CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That recovery notwithstanding, uncertainties about inflation and the economy remained unresolved, and those uncertainties became part of the market story in the third quarter of 2023. The Markets in the Third Quarter Coming off a year of rising rates in 2022, interest rates have continued to command center stage in 2023.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

With each of my classes, I am sure that purists in each of these areas would blanch not just at my choice of topics that matter, but also at my sloppiness in description, but I will let you be the judge of content. The place to start is with accounting. Along the way, I emphasize what I believe to be long standing truths about valuation.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

More than 75% of brands have a dedicated budget for influencer marketing, from Coca Cola’s #ThisOnesFor campaign in collaboration with fashion and travel influencers, to Dior’s award-winning 67 Shades campaign in which the brand partnered with diverse influencers to promote its Forever Foundation product line. Number of Followers.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For investment advisers looking to attract prospective clients, advertising the performance of their investment strategies would be a logical way to market their services (at least if they had strong historical returns!). Two final prohibitions under the Marketing Rule include restrictions on the use of predecessor performance (e.g.,

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Pre-game Prep. If there is a lesson be learnt from the last few years of market mayhem, it is that far too many investors, professional as well as retail, seem to have lost their moorings (or never had them in the first place), when it comes to the basics of accounting, finance and statistics.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled for after the market closed. This dance between companies and investors, playing out in expected and actual earnings, is a feature of every earnings season, especially so in the United States, and it has always fascinated me.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Investors, used to a decade of better-than-expected earnings and rising stock prices at these companies, have been blindsided by unexpected bad news in earnings reports, and have knocked down the market capitalization of these companies by hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few weeks.

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Fpanda Club

APRIL 18, 2022

Marketing teams, being among FP&A’s counterparties, are usually considered to be the most creative people in the company. To perform these functions marketing, as a discipline, possesses a wide range of tools and techniques that can be used to analyze data, verify hypotheses and communicate information.

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Bramasol

MAY 23, 2024

Previous episodes in this Insights Series have explored the challenges created by new Digital Solutions Economy paradigms for billing, fulfillment, invoicing, revenue accounting, and compliance across a wide range of industries. Entitlement Management - Tracking and managing software licenses to ensure they are accounted for accurately.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 3, 2024

economy) contracted for the 12th consecutive month, the services sector (constituting about 78% of GDP) expanded for the 11th consecutive month, serving as a primary driver behind continued wage inflation as well as tightness in the labor market. The labor market, while still remarkably resilient, has also started to show signs of stress.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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CFO Share

JANUARY 2, 2025

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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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

In corporate finance and investing, which are areas that I work in, I find myself doing double takes as I listen to politicians, market experts and economists making statements about company and market behavior that are fairy tales, and data is often my weapon for discerning the truth. Aggregate operating numbers 3.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But economists say it’s not clear how much of that will show up in the labor numbers. Tom Simons, money market economist at Jefferies, expects 260,000 jobs were added in January, but he said the number could be even higher. “The market is so desperate to find in anything a reason that the Fed is going to pivot. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

7) that it is supporting SWIFT ’s latest service to speed effortless global cross-border payments for small- and medium-sized business (SMBs) and consumer markets. “We Oracle Banking Payments announced Wednesday (Oct. The subsidiary of Oracle Corp. is an IT solution provider to the financial services industry.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The results suggest the labor market remains extremely tight. The number of ongoing claims for state unemployment programs totaled 1.960 million for the week ending November 27, a rise of 403,147 from the prior week (see second chart). The low level of claims and high number of open jobs suggest the labor market remains very tight.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The future of the initial public offering (IPO) market in the Southeast Asian region comes with expected interest rate cuts alongside easing inflation may create a more favourable environment for IPOs in the years ahead, according to Deloitte. For the first 10.5 For the first 10.5 billion raised across 163 IPOs in 2023.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 23, 2023

You can open an account in 3-5 minutes. Manage all of your accounts from a single dashboard. In a highly volatile market, deciding how to invest your money is as challenging as ever, which is why rising interest rates have led many investors toward the safety of savings accounts and Certificates of Deposit (CDs).

