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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. Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. Applying them broadly without reference to your talent strategy could make it impossible to source or retain the people you need to achieve goals.

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Repair Regulations: Limiting Business Deductions

Women in Consulting

into office supplies, these items must now be put on the balance sheet and depreciated and tracked. All tangible property expenditures with an acquisition or production cost under the stated threshold are to be charged to the expense accounts. Instead of lumping items like cheap printers, phones, routers, etc.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Of course, there are also myriad books and reference guides on the topic. A finance textbook or reference guide is a good investment; but “Google works too,” he says.

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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. This is where selling the data directly, building it into products and services, using it as input for analytics, and making better decisions come to the fore. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

And when the customers refer others to the product and the company, that customer value increases even more. All of this is about revenue, the top line in the balance sheet. Managing expenses means reducing the costs of supplying products and services to customers. However gross revenue is never enough.

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

Bank’s Income Statement It’s important to note that banks have diverse product offerings and client types, and the reporting of business lines such as retail banking, wholesale banking, and wealth management can vary between different banks. The interest rate set by the central bank serves as a benchmark or reference rate for banks.

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