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Giving Executives 40% of Revenue is Insane

Curious Cat

I have previous written on my belief that excessive executive compensation had reached the level of a deadly disease of western management (building on the W. I named excessive executive pay and a broken “intellectual property” system as new deadly diseases in 2007. So Twitter gave executives 42.5% of revenue.

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How Can I Choose Management Software That’s Right for My Church?

Strategy Driven

The system can even print labels for when they arrive. The system is self-managed. They produce the GAAP principles which state how non-profits should have a fund accounting system in place. Topics include strategy, monitoring, execution, and smart marketing. Non profit money management is governed by FASB rules.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber , where a small, meek accountant stands before the desk of an overfed chief executive exhorting the accountant to rescue the company: "It's up to you now, Miller. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP. The only thing that can save us is an accounting breakthrough."

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business Review

As a result, there is no sound basis for stakeholders, including shareholders, to assess the performance of the company and its executives. Corporate governance is a system of checks and balances that a company designs to ensure that it faithfully serves its governing objective.

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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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You Can't Impress Stock Analysts.and Shouldn't Try

Harvard Business Review

Is there a better distillation of the serious problem with our economic system? keep hearing from top executives at large, profitable companies that they're under "P&L pressure." What all senior executives seem to have forgotten — in some mass delusion — is that these growth targets are arbitrary.

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