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Expedia Layoffs To Affect 9% Of Workforce In a Bid To Refocus Resources

HR Digest

With a goal to drive efficiency forward this year, Expedia layoffs are moving ahead with a target of 9 percent job cuts in the upcoming weeks. Their full-year GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) saw a 127 percent growth compared to 2022, one of their highest growth numbers to date.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

Currently, firms’ first report net profits and then back out many of these one-time items to present a non-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) profit number. Because investors consider these non-GAAP numbers to be value-relevant, we propose a more direct way for them to be calculated.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

Imagine if all manufacturers had, for example, a supply chain efficiency score, or all companies had a leadership development score. The FICO score is an excellent example; the company reduces a consumer’s complex credit history to a single three-digit score that both creditors and debtors can understand.

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The U.S. Corporate Tax Code Is Broken. How Should We Fix It?

Harvard Business Review

And, nothing could be more important to our economy than the efficient allocation of financial, real and human capital. And it is hard to rationalize a tax borne by labor implemented through corporations for either distributional or efficiency reasons. Cook squarely placed the blame on a U.S.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

As the market, including customers, employees, and investors, shifts the mix of what is done and what is consumed, this most important and commonly used economic indicator, along with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), tells a concerning story.

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