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How Can I Choose Management Software That’s Right for My Church?

Strategy Driven

The system can even print labels for when they arrive. The system is self-managed. Keeping records of donations, contributions, and other financial records is a must for any company. They produce the GAAP principles which state how non-profits should have a fund accounting system in place.

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Giving Executives 40% of Revenue is Insane

Curious Cat

I named excessive executive pay and a broken “intellectual property” system as new deadly diseases in 2007. It is a stain on those participating in the looting of companies for the benefit of the executive bureaucrats – those that enable them to siphon off the returns generated by companies into their pockets.

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When Tracking Projects, Ignore Your Accountants

Harvard Business Review

Do you get regular reports from your company's accountants about how your projects are doing financially? They're just following what's known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP. But GAAP is exactly where the trouble lies. But GAAP is exactly where the trouble lies. It isn't the accountants' fault.

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When Tracking Projects, Ignore Your Accountants

Harvard Business Review

Do you get regular reports from your company's accountants about how your projects are doing financially? They're just following what's known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP. But GAAP is exactly where the trouble lies. But GAAP is exactly where the trouble lies. It isn't the accountants' fault.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber , where a small, meek accountant stands before the desk of an overfed chief executive exhorting the accountant to rescue the company: "It's up to you now, Miller. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP. The only thing that can save us is an accounting breakthrough."

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments. follows Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), developed through a rules-based approach.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business Review

Investors and others ask why companies binge on buybacks while skimping on value-creating investment opportunities. But discussions of corporate governance invariably miss the real problem: most public companies have extensive governance procedures but no governing objective. Corporate governance issues are constantly in the headlines.