Friday, March 22, 2013

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Monday, December 3, 2012

Understanding the Degree of Operating Leverage

The operating, or “fundamental,” risk of a company is the risk a company faces because of the business it is in.  For example, the profits a firm makes depend on the demand for its goods and the costs of producing the goods, so it inherently faces the risk that costs could increase and/or demand could fall, which would affect the profits of the firm. Operating risks result from the investment decision of the firm, and are separate from financial risk,...

Taming Big Data with the Interactive Financial Statement Analysis Module

Big data refers to the amount of data a typical organization now processes to solve business problems.  This rapidly developing area is reshaping approaches to business education as has recently been discussed in Business Education Journals such as BizEd (November/December 2012).  For example, in their lead article “Where Technology meets Business” it was observed that:  “… in today’s world, where everyone can buy databases, technology alone isn’t a competitive advantage.  The advantage rests in how an organization uses it....