Zenefits

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Inventory surpluses (along with shortages) are leaving businesses with too many products on their balance sheets. No account yet? Still, inflation is eroding their confidence and ability to recruit and hire, invest in their companies, and grow as an enterprise. COVID-19 safety protocols. Rising interest rates. In their Oct.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. “Finance and accounting are very simple. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

Both of these numbers come from your company’s balance sheet. So you want to strike a balance that’s appropriate for your industry. That’s partly why, says Knight, Apple started to get rid of cash and pay out dividends to shareholders and added debt to its balance sheet in the last month or so.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

Finance & Accounting Tool. It indicates what is left after all costs and expenses are subtracted from the company’s revenue. A common mistake in ROI analysis is comparing the initial investment, which is always in cash, with returns as measured by profit or (in some cases) revenue. HBR TOOLS: Return on Investment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Once a transaction is entered in the database and the accounts are updated, the records cannot be altered, because they’re linked to every transaction record that came before them (hence the term “chain”). First, blockchain could help relieve a large balance-sheet liability that many in the industry are facing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits. Recent research lets us make an even bolder claim: accounting earnings are practically irrelevant for digital companies. Let’s first look at the balance sheet.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

To know whether a company is truly on the cusp of hitting a $0 balance in their accounts, you can’t simply look at the income statement. They may also include your accounts receivable, inventory, and accrual payments, depending on your business. One of the biggest fears of a small business owner is running out of cash.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Since customers don't complain about that, you've lost the opportunity to collect revenue you're due. While in everyday language, it is plain enough that poor-quality data are liabilities and high-quality data are assets, they don't appear on the balance sheet.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

” Another reason you might see a very high ROA is if a company is messing with its balance sheet, explains Knight. Return on equity is a similar calculation, but it looks at equity, the net worth of the company, not by what it owns, but by the accounting rules. Take Enron. The energy-trading company had a very high ROA.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

billion, blaming $5 billion of the writedown on improper accounting. Right now, regulators are investigating whether Autonomy actually engaged in improper accounting. KPMG, the big accounting firm, was helping HP with its due diligence by inspecting Autonomy's books. Financial numbers, though, are different.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

While the large banks are at the center of this trust vacuum — with a seemingly steady stream of scandals, such as the recent Wells Fargo account rigging debacle — the erosion of trust is bad for everyone. In 2015 these top three players generated 48% of the revenues among the top 50 brokers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balance sheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

These factors have led to questions over the quality of banks’ balance sheets and whether many of the loans extended in recent years can actually be repaid, raising further doubts over the sustainability of the debt-fueled model. The central government must start to give more tax revenues to local governments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Turning information exchange into value and revenue involves changing the nature of information relationships as well as management’s abilities to act on that information. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

Take Google’s purchase of YouTube, now a multibillion-dollar revenue stream that’s fueling the disruption of cable, or Facebook buying Instagram, which solidified its social media dominance. Don’t underestimate the value of chemistry and culture. Conservative Sprint executives clashed with scrappy Nextel personnel.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Both of these reinforcing trends have created a tax revenue problem for governments. For example, the European central bank, which by law is prohibited from financing government spending, could simply credit the bank accounts of all tax-paying euro zone citizens. Such a policy would be cheaper than the alternatives and more effective.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Turning information exchange into value and revenue involves changing the nature of information relationships as well as management’s abilities to act on that information. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet. Its function is to grow companies by turning active economic activity into static bags of capital; in doing so, it has taken a liquid medium necessary for our economy’s circulation and frozen it in corporate accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

China’s four largest banks have quadrupled the share of foreign assets on their balance sheets since 2007 to $1 trillion—that make gives them larger foreign portfolios than German or Italian banks. China, which accounted for 16% of the world’s net global surplus capital in 2005 now accounts for only 1%.

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Chief Executive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Despite stiff economic headwinds, robust M&A opportunities are there for the taking, with many companies enjoying steady cash flows and strong balance sheets. “In In today’s high-inflation environment, strategic acquirers with lots of cash on the balance sheet need to do something with it,” says Christopher R.

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Chris LoCutro

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I share why reconciling accounts, preparing for taxes, and analyzing financial performance are crucial steps. They've not done a really good job reconciling their bank accounts. And the reason why is because most of the time, a lot of business owners have not been trained to do their accounting properly.

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