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Achieving the Right Balance of Risk and Return in Corporate Investments 

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Achieving the Right Balance of Risk and Return in Corporate Investments When handling corporate investments, CFOs often face the balancing act between risk and return. Know Your Comfort Zone for Risk Before diving into investments, have a clear discussion with your board or executive team about your company’s tolerance for risk.

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Startup lessons in the failure of Bench Accounting

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For years, we have struggled to compete with Bench’s war chest as they invested millions into digital marketing, crowding out small firms like us. But four days before year-end the busiest time of year for accounting firms they ran out of cash and ceased operations. Here’s how it happens.

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Avoiding The M&A Failure Trap: Q&A With NYU’s Baruch Lev And SUNY Buffalo’s Feng Gu

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Baruch Lev is Philip Bardes professor emeritus of Accounting and Finance, Kaufman Management Center, Leonard N. Feng Gu is chair and professor of Accounting and Law at the School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo. There was a large, continuous increase in write-offs of goodwill in investment in acquisitions.

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Investors Back B2B Startups With An Eye On SMB Finance

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Some startups focused on data aggregation to expand underwriting capabilities, while others operate platforms to facilitate financing. But it was a startup wielding the corporate card to enable digital lunch vouchers for employees that landed the largest round of the week. Utility account aggregation company Urjanet secured $14.65

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Swedish Startup Lendify Closes $115M Funding Deal

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Swedish peer-to-peer (P2P) lending startup Lendify has secured $115 million in funding from Insight Investment, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday (Oct. Last year Insight Investment supported the digital lender with a 1.5 In the past, the startup was supported by P2P lending and institutional capital.

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Orion Acquires Summit Wealth Systems To Become Its Next-Generation All-In-One Portal (And More Of The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech – January 2025)

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FINNY AI, an AI-powered prospecting tool, has raised $4.2

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Payments Startup Veem Introduces New Tool For Easy B2B Payments 

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Global payments startup Veem is launching a new business-to-business (B2B) tool to simplify and automate domestic payments, the company announced in a Wednesday (Nov. even people who don’t have a Veem account. . The new investment will be used to further expand its global footprint as well as improve its tools and capabilities. .

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