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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Analysts increasingly rely on non-GAAP metrics.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP.