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HR Finance 101: A Guide To Finance for HR

AIHR

A debit is an entry that increases the value of an asset or expense in an account or decreases the value of equity or liability. A credit increases a liability or equity or decreases the value of an asset or expense in an account. A transaction is a business event with a financial impact on an organization’s financial statement.

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Q&A: Recent Bank Failures Do Not Mean It’s 2008 All Over Again

UVA Darden

Smith: The Silicon Valley Bank, or SVB, invested heavily in relatively “safe” assets, in that the investments had little or no likelihood of default. But the assets wouldn’t pay back for a long time, mostly 10 years or more. The bank also had long-dated assets. Bruner comments on life, business and current events in his blog.

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Q&A: Recent Bank Failures Do Not Mean It’s 2008 All Over Again

UVA Darden

Smith: The Silicon Valley Bank, or SVB, invested heavily in relatively “safe” assets, in that the investments had little or no likelihood of default. But the assets wouldn’t pay back for a long time, mostly 10 years or more. The bank also had long-dated assets. Bruner comments on life, business and current events in his blog.

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How To Lead An Empowered Workforce

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Companies must care for workers as complete “assets”, caring for workers’ health, wellness, mental health, and longevity as they would care for any tangible asset in the corporate balance sheet. 90% of the value in most organizations is generated from intangible capital : your people.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

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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The Problem with the Profit Motive in Finance

Harvard Business Review

Banks have developed fortress balance sheets, improving credit quality by 54 percent, increasing net income and, restoring aggregate lending to pre-crisis levels of nearly $7 trillion. A lot of investors seem to get this — which helps explain why Vanguard has grown to account for 17% of mutual fund assets in the U.S.,

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Talent Management When the Old Outnumber the Young

Harvard Business Review

These two major demographic shifts are so significant that Peter Drucker predicted that historians, looking back at the 20th Century, will view the demographic changes as the most important events of the century (more so than technology, industrialization, globalization and so on). The first is substantially lower birth or fertility rates.

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