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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. One CFO commented that standard setters enjoy monopoly power and have no incentives to change their methods to be more responsive to investors.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

Software and other companies that develop data mirrors and scores can grow their top and bottom lines with little or no marginal costs by building investable indices that correlate their unique insight and data to investor returns. Kensho uses not just raw financial data but data from all sorts of ‘alternative’ sources.).