Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
From local startups to global conglomerates like Google and Amazon, accountants are inseparable from a company’s success. Profitability is a critical metric in business as it allows a company to determine its success and future growth. Accounting is a crucial part of any business.
Leading Blog
JANUARY 27, 2012
Sonnenberg believes that leaders who have a jaded view of intangible assets will never make the commitment required to reap their full potential. We envy someone who has achieved success without think about what they did to earn it.” While not readily measureable, they can make or break leaders and organizations.
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Strategy Driven
JUNE 21, 2021
No successful business attained the height it has reached by neglecting the details of its financial activity. Assets here can be current or non-current assets , and they include everything that the startup owns within a given period. A startup can also have intangible assets that you cannot feel or touch, like goodwill.
Strategy Driven
JULY 28, 2019
However, there is an intangible asset that is very difficult to quantify — but without it you cannot ultimately succeed. This asset is, of course, alignment. No one (besides Forrest Gump maybe) meanders their way to success. efficiency). You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 21, 2016
As technology continues to change and challenge even the most successful incumbent organizations in every industry, the cost of inertia is growing. Consider the dramatic shift in the types of assets that create market value. Despite the shift to intangible assets, executives and their strategists are sticking to the status quo.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
In a previous HBR article , we argued that, in contrast to physical assets that depreciate with use, intangible assets might enhance with use. So the fundamental idea behind the success of digital companies (the increasing returns to scale) goes against a basic tenet of financial accounting (assets depreciate with use).
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2017
An informed shareholder, who looks beyond earnings numbers and analyzes the company’s intangible assets, would notice that the firm has mortgaged its future. Gathering information on a firm’s intangible assets is costly, and so not worth doing if you own only a tiny bit of stock in a company.
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