Quick! Show Me Your Value

A format for tracking the benefits and costs of workplace learning and prevention interventions.

Measures of value that are based strictly on financial or monetary considerations, such as COGS.

Measures describing whether an organization is making enough return for its efforts. Ratios describe balance.

Written statements detailing an organization ‚ s finances, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. Together these statements give a presentation of the organization ‚ s financial condition for a specific time period.

The worth of a workplace learning and performance intervention as expressed in financial terms.

A cascading, linked set of measures where the leftmost measure is a broad, financially based measure of a Senior executive and the rightmost measure is a specific, performance-based measure of an Individual contributor .

A process for connecting the merit or value of a workplace learning and performance intervention directly to the financial measures and goals of an organization.

A section on the cash flow statement that displays all of the changes in cash flow caused by management ‚ s decisions to obtain or pay back debt. Transactions with owner ‚ s equity, such as issuing or purchasing stock, also go in this section of the cash flow statement.

A 12-month accounting period adopted by an organization starting on the first day of a specified month and ending on the last day of the twelfth month. May or may not correspond with the calendar year.

Expenses that are incurred regardless of the level of production. An example would be the cost to pay a monthly lease on a building that houses a production plant. The monthly lease must be paid, even if the plant is shut down and not producing anything. Also referred to as fixed expenses.