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HR Finance 101: A Guide To Finance for HR

AIHR

Labor costs like salaries, benefits, and related taxes make up as much as 70% of total operating costs of a business. HR can use cost and revenue data from finance to calculate the ROIs of these projects to estimate profits even before the company starts or completes a project. Understanding the balance sheet.

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The Most Common Mistake People Make In Calculating ROI

Harvard Business Review

But before anyone writes a check, you need to calculate the return on investment (ROI) by comparing the expected benefits with the costs. Analyzing ROI isn’t always as simple as it sounds and there’s one mistake that many managers make: confusing cash and profit. Apples to apples, and all that.

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What Great Companies Know About Culture

Harvard Business Review

But is there a direct correlation between employee investment and the balance sheet? To better understand the ROI, my company, Burson-Marsteller, teamed up with the Great Place to Work Institute to ask senior executives from top-ranked companies about the value of a positive work environment. They're upgrading.

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. ’” To reverse this perception and to get greater bang for marketing’s buck, we believe that CMOs must become true collaborators with CFOs and adopt a marketing ROI approach that’s driven by analytics. The opportunity is enormous. Get more for the money.