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HR Finance 101: A Guide To Finance for HR

AIHR

A transaction is a business event with a financial impact on an organization’s financial statement. It refers to the outflow of cash in return for incoming goods or services. Cash flow refers to the amount of cash that comes into and leaves a business within a specified period of time. Transaction.

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Lessons From SVB

Chief Executive

One possibility, Scheef says, 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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Four Steps to Measuring What Matters

Harvard Business Review

But as Michael Lewis describes in Moneyball , the Oakland Athletics discovered that the metric the team's scouts used to choose players had nothing to do with whether those players would score runs. Leave aside, for the moment, which metrics you currently use or which ones Wall Street analysts or bankers say you should.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. The risk function can do the same.

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Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices

Harvard Business Review

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.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

Focus on the metrics that matter. CMOs must demonstrate and track marketing’s impact by focusing on key performance indicators (KPIs) that are important for shareholder value such as strong cash flow, cost of capital, return on capital, and operating margin. Why is this so challenging? Help CFOs focus on the long term.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

These divisions all generated consistent earnings and cash flows. A typical SPE requires a company to make cash payments to the SPE if its assets fall in value. Enron created Contingent Equity Vehicles (CEVs) wherein Enron pledged to issue new equity, rather than cash, in the event of asset impairment.