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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

Why do investors react negatively to financial statement losses for an industrial firm but disregard such losses for a digital firm? In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions.

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Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: The Top 7

LSA Global

Foundational business sales training should include a primer on business acumen : key business drivers, financial metrics, and industry-specific trends. Are you teaching your new sales reps how to link your solutions to strategic business priorities that their ideal target clients care most about?

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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

The same is true of employees at Tower Paddle Boards (at least during the summer months) and Collins SBA , a financial advisory firm in Australia. Of course, software firm 37 Signals has been operating four-day work weeks over the summer since 2008. Overtime expense isn’t a major concern when many office workers are on salary.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. Financial capital is abundant but carefully managed; human capital is scarce but not carefully managed.

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What is a Healthy Company?

Markovitz Consulting

As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community). Similarly, one of the primary drivers of GE’s fall from grace was the reckless pursuit of profits from its financing operations.

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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

Efficiency ratio The efficiency ratio measures effective cost management and operational efficiency, and is defined as non-interest expenses divided by revenue. Total shareholder return (TSR) TSR is often considered the ultimate measure of shareholder value, and the outcome of delivering against the financial targets.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing. The average U.S. Early adopters could benefit considerably.

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