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Tag Archives: Finance
The Widening Scope of Spend Analysis: Procurement to Finance
Spend analysis is the process of collecting, cleansing, classifying, enriching, and analyzing expenditure data. In the past, spend analysis was primarily conducted to analyze procurement spend. However, of late, because of its many benefits, the process is increasingly being leveraged … Read More…
What’s Next for the Chinese Yuan?
On February 17th, in a significant announcement by Chinese authorities, plans to allow domestic trading of Yuan options against other currencies from April onwards were rolled out, with the fundamental aim of assisting Chinese exporters and importers hedge against currency … Read More…
Tags analytics, Business Planning, business strategy, China, Emerging Markets, Finance, Financial Research, Knowledge Process Outsourcing, Marketing Comments Off
Is There Any Value in Forecasts?
With most companies either in or rapidly approaching their business planning cycles, executives and analysts alike are hard at work trying to predict how the next fiscal year will unfold, making a range of decisions from where best to focus … Read More…
Tags analytics, business leadership, Business Planning, Business Process Outsourcing, business strategy, credit crunch, Finance, Financial Services, Forecasting, fundamental research, Growth Strategy, Investments, Knowledge Process Outsourcing, KPO, Management Consulting, Outsourcing, Procurement, research, Strategy, Supply Chain, Wall Street outsourcing Leave a comment
Asset Bubbles and Bursts: The Re-emergence of Rational Valuation
Aswath Damodaran, the famed NYU finance professor and High Priest of quantitative valuation, shares a lot with Edward Altman, his equally famous colleague at NYU. (Damodaran penned “Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset”, a … Read More…
Tags analytics, Automotive, business leadership, business strategy, Corporate Restructuring, credit crunch, Distressed Investments, Finance, Financial Research, Financial Services, fundamental research, Investments, Knowledge Process Outsourcing, KPO, research, Strategy, Strategy Research, US Auto Parts, Value Investments, Wall Street outsourcing Leave a comment
“Is it Safe?” The Outlook for Investment in Emerging Markets
There’s a classic scene in the 1976 hit movie, The Marathon Man, in which Laurence Olivier, playing a skilled dentist who is also a Nazi war criminal, is torturing a young Dustin Hoffman. Using his medical know-how and some frightening … Read More…
Awaiting The Green Revolution…
At a recent address to the NYU Money Marketeers, a New York-based association of financial market participants, Kenneth Volpert, head of the Fixed Income Group at Vanguard, reviewed just how far and how fast the credit markets had improved since … Read More…
The (Ir)rationality of Markets
The Financial Times recently reported on a recent survey by the British Chartered Financial Analyst Institute of its members, which found that an increasing proportion believed that markets did not behave rationally: The British CFA recently asked members for the … Read More…
The Credit Crunch and Outsourcing
The recent tumult in the markets – and its reverberations from Wall Street to Main Street – have made the business news channels compulsive viewing for executives across the globe. One group of professionals that have been keeping a close … Read More…
The Smart Cube Financial Services Survey : Implications of The Credit Crunch
Listen or read any news site or publication over the last several months and talk of the economy is never far behind. Recession or no recession, individuals and corporations alike are clearly acting as if we are in one. Housing … Read More…



