Great Leadership By Dan
OCTOBER 21, 2013
We just finished a “ Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager ” program this week for a large client. The audience was mostly engineers – program and project managers, the ones in charge of designing and making complex stuff. Finance and accounting is very sexy! You can help them feel like owners too.
The Horizons Tracker
AUGUST 16, 2023
Green frontier technologies, such as electric vehicles, solar and wind energy, and green hydrogen, are projected to attain a market worth of $2.1 trillion by 2030, which is four times greater than their current value.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 23, 2015
If you want approval for a new project — purchasing new equipment or computer systems, applying for a patent, building a new store — chances are you need your company’s finance department on board. To get the green light, it helps to understand how finance people think. Finance & Accounting Tool.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 31, 2017
If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. “You are not going to be involved in running projects unless you understand the financials,” he says. What the Experts Say.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 17, 2016
There are a variety of methods you can use to calculate ROI — net present value , payback, breakeven — and internal rate of return , or IRR. The IRR is the rate at which the project breaks even. According to Knight, it’s commonly used by financial analysts in conjunction with net present value, or NPV.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2016
There are a variety of ways to calculate a return on investment (ROI) — net present value , internal rate of return , breakeven — but the simplest is payback period. And it “obviously has to be shorter than the life of the project — otherwise there’s no reason to make the investment.”
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2018
Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. Digital companies, in contrast, chase risky projects that have lottery-like payoffs. Risk is now considered a feature, not a bug.
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