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Do you know what your international assignments are worth?

Peer behind the walls of today's corporations and you're likely to find executives analyzing and scrutinizing a constant stream of bits and bytes from their spreadsheets. As they sift through return on investment and net margins, long-term debt and capital expenditures, they struggle for ways to eke out ever-greater profitability and productivity. Managers know the value of their assets; they know the worth of their capital expenditures. They can print out simple arithmetic equations that show measurable results. They can produce clear statements about performance objectives.

Yet when the topic turns to …