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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. Furthermore, the operating managers cannot take their eyes off day-to-day operations to focus on innovation. Analysts increasingly rely on non-GAAP metrics.

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

These include access to digital goods and services, being part of global supply chains, accelerating and partaking in the fruits of innovation, and helping citizens access information, entertainment, and connectivity on a worldwide basis. follows Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), developed through a rules-based approach.

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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

GAAP and FASB standards require financial reporting of earnings, cash flow, and profitability – all measures that investors have traditionally examined. To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age. physical capital), rather than today’s growth drivers of developing and creating human, intellectual, and network capital. It struggles to account for today’s intangible assets—services, insights, and networks.

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