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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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Now What? Post-SVB, CEOs Need To Exercise Strategic Vision, Tactical Wile

Chief Executive

One possibility, Scheef said, is checking out cash-management platforms such as IntraFi ICS, a service that allows thousands of banks to spread out a company’s funds in increments of $249,000 to as many banks as necessary to get the amount covered by FDIC insurance in toto. In any event, see what your bank or banks can do.

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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

And we’ve seen more recently the actual devastation of record weather events like Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Haiyan. A key target for Ceres’ work, and the main audience at the conference, is the group of institutional investors who manage tens of trillions of dollars in assets for long-term performance. coal market.

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Four Steps to Measuring What Matters

Harvard Business Review

Executives cling to these metrics because they are overconfident in their intuition, they misattribute the causes of events, and they do not escape the pull of the status quo. More-specific financial drivers vary among companies and can include earnings growth, cash flow growth, and return on invested capital.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from Shark Tank

Harvard Business Review

The investment would have the upside of an entrepreneur but the assets of a large enterprise. On Day Three, each team presented to a panel of "sharks," consisting of members of senior management, myself, and Mark Cuban, who they''d brought in for the event. The event was a huge hit.

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Young firms may be especially unlikely to prepare for infrequent events such as major hurricanes since they are exposed to so many risks that occur with a higher likelihood. In the U.S.,

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow. Companies such as Exxon, Chevron, and Shell have all said they expect to expand their production in shale assets in the US, Canada, and Argentina.