Corporate Financial Planning – Financing Gazelles

The NFL’s Long Term Financial Goal

July 1, 2018August 21, 2018 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.…

Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Process Change

May 9, 2018August 16, 2018 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…

What Drives Up Multiples in Enterprise Value?

February 5, 2018March 6, 2018 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Corporate Financial Planning: What Drives up Multiples? 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 EV is What…

Calculating Enterprise Value: Corporate Financial Planning

January 10, 2018March 6, 2018 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,…

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

December 12, 2017August 16, 2018 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…

Leveraged Buyout Single Buyer – Get Quality Financial Projections!

October 27, 2017March 6, 2018 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…

How Do You and Your Team Use Corporate Financial Planning?

May 27, 2017March 6, 2018 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…

Failure Is Not An Option

January 20, 2017March 6, 2018 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

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 set…

The Wonder of Bras: Tales From Hollywood Boulevard

March 9, 2016March 6, 2018 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

[caption id="attachment_397" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Wonder of Bras[/caption] Recently we were asked to consider sitting on a panel for an executive conference of growing companies, and of course, we jumped at the chance. But, one of the “corporate sponsors” (i.e. an investment banking firm) quacked at the thought of it,…

Weekly What If: Testing The Capital Markets Before Accessing The Markets

March 4, 2016August 16, 2018 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

As the financial markets began to unravel late in summer of 2008, many financial institutions stopped funding new investments. This directly impacted all sorts of companies and their ability to get new financing. For us, a corporate financial consulting firm that raises capital for growing companies, this was a particularly…

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