Finance Mini-Lessons

Whether you’re an employee, an investor, or simply someone wanting to learn more about business finances, sometimes the numbers can only go so far. In addition to quarterly earnings coverage, QuarterSense offers finance “mini-lessons” to supplement our summaries and present interesting examples, stories, and scenarios that just might make finance entertaining.

Here’s an archive of all our mini-lessons. Read at your leisure, learn, and enjoy!

• The Lemonade Stand — A Lesson on Cash Flow
• Burger Joint Basics
• Where Does the Cash Go?
• Can a Company Grow Too Fast?
• What’s in a Margin?
• Returning Value to Shareholders
• Can a Company Have Too Much Cash?
• Defer, Defer, Defer
• McDonald’s — Advance Directly to Go
• Enron — A Story of “Forensic Accounting”
• FedEx — Luck
• Why Small Changes Matter
• The Sweet Spot
• When Two Companies Love Each Other
• Nike — Just Do It?