Ramp reports nine strategies to enhance cash flow, emphasizing timely invoicing, spending controls, and effective inventory ...

Discounting a future cash flow expresses future returns in today's dollars. This allows a fair comparison between initial business expenses and your expected or realized returns. As an example, you ...

Discounted cash flow (DCF) is a method used to estimate the future returns of an investment. It takes into account the future value of money -- the idea that a dollar that is ready to be invested now ...

A discount rate is a percentage rate that investors use to measure the value of future cash flows in today's dollars. A discount rate has a wide variety of applications in terms of analyzing ...

Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor:Ariba. The latest BriefingsDirect podcast, from the 2012 Ariba LIVE Conference in Las Vegas, explores ...

If you own a retail business or restaurant, the price is the price. Customers rarely try to negotiate. But if you own a service business or function largely B2B, negotiation is a way of life. For most ...

Sunk costs are relevant for determining historical financial data but don't affect determinations of cash flows. By definition, sunk costs are costs that occurred in the past and cannot be changed.

Some long-used financial-engineering techniques now bring renewed scrutiny.

We believe Stride (NYSE: LRN) stock merits attention: It is expanding, generating cash, and presently offered at a ...