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Goldilocks, The Three Bears, And Effective Goal Setting

Terry Starbucker

I started as a CPA back in 1982, and was always pretty handy around a spreadsheet (even when they were just 12-column green pads). However, there are downsides to this, especially when you are tying goal achievement to incentive plans (i.e. how do you address a moving target in those plans?).

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Given the bull market in digital stocks, CFOs believe that they have no incentives to provide any additional information beyond mandatory SEC disclosures, which they consider excessive, tedious, and uninformative and might invite unnecessary scrutiny and litigation.

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