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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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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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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. Any purchase of non-consumable items over $200 must be separately tracked and depreciated. 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

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. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “They’re not hard to calculate. Play with numbers.

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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. ” Some even refer to data as “exhaust” — the antithesis of a valued asset! Except for very few, this hasn’t happened. Indeed, the cold reality is that for most, progress is agonizingly slow.

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

The interest rate set by the central bank serves as a benchmark or reference rate for banks. It reflects the bank’s assessment of potential losses it may incur and its commitment to maintaining a strong balance sheet. Indirect tax refers to taxes imposed based on the consumption, sale, or use of goods and services.

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Lawyer Advises Me "Don't Go to France"; French Pub Fined €9,000 for Using "Undeclared Labor" after Customers Returned Empties to Bar

MishTalk

The advise, coupled with the message " First amendment rights stop at the US border ", was in reference to my November 20 article Mish Fined 8,000 Euros for Quoting French Blog. A few days ago my lawyer advised me " Don''t go France " (not that I had any plans to of course). A blatant attempt to gag doubting bloggers.