BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Human Asset Accounting
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- What To Do When People Are Your Most Important Asset
- The relentless force of globalization has left only one sustainable path to profitability for firms operating in high-wage, developed nations - to compete based on superior human capital capabilities and strategies. Any benefits that were historically associated with superior technology and access to capital both physical and financial are now...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Are Skills a Cost or an Asset?
- This article points out that conventional accounting does not encourage investment in human capital. Unlike investments in physical capital (e.g., machinery, real estate, etc.), which are considered assets, investments in human capital are accounted for as expenses (e.g., paper clips, electricity, and building maintenance). This means that companies out to...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Logistics Management Resources Retains New Accounting Firm
- Business Editors LOUISVILLE, Ky.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 19, 2001 Logistics Management Resources, Inc. (OTC:BB:LMRI), which is focused on acquiring and managing non-asset based transportation logistics and human resource companies, today announced that it has retained the accounting firm Rosenberg Rich Baker Berman & Company of Bridgewater, New Jersey as it...
- Research articles 2001-03-19
- Equinix, Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator instructions]. Our first question comes from Jonathan Schildkraut with Jefferies. Jonathan Schildkraut - Jefferies & Company Wow. Stephen M. Smith - President and Chief Executive Officer Hey Jonathan, how are you? Jonathan Schildkraut - Jefferies & Company Hi guys,...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-30
- AOL, Still Shaking Up Staff, Hires New CFO Artie Minson [MediaMemo]
- Newish AOL CEO Tim Armstrong hasn't gone on a massive firing binge. But he's still shaking up the ranks at the Time Warner TWX unit. Today, for instance, he is installing a new chief financial officer: Artie Minson, the deputy CFO at sister company Time Warner Cable TWC. Minson replaces...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Long-Term Attachments and Long-Run Firm Rates of Return
- Long-term attachments between workers and firms are common. Numerous studies have examined worker returns to tenure, but little is known of firm returns to firm-worker matches. Yet these attachments represent a human capital asset quasi-held by the firm, which is not captured by traditional accounting measures of firm assets. Firms...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Banks Need More Capital
- Global financial intermediation is broken. That intricate and interdependent system directing the world's saving into productive capital investment was severely weakened in August 2007. The disclosure that highly leveraged financial institutions were holding toxic securitised American subprime mortgages shocked market participants. For a year, banks struggled to respond to investor...
- News items 2009-08-07
