During a credit expansion asset values become inflated, and credit-fueled spending tends to drive up corporate profitability.
And the answer must be increased revenues accruing to economic growth, employment and corporate profitability.
Shultz recommends a 10% across-the-board cut in income taxes, thus strengthening purchasing power, increasing corporate profitability and encouraging investment.
More and more studies show a strong link between gender and corporate profitability.
Not good if you believe that the latest legs of the bull market have rested on a widening of corporate profitability.
If it did, all those rosy forecasts of corporate profitability would wilt.
Despite expectations of higher corporate profitability, the market is shining a spotlight on profit margins which shortly could top out at their pre-recession level.
What is worrying about the latest numbers is that we are seeing them towards the end of a period of strong economic growth and corporate profitability, neither of which is likely to continue.
The U.S. airlines earnings season is upon us are being closely watched as it sheds light on several macroeconomic trends like consumer disposable incomes, business travel, corporate profitability and the impact of oil prices.
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Though navigating poor and confusing disclosure in the Financial Footnotes to find the truth about corporate profitability and valuation takes hard work and expertise, I believe investors who do it sleep better at night.
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"Falling home prices, rising food and energy costs, which will inevitably lead to slower consumer spending, are reducing expectations for corporate profitability, pushing up defaults and widening out spreads, " Hintz wrote in a research note Tuesday.
Adding to the value-investor type strategy MDH pursues in building its portfolio, it should benefit from improving trends in economic activity and improved corporate profitability and cash positions, which ought to facilitate more business trips and conferences.
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In an act of heresy, Microchip switched to a model with more generous base salaries, accounting for 90% of total sales pay with the final 10% coming in the form of bonuses tied to overall corporate profitability and other broad metrics.
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Thirdly the collapses led not merely to better financial regulation but, more importantly, to a corporate focus on profitability over size and market share.
Slow growth it certainly affects negatively corporate sales and profitability.
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There does not seem much of a crisis of profitability in corporate returns these days.
The goal is to come up with business strategies that protect natural resources while reducing corporate risks and enhancing profitability.
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By compensating executives for the brilliance of their deals, rather than their long-term profitability, Enron created the corporate equivalent of a boiler-room scam shop.
The country's corporate sector also went into the recession with a high degree of profitability, Randolph said.
Despite the robustness of this effect in driving operational profitability and portfolio returns, the connection between gender and corporate success remains in large part unexplained.
In the subfield of Management people are much more receptive to the idea that Corporate Social Responsibility should also benefit a firm in terms of its profitability.
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On profitability, the chief of these is whether the improvement in corporate governance that she expects, which will be needed if the gains from restructuring are to last, will come to pass.
The moral of this tale: There is no substitute for end-to-end testing of all IT systems and where corporate revenue is involved, simple testing could well be the difference between profitability and disaster.
Deflation, combined with huge corporate debts and high nominal interest rates, has led to sharp falls in companies' profitability.
Another new choice, Computer Associates, vendor of software to corporate networks, is revamping its strategy to better compete with Oracle and recover its lost profitability.
More significant may have been policies aimed at keeping corporate borrowing rates low to slow the growth rate of nonperforming loans, and deposit rates even lower to ensure bank profitability.
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