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Creative Accounting

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. Creative accounting measures. This measure has been validated by extensive academic research.

EPS

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term

Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Yeaney cites three key benefits: First, the process generated "more creativity, accountability, and commitment." Just as important, those plans were never handed back up the chain of command for "final answers." The effect? And third, "we improved the flexibility and adaptability of the strategy."

COO

COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy

Leadership Digital

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

Who Gets a Seat at the Table?

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