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

Strategy Driven

This article looks at how to choose the best management software for your church. From event registration to money management, you’ll discover the easiest way to administer your membership. Smart management software allows your church attendees to register online on your website or via their phone. Event Registration.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. GAAP and FASB standards require financial reporting of earnings, cash flow, and profitability – all measures that investors have traditionally examined. from top to bottom, bottom to top, and side to side)?

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Consider the dramatic shift in the types of assets that create market value. According to Ocean Tomo, a consulting firm focused on intellectual capital, physical assets (plant, property, and equipment) made up more than 80% of the market value of the S&P 500 in 1975. How much is changing?

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Midsized Firms Can Survive a Cash Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Large companies rarely face this growth killer since most of them maintain deep cash reserves, have access to the financial markets, and possess the financial discipline to react long before a crash. Midsized companies need to be far more cash-conscious — even penurious — when their markets go sour. firm in 1989.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management. Neustar’s MarketShare software makes it possible for customers to measure the effects of their marketing programs and compare them to other firms.