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Expedia Layoffs To Affect 9% Of Workforce In a Bid To Refocus Resources

HR Digest

Their full-year GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) saw a 127 percent growth compared to 2022, one of their highest growth numbers to date. While the B2C and B2B appear to be the target area for growth, it is the Product and Technology division that’s seeing the biggest shakeup in order to facilitate the change.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. Analysts increasingly rely on non-GAAP metrics. That VC arm is given relatively unconstrained financial capital to invest in innovation and disruptive ideas.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. Those outlays could be on soft avenues, such as customer acquisition, data breach and safety, regulatory fines, and product enhancement, or on hard assets, such as hardware, servers, and cellphone towers.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

An idea, behavior, or product is creative if it is both novel and appropriate to some goal. As long as the new ideas cohere with ethical standards, and generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ), they can yield immense benefits. She researches what makes people creative, productive, happy, and motivated at work.

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

At the other extreme, cross-border flows of certain types of private or public data, such as well production for a global oil producer or anonymous aggregated statistics, may be better left unfettered. follows Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), developed through a rules-based approach. In contrast, the U.S.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

Microsoft, for example, has a program called MyAnalytics that informs customers of its Office productivity software about how much time they spend on various tasks, and the size and strength of their communications networks. It is even possible to hold up the data mirror to individual technology users.

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The U.S. Corporate Tax Code Is Broken. How Should We Fix It?

Harvard Business Review

and the allocation of corporate talent and efforts (away from productive uses and toward rent-seeking). Consider the ratio of transport costs to product value for a steel bar, an automobile, a semiconductor chip and a piece of software. Cook squarely placed the blame on a U.S.