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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. The term asset refers to anything with current or future economic value owned by a company.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

The Challenge of Investing in Digital Assets. That fact becomes apparent when you juxtapose the balance sheet of a company like Microsoft with the balance sheet of a company like Siemens. Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet.

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Talent Management When the Old Outnumber the Young

Harvard Business Review

Children have shifted on the "great balance sheet of life" — from assets in an agrarian society to liabilities in an industrial society — and people are choosing to have fewer. Headcount-based metrics — Are your metrics limiting your ability to tap the widest possible pool of talent?

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

The company also had three divisions — Water, International, and Merchant Investment — that were saddled with underperforming and over-valued assets. Enron was rated BBB+ (or the equivalent) by all three rating agencies, which typically include all off balance sheet debt when determining a rating.

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What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, that makes the problem harder, not easier, as business models are often hard-wired in what our colleague Mark Johnson dubs an organization’s rules, norms, and metrics, making shifts difficult to execute. It is natural and appropriate to seek to leverage existing assets and capabilities.

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Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices

Harvard Business Review

bank in assets, JP Morgan Chase , announced that in August, hackers had accessed its security system and that approximately seven million small businesses and 76 million households had been affected by a data breach. In the beginning of October, 2014, the largest U.S.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Focus on the metrics that matter. It’s the CMO’s job to make sure that metrics reflecting the health and value of the customer base –net present value, lifetime value, return on loyalty, cost per acquisition – get on the balance sheet. Although the metrics matter, what matters more is that the CMO and CFO agree on them.