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Navigator SAP

JULY 15, 2022

Your ERP platform should be able to unify different modules for different areas of the business, including payroll, bills of material, inventory, accounting, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and others, helping these different departments communicate. Integrated AI and e-commerce with digital marketing.

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The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Creating a marketing plan can often feel overwhelming. Whether youre a CMO or a marketing operations manager, the challenge of making the most of your budget while hitting your targets is no small feat. What is a Marketing Plan? Step 1: Conduct a Marketing Audit Why Start with an Audit? Heres a step-by-step breakdown.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thus far, the numbers do not bear out a massive uptake of a business model, that for the stakeholders, is essentially free (There are roughly 38 banks signed on and 5 million users of CoDi, as measured in late 2020). Basically, they were using the accounts twice a month.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A Roth IRA is a type of individual retirement account (IRA) that allows you to contribute after-tax money and withdraw it tax-free in retirement. It is named after Senator William Roth, who sponsored the legislation that created the account. Market Fluctuations. What is a Roth IRA? What are The Benefits of a Roth IRA?

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It Football was such an alpha male world and over time that became an adapted part of my DNA, but when I entered the accounting world I quickly realised I had to unlearn that behaviour once again in order to adapt,” says James.

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Global Finance

JANUARY 2, 2025

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. So dont wait until a crisis is at its peak and you incur losses, lose market share, lose customers.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 20, 2023

While it remains to be seen whether the measures will actually be enacted, proposed measures include raising income and capital gains tax rates, instituting wealth taxes, and reducing the state estate tax exemption, potentially creating future planning opportunities for advisors with clients in those states.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 4, 2022

ET, and is in special focus since the Federal Reserve has been concerned that the hot labor market and rising wages have been helping fuel inflation. Economists expect the Fed’s tighter money policy will ultimately result in negative monthly payroll numbers, but not yet. “The same thing is true in the shipping industry.”

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Global Finance

JULY 31, 2024

In return, Mastercard offers expertise in complying with regional regulations, market entrance and the ability to license and certify products. The Caribbean Development Bank reports that micro, small and midsize enterprises (MSMEs) account for around 50% of regional jobs and 60% to 70% of GDP.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 13, 2023

Also in industry news this week: A study suggests that simplification is the top reason consumers combine their investment accounts, signaling that the onboarding process for new advisory client assets is a value-add in itself.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

The FinTech group is reportedly mulling setting aside a significant number of shares for users if it goes public, but it has yet to make any final decisions, according to Bloomberg, who cited unnamed sources. billion during a financing round in September and has more than 13 million user accounts, said Bloomberg.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The next logical step might be to take your company to international markets by listing on a foreign stock exchange. For example, while South African companies follow International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the US requires compliance with its Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

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Future CFO

JUNE 24, 2024

The budget and forecast should reflect the Company’s plans, visions, expectations and educated guesses on the market trends. It integrates the know-how of a seasoned finance professional with data crunching, scenario analysis and understanding of external factors like market trends, customer behaviour and supply chain disruptions in a blitz.

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Fpanda Club

MAY 17, 2022

No wonder, stakeholders can merely recognize the numbers they will be accountable for next year. Usually focused on the performance during the next 12 months, budgets are often obsolete before they are even finished especially in the companies operating in highly competitive and dynamic markets. Too many people involved.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 28, 2023

trillion in assets, accounting for close to 80% of available market capitalization on U.S. The tech sector makes up over 26% , with Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia as the top S&P 500 companies by market capitalization. All of the companies in the S&P 500 are worth $7.1 stock exchanges.

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Future CFO

JULY 21, 2024

Given the advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the accounting profession faces challenges in talent as it continues to navigate its way around digitisation and shifts in the market. AI allows room for improvement like focusing on higher-level tasks and upskilling," he notes.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment numbers for Financial Managers are expected to rise by 17% over the next decade , faster than the average for all occupations. Most financial managers have previous experience working in market analysis and forecasting positions similar to this one. Senior Accountants. Insurance Advisor.

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