The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Yes, a business should value its human assets because it is the way to evaluate the productivity of the employee and if it is accomplishing its goals and working in the way the company is expecting it to perform. Should it be included in the company's balance sheet? Here is where the specialists' opinion is divided. Some Human Resources managers say that it is difficult to apply a financial value to people to be included as a component of the balance sheet. Others think that it could be possible but it is not the traditional way to do it and it exposes some risks. What indeed specialist agree on is in the fact that some way or the other, the human factor has to be considered in the evaluation process to make business decisions.