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Growth Companies - Detailed Syllabus
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The challenge for all growth companies is to grow the top line. This is very hard in a saturated market and in a low inflationary environment. It is far easier to manage productivity and expenses through layoffs and consolidations.
The objectives of these seminars are:
- Create a financial model which can determine which companies are actually growing their business organically in contrast to those who are creating earnings through accounting manipulations, financial and investment transactions, and/or by buying revenue through M&A transactions; and
- Pair the organic good growers with poorly growing companies in the same industry and try to determine what are the best practices of growth companies.
Course Materials:
- Financial Shenanigans by Howard Schilit (McGraw Hill, 2nd edition 2002)
- Financial Statement Analysis by Martin Friedson & Fernando Alvarez (Wiley, 3rd edition, 2002)
- Blockbusters by Lynn and Reilly, (Harper Business, 2002)
- "Quality of Earnings," Special Research Report by Merrill Lynch (August 2002)
- S & P "Core Earnings" database
- EVA Database by Stern Stewart
- Good to Great by Jim Collins (Harper Business, 2001), pp 219-260
- Tough Minded Ways To Get Innovative by Pearson, HBR Aug. 2002, pp 117-124.
- The Growth Crisis - And How to Escape It by Slywotzky and Wise; HBR, July 2002, pp 73-83
- Open-Market Innovation by Rigby & Zook, HBR, Oct. 2002, pp 80-89.
- New Products: The Factors That Drive Success by Robert G. Cooper, International Marketing Review, 1994.
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