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The Balanced Scorecard for Associations: A CFO’s Strategic Guide

Andrew Schwartz Crane, CMA
by Andrew Schwartz Crane, CMA
on February 25, 2025 10:00:00 AM EST

The Balanced Scorecard, introduced by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the early 1990s, was originally developed as a performance management framework for corporations. It was designed to help ...

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