Many companies tend to carry more debt than equity, but Google is different. Today, Google has no debt. But is that good or bad? Just recently I (Joe) was facilitating a session with employees from a small business that had been acquired by a larger public company. The small business did not have any debt […]
July 15, 2009
Many companies tend to carry more debt than equity, but Google is different. Today, Google has no debt. But is that good or bad?
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KB Karen Berman is founder and co-owner of the Business Literacy Institute, with Joe Knight. Joe is CFO at Setpoint Companies. The revised edition of their classic Financial Intelligence will be published in February.
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