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Variable Compensation: All HR Needs to Know

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Variable compensation, also known as variable pay , is supplementary compensation typically tied to performance goals measured by specific metrics. Sales commission : A payment for selling a product or service based on a percentage of the revenue. This helps you reduce fixed labor costs. What is variable compensation?

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High Expectations: Managing For Value In The Automotive Industry

Chief Executive

Since shareholder value is driven by investor expectations of future cash flow and EP growth (See S&P 500 Warranted Value of Discounted Economic Profits vs. Actual Traded Value chart, below), EP has been used as the profitability metric for AlixPartners’ Automotive Value Creation study.

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A Practical Guide to Training Evaluation

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Phillips added a fifth level, which is return on investment (ROI) – a metric that is incredibly valuable for HR leaders to demonstrate to decision-makers the importance of training. For example, using cost-benefit analysis for a training program can determine if the money invested in training has had any impact.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s margin growth measure classified firms that report higher earnings growth than revenue growth as myopic. However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output.

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Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. ACSOI essentially measures Groupon's profits before subtracting its subscriber-acquisition costs and stock option-based compensation.

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Exclusive: Jim Collins on ‘Thriving In Chaos’

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But they had this march, which was doubling components at affordable cost every 18 to 24 months, no matter what, like clockwork. It speaks to figuring out what that one key metric is that moves your business, and committing to it over and over. And if we do that, we can’t help but grow revenues per fixed cost.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

Despite metrics showing impressive overall company performance, the company’s capital deployment strategy was not maximizing shareholder dividends and/or buybacks. In recent years, both companies exhibited compressed margins, flat revenue growth, and lagging returns. revenue composition, economic factors, etc.)