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

Strategy Driven

The system can even print labels for when they arrive. The system is self-managed. They produce the GAAP principles which state how non-profits should have a fund accounting system in place. Smart management software allows your church attendees to register online on your website or via their phone.

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Giving Executives 40% of Revenue is Insane

Curious Cat

I named excessive executive pay and a broken “intellectual property” system as new deadly diseases in 2007. When you read about non-GAAP earnings, often one of the big costs they are excluding is the massive stock giveaways to executives. Edwards Deming’s list of 7 deadly diseases ).

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When Tracking Projects, Ignore Your Accountants

Harvard Business Review

They're just following what's known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP. But GAAP is exactly where the trouble lies. After two months we have purchased all the major parts and components of the system, spending $2 million. According to GAAP we are now 50% complete, because we have spent 50% of our budget.

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When Tracking Projects, Ignore Your Accountants

Harvard Business Review

They're just following what's known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP. But GAAP is exactly where the trouble lies. After two months we have purchased all the major parts and components of the system, spending $2 million. According to GAAP we are now 50% complete, because we have spent 50% of our budget.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

As long as the new ideas cohere with ethical standards, and generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ), they can yield immense benefits. Created by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the 1990s, this system for assessing organizational performance builds on, but goes way beyond, traditional accounting methods.

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

follows Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), developed through a rules-based approach. APEC has recently developed the Cross-Border Privacy Rules system, a principles-based framework, aimed at ensuring greater privacy protection as well as greater data flows than might be the case in the absence of a framework.

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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

GAAP and FASB standards require financial reporting of earnings, cash flow, and profitability – all measures that investors have traditionally examined. To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on.