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Performance Metrics

Beacon CFO Plus

The substantive issue behind this challenge is how to effectively measure performance in an environment that does not lend itself to hard and fast metrics. The service manager attempting to introduce consistent performance metrics across a number of units or departments should expect a fair bit of resistance.

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Measure Your Way to Startup Success with KPIs - By JP Puchulu

Boston Startup CFO

Don't be fooled, though - just because you can measure something doesn't mean it's essential to your success. You need to carefully select the KPIs that are most important to achieving your goals and keep the number of KPIs small, so everyone's attention stays focused. Are we meeting our goals? Are our customers satisfied?

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AP Automation’s Role In Paying The Gig Economy

PYMNTS

At a high-level view, that changes the number of levers that can be pulled — from a finance perspective — around the working capital associated with AP. might take an Excel file out of a performance measurement system and upload the file to its bank. But without automation, you don’t have any of those levers to pull.

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How eProcurement Puts The Heat On Government Suppliers

PYMNTS

local and federal agencies may be upping the number of contracts out for vendors, but these companies have less time to act on the offer. Further, while the number of contracts available are increasing, the length of these deals is also on the decline. That doesn’t mean work as a government supplier is easy, though.

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A new way to measure long-term firm performance and shareholder value

Future CFO

LIVA, as introduced in a recent paper, “Introducing LIVA to measure long-term firm performance”, published in the Strategic Management Journal, uses stock price data to measure the degree to which a company has created and destroyed shareholder value by calculating a backward-looking net present value (NPV) over a given period, INSEAD pointed out.

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Growth in Sustainable Indices Proves Sustainable

CFA Institute

The number of indices measuring ESG criteria continues to spike, Rick Redding, CFA, reports.

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Direct to Consumer: JamesAllen.com and Dominion Diamond’s Shiny Delivery

PYMNTS

The consumer is able to go to CanadaMark.com and enter their unique tracking number to verify that their diamond is tracked from Ekati and Diavik. Through this partnership, JamesAllen.com will sell the Dominion-sourced CanadaMark diamonds and provide a clear-cut process that shows transparency to consumers from the mine to the gift box.