AIHR

JANUARY 11, 2023

A transaction is a business event with a financial impact on an organization’s financial statement. 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. Understanding the balance sheet. Financial HR metrics to consider.

Cash Flow 136

Cash Flow Balance Sheet Assets Revenue 136

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn are the co-authors of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric that Matters. It’s titled Idea Flow: The Only Business Metric That Matters. And at that point, we had just gone through the events of September 11. The only business metric that matters is a fantastic book. Thank you, Jeremy.

Metrics 130

Metrics Scaling Marketing Sales 130

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

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.

Manager 18

Manager Balance Sheet Recruitment Metrics 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Enron was rated BBB+ (or the equivalent) by all three rating agencies, which typically include all off balance sheet debt when determining a rating. Enron''s court-appointed bankruptcy examiner estimated the SPEs comprised $14 billion of off-balance sheet debt. This is why the rating agencies could exclude the SPE debt.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Cash Flow Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Shareholders still don’t have good metrics, tools, and approaches to measure the impact of cyber attacks on businesses and translate that into a dollar value. This mismatch between the stock price and the medium and long-term impact on companies’ profitability should be addressed through better data.

Balance Sheet 13

Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

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.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Metrics Advertising ROI 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Many of these effects may have long-term consequences, like reduced innovation, that are not captured in short-term financial metrics. As firms might differ in number of employees they downsized, we controlled for the percentage of employees reduced in each downsizing event.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Sales Sales Metrics 8