{
  "title": "Finance for non-financial managers in the canton of Geneva: how can managers distinguish margin from cash before approving expenditure?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/geneve-finance-pour-non-financiers-distinguer-marge-et-tresorerie-geneve-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2024-02-22",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "A profitable business activity can still run short of cash. Research on financial literacy supports teaching this distinction without equating knowledge of terminology with sound decision-making.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Finance for Non-Financial Managers",
  "place": {
    "name": "Geneva",
    "region": "Genève",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Simple rules that make concepts usable",
      "point": "Alejandro Drexler, Greg Fischer and Antoinette Schoar (2014, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics) experimentally compared conventional accounting training with instruction based on simple rules among microentrepreneurs in the Dominican Republic."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The hasty conclusion",
      "point": "It would be tempting to conclude that finance can simply be replaced with a few rules of thumb."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence and current practice cannot establish",
      "point": "These studies do not concern managers in Geneva's private banks, international organisations or watch companies, so their transferability requires examination."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Genève",
      "point": "For a Geneva team, a practical application of the SHR programme would be to work through a hypothetical watch order involving an advance payment to a supplier, delivery and deferred customer payment."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Mitchell",
      "year": "2014",
      "source": "Journal of Economic Literature"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Schoar",
      "year": "2014",
      "source": "American Economic Journal: Applied Economics"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 464,
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/geneve-finance-pour-non-financiers-distinguer-marge-et-tresorerie-geneve-en",
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    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}