Short-term focus of management ain’t due to accounting

CFO.com had a provocatively titled article this morning that just shouted out for a retort: “Is Accounting Blocking R&D Investments?” Now how could accounting be doing that? Why, because senior management is preoccupied with meeting short-term quarterly earnings targets, and are cutting back on longer-term focused R&D investments! I thought this was just an overzealousContinue reading “Short-term focus of management ain’t due to accounting”

Google’s 20% time at accounting firms?

It’s well known that Google encourages their employees to spend roughly equal to one day per week pursuing personal projects, or about 20% of their time at work. The results of this unique policy are numerous and successful: Gmail, Google Suggest, Google News, AdSense and Orkut. What would happen if an accounting firm allowed theirContinue reading “Google’s 20% time at accounting firms?”