Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. As long as the new ideas cohere with ethical standards, and generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ), they can yield immense benefits. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP. "Creative accounting" is really bad. Except when it's good.

Creative Accounting 15

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

According to our research at the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management , it’s the beliefs of leaders that drive organizational investments, board selection, and management team development and selection, and these beliefs do not change quickly. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Business Model GAAP Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

Activist investors challenge management strategies. And without knowing how managers decide, it is almost impossible to hold them accountable for what they decide. Peter Drucker, the great management thinker, had it right when he said, “keep [your] noses to the grindstone while lifting [your] eyes to the hills.”

Short-term 9

Short-term Long-term Objective Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2012

If a CFO is operating outside the bounds of policy or law or GAAP and is willing to lie to the board about it, I doubt that he or she would be overly concerned about whether the line being crossed is dotted or solid. Third (and most important): It will do great harm. The CFO is most often the closest advisor to the CEO.

CFO 12

CFO Committee GAAP Proposal 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

GAAP and FASB standards require financial reporting of earnings, cash flow, and profitability – all measures that investors have traditionally examined. Organizational refers to the systems these leaders create to manage leadership throughout the organization and the application of organization systems to specific business conditions.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

In essence, they'll report their results to GAAP standards and as the SEC, FASB, and other quasi-regulatory bodies require.but they won't answer to analysts. A few leaders — from companies such as Google and Unilever — have told Wall Street that they won't provide "guidance" anymore.

GAAP 8

GAAP Short-term P&L EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Cash revenues were indeed $200 million for the year, but the correct GAAP net revenues were only $30 million and profit was $2 million. Top management must be very careful about how they downsize the organization. Crisis management Cutting costs Small/medium business' 2012 revenue was 84% of 2007 revenue.)

Crisis 8

Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management. SAP, for example, has data on a variety of transactional domains, from customer orders to vacation balances. Of course, there are several steps that software companies need to take in order to make data mirrors possible.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Richard Harvey, in earlier testimony, said that the company managed to avoid about $7.7 FInally, the latitude afforded corporations in reporting profits distinctively to capital markets and tax authorities undercuts the credibility of the tax system and sows confusion and scope for opportunism for our managers. And yet legal scholar J.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Incentives System GAAP 8