarizes several linked HR processes and models like pay and benefits. It also outlines several important employment laws regarding at-will employment, ADA, FMLA, FLSA. Additionally, it discusses job analysis and design, succession planning and development, training frameworks, performance evaluations, and defined benefit retirement plans.
Lessons learned econ - s1
1) The document discusses key lessons learned from a microeconomics course including factors that influence firm boundaries such as economies of scope and scale.
2) It also covers market structures like monopoly, perfect competition, and oligopoly. Metrics for measuring market concentration include the Herfindahl index.
3) Porter's Five Forces framework and value chain are presented for industry analysis.
Lessons learned corporate finance - s5
1) The document outlines key lessons learned from a corporate finance course, including that companies should choose projects and capital structures that maximize shareholder value.
2) Capital budgeting involves finding and analyzing long-term investment projects using techniques like payback period, NPV, and IRR to select projects that maximize shareholder value.
3) When raising external equity or debt, companies should consider the various financing options and terms to minimize their overall cost of capital.
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Lessons learned accounting - s1
- 1. Lessons Learned Accounting
- 2. Disclaimer This is not intended to be a condensed outline of the course, but simply what I took as key takeaways. In some courses there are many areas discussed that aren’t contained in these slides, as they are items I was already familiar with and didn’t feel the need to document or felt they wouldn’t be useful to me in my current career. I think of these as my “cheat sheet” of material that can help me in my current & future roles and are DRAFT…like Google’s Beta are subject to change – Matt Crane Ballou, Brian & Heitger, Dan. (2009). Course presented on Accounting for Managers. Miami University, Oxford & Cincinnati, OH.
- 3. Economic Profit (EVA) • Considers cost of capital • Better profit indicator than profit/GM/etc • Need to consider non-financial measures as well (BSC)
- 4. Business Continuity • Crisis = low probability x high magnitude of loss • Plan: – Avoid – Prepare to manage crisis – Recognize the crisis – Contain – Resolve – Learn & Profit from
- 5. Key Financial Ratios • ROA = NI/assets • Current = curr assets/curr liab. • ROE = NI/equity • Debt ratio = debt/assets • GM = sales – COGS/sales • Debt-Equity = debt/SH equity • AR period = 365 x AR/sales • Divident payout = dividends/NI • Inv turns = COGS/avg inv (in days) 365/inv turns • AP period = 365 x AP/COGS
- 6. Costs • Don’t forget to include Indirect costs with Direct costs (use appropriate allocation) Total Costs • When evaluating options: consider direct, indirect, and opportunity costs • Also consider break-even analysis