Posts Tagged "Stock"

Business Accounting Basic: What’s earnings per share(EPS)

Posted by on Oct 16, 2011 in Finance 101 | 0 comments

Business Accounting Basic: What’s earnings per share(EPS)

Publicly owned corporations should report earnings per share (EPS) below the web earnings line in their earnings statements. That is mandated by usually accepted accounting practices (GAAP). The EPS provides investors a way of figuring out the amount the enterprise earned on its inventory share investments. In different words, EPS tells traders how a lot internet revenue the enterprise earned for each stock share they own. It is calculated by dividing net earnings by the whole number of capital stock share. It’s necessary to the stockholders who want the web earnings of the business to be communicated to them on a per share basis so they can examine it with the...

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Raising Venture Capital

Posted by on May 25, 2010 in Entreprenuers | 2 comments

Raising Venture Capital

Use Other People’s Money?  It Depends… The Risk of Other People’s Money Often clients come to me indicating they want to raise money.  So I get to ask the next questions: “Equity?” “Debt?”  “Or some combination of these?” The response is too frequently a glassy-eyed: “You tell me.”  To compound  their initial frustration, my answer is usually, “It depends.” Everything has a price, including money.  At its most basic, that price is normally interest or return on capital.  In the real world, however, the intangible conditions associated with outside funding can be as costly to the entrepreneur as any additional premiums...

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