John Egan is a veteran personal finance writer whose work has been published by outlets such as Bankrate, Experian, Newsweek Vault and Investopedia. Michael Adams is a former Cryptocurrency and ...

Lifetime value (LTV) is a significant metric that helps estimate the growth of a company. By comparing LTV to customer acquisition cost, the results can help make crucial decisions. This might include ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Like everything good in the world, customers have value. And while their value as people is immeasurable, their value as customers can be ...

Residual value is the estimated value of an asset at the end of its useful life. It's used to figure out things like the value of a car at the end of a lease or how much equipment is worth after it's ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. No two businesses are worth the same amount of money. Whether you’re a lender looking to decide whether a business is a worthwhile ...

The Gordon model allows for the fact that the market might put a price on a stock that's different from what you might estimate using the equation above. A higher stock price than predicted implies a ...

Notes are often a key component of how a business finances its operations. For purposes of accounting, it's important to be able to calculate the maturity value of a note to know how much a business ...

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin gain value from factors like scarcity, utility and security, not physical backing. Common methods to calculate intrinsic worth of a cryptocurrency include Metcalfe’s Law, ...

This article was written by David Mullen, Product Manager for Core Fixed-Income Analytics, and Fateen Sharaby, Business Manager for Index-Linked Products at Bloomberg. Credit futures, which started ...