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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

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. As digital technology becomes more pervasive, more and more companies will present this sort of valuation challenge.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

In a follow up HBR article , we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks and distilled seven key insights from those discussions. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers.

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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. Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. As long as the new ideas cohere with ethical standards, and generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ), they can yield immense benefits.

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

The draft bill has generated much debate, including some concern from global technology giants as well as Nasscom, India’s IT industry body. These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments. What Policy Makers Should Consider. In contrast, the U.S.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. It is even possible to hold up the data mirror to individual technology users.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. While all of these are contributing factors, the major factor, in our view, is the deflationary effect of technology, which our measurement systems fail to account for.

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