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HR Finance 101: A Guide To Finance for HR

AIHR

When meeting with HR regarding potential hiring, the best talent in the market may insist on scrutinizing a company’s financial reports to see how they stack up against the competition. For example, when a company pays a wage for a service rendered, the amount is recorded in the wages payable account of the balance sheet.

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Warren Buffett's 2010 Shareholder Letter: What to Expect

Harvard Business Review

Buffett explains that book value is the best proxy for "intrinsic value," the net present value of all estimated future cash flows. In 2009, he confessed to developing an ill-conceived plan to market GEICO credit cards and also failed to rein in NetJets' debt, which had soared to $1.9 Buffett is cerebral and emotional.

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

Harvard Business Review

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

There are people who disagree with that adage, of course, some saying that cash and cash flow are more important (and too often ignored). ” Another reason you might see a very high ROA is if a company is messing with its balance sheet, explains Knight. Profit is king, as the saying goes. Take Enron.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

These divisions all generated consistent earnings and cash flows. Enron was rated BBB+ (or the equivalent) by all three rating agencies, which typically include all off balance sheet debt when determining a rating. Adding the SPEs to Enron''s balance sheet would cause Enron to lose its investment-grade rating.

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What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Google and its disruptive advertising model leads the pack with a $370 billion market capitalization, but consider also companies like Facebook ($225 billion), LinkedIn ($25 billion), Twitter ($24 billion), TripAdvisor ($11 billion), and Yelp ($3 billion). The combined market value of those four companies? Scripps, McClatchy, and A.H.

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Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices

Harvard Business Review

It is true that that breaches are expected and have become a regular cost of doing business, but there are deeper reasons for the market’s failure to respond to these incidents. A widely accepted notion goes that there are only two types of companies: those that have been breached and those that don’t know they have.