We are working on an acquisition. My boss wants me to calculate the Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the target company. She does not want me to calculate our Return on Investment ROI for the acquisition. I think she wants me to measure the effectiveness of their internal capital investments. I am not sure how to calculate return on invested capital.

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asked by boris89

I am involved in a startup that is discussing whether to form a C Corporation or an LLC. I have some experience with a capitalization table (cap table) but I don't know how to track member equity interest in LLC.

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asked by rklein

I'm evaluating the strength of the tenant in a building I want to buy.

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asked by Dori

I am a domain expert working on a due diligence team as part of a corporate acquisition. The term "proprietary deal flow" came up and I would like to know what it is and how it works.

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asked by guy79

We are looking at a lot of investment and acquisition opportunities, including a mix of established and new businesses. Many of them have revenue "hockey sticks" in the projected years. I mean that they assume fast growth in sales once they finish project XYZ. Their financial projections show incredible growth. Of course, we are skeptical but our team cannot agree on how to best forecast growth. I'd like to know if there are norms or quantitive data about growth rates out there that we could use in our models to come up with a better valuation.

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asked by rachel83

Private company with some new investors looking for concise quarterly snapshot of business health.

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asked by gw7

I've always considered LLC's to be for small personal businesses such as software consultancies, design agencies and so on. But there are large companies I'd have thought would be full corporations but are not. For example, Kaiser Permanente is an LLC with 150,000 employees. Chrysler, the car company, is also an LLC.What benefit do they get from being LLCs?

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asked by mkennedy

Sorry for what is probably a very basic question. Part of my job is participating in a committee that approves projects and I am primarily focused on the human resource aspects but would like to better understand the financial side.

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asked by thor31