If a company really wanted to invest, I would prefer they dedicated an employee for X hours a week for Y months than money.

Money could be good if it is spent to provide some of the above things. Money on it's own is hard because then it means I would have to spend time book-keeping and managing instead of programming.

The recording of financial transactions, so that summaries of the financials may be presented in financial reports, is known as bookkeeping, of which double-entry bookkeeping is the most common system.

Elec­tronic Recording Machine Accounting (ERMA)