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Corporate Financial Services

Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Process Change

May 9, 2023April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey
Chris Risey
Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Business Process Change The Value of a Business Process Change: When thinking about strategies that significantly increase enterprise value, our minds tend to immediately think of strategies that grow revenues like adding a new product, investing more in sales resources or acquiring another…
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management buyout

What’s Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked Financial Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

December 12, 2022September 21, 2023 by Chris Risey
Chris Risey
Available Cash: What's Your Available Cash?  An important, overlooked FINANCIAL KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Available Cash?  I recently got asked by a CFO a question, I thought worth sharing. "How much cash should we maintain on our balance sheet in our business’?  I believe its good for companies to have…
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Corporate Financial Consultant

Corporate Finance Advisory is what we do!

March 13, 2019July 12, 2022 by Jennifer Mooney
Jennifer Mooney
We receive a lot of inquiries, but today one came through that I immediately replied to. First of all, I love it when women reach out to Lantern, and it warms my heart that it came from a high school student. Lantern Capital Advisors specializes in corporate finance advisory services…
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The NFL’s Long Term Financial Goal

July 1, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey
Chris Risey
In 2010 NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell set a goal of achieving $25 billion in total revenues by 2027. At the time the league was generating $8.5 billion in annual revenue so I thought that was a pretty audacious. It equated to $1 billion increase per year in revenues until 2027.…
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What Drives Up Multiples in Enterprise Value?

February 5, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey
Chris Risey
Corporate Financial Planning: What Drives up Multiples? Chris Risey Last newsletter, I provided a short (as I could) explanation of how to calculate enterprise value (EV) and why EV is an important topic for internal planning, valuing private company acquisitions, management buyouts and partner buyouts. A common follow-up question I get related to…
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Revenue Based Financing

Calculating Enterprise Value: Corporate Financial Planning

January 10, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey
Chris Risey
Corporate Financial Planning and Calculating Enterprise Value Calculating Enterprise Value:  A key aspect to corporate financial planning is looking beyond just driving revenue growth to ensure the Company is growing its value. There are multiple ways to value a business and they are all academically correct; however, there is one methodology,…
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Acquisition Strategies

Leveraged Buyout Single Buyer – Get Quality Financial Projections!

October 27, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey
Chris Risey
Leveraged Buyout Single Buyer - Management Buyout Consulting Leveraged Buyout Single Buyer:  Provide Multi-Year Financial Projections: Owners of growing companies often get approached by prospective buyers, even when they are not looking to sell. Suddenly, they are faced with a leveraged buyout from a single buyer. But owners that engage…
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Determining Value of A Company

Determining Value Early On is a Good Idea for Business Partners

June 7, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey
Chris Risey
Partner Buyout:  Determining Value Early On is a Good Idea for Business Partners I was recently asked if I could help a company develop a valuation methodology for their business so that if one partner wanted to buyout the other, they would already have an agreed up on formula valuing…
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A Key Question to Avoid Problematic Lenders and Investors

How Do You and Your Team Use Corporate Financial Planning?

May 27, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey
Chris Risey
Corporate Financial Planning:  How Do You and Your Team Use Corporate Financial Planning?   Do you have a financial planning process that improves your business planning process?  There are numerous ways to apply corporate financial planning to drive more growth and value in your business. If you want help or…
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Failure Is Not An Option. Move Your Cheese.

January 20, 2017April 24, 2024 by Jennifer Mooney
Jennifer Mooney
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYsFUFgOEmM[/embed] If you haven’t seen the ad by Chrysler featuring Enimem, well, we want to share it with you, provided that You Tube doesn’t take it down... What does your company know about luxury? The finest things in life. Especially when the questions are asked by someone that has never…
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