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

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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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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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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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The First Totally Honest Stock Market Story. FRIDAY’S MARKETS. The market rallied early this morning for reasons nobody understands and nobody predicted. Advances led declines by 4 to 1, the bond market was incomprehensibly boring, the Mets beat the Phillies 6 to 2, and Kate Winslet’s measurements remained 35-29-38.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A recent hack compromised around 2,000 Robinhood Markets accounts, suggesting the attacks were more widespread than previously realized, Bloomberg reported. Some victims protested, saying that their accounts had been taken over, their positions liquidated and their proceeds stolen.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 3, 2023

The chart shows the peak-to-trough declines of all the bear markets with the popular definition of a 20% decline, measured up until the start of the first 20% rally. As Batnick points out, all of these horrendous periods of market pain are already factored into long-term returns of equities. Have a look at the BAML chart above.

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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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Future CFO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Malaysian e-commerce market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.5% Further, the study reveals that Malaysia’s e-commerce market registered 12.2% According to GlobalData’s 2023 Financial Services Consumer Survey, alternative payment solutions accounted for a combined market share of 35.7%

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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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Global Finance

JUNE 4, 2024

China has taken the green bond market by storm since the broad bear market of 2022 and amplified its global lead in 2023, recent data from the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) shows. trillion) in both domestic and international markets, the country nearly doubled the second place, Germany, which issued roughly $67.5

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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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Bramasol

AUGUST 31, 2023

Over the past eight years, many episodes in this blog series have focused on revenue recognition and how SAP solutions such as Revenue Accounting and Reporting (RAR) have provided a robust foundation for compliance with ASC 606 and IFRS 15. This provides the basis for real-time matching of revenue and cost.

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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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Bramasol

JULY 31, 2023

This new post provides a deeper look at how the leasing of medical equipment along with other bundled services or products presents particular challenges for meshing contracts and lessor accounting with DSE management and revenue recognition. According to Allied Market Research, "The global medical equipment rental market was valued at $56.0

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In this post, I will revisit Facebook's most recent earnings report, and argue that while it contained disappointing news on growth and profitability, the bad news was exaggerated by systematic inconsistencies in how accountants categorize expenses, skewing earnings and invested capital down in firms that don't fit the accounting prototype.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 13, 2022

But accounting for in-kind donations presents its own unique challenges. In this article, we’ll dig into how to account for in-kind donations on your nonprofit’s books. Why accounting for in-kind donations matters. Accounting for in-kind donations isn’t just important; it’s required for many nonprofit organizations. .

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Accountants are optimistic about digital transformation, including artificial intelligence, according to a survey by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). The post Accountants optimistic on digital transformation appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Spreadym

JUNE 13, 2023

The chart of accounts is a systematic listing of all the financial accounts used by an organization. In the chart of accounts, each account is assigned a unique code or number and is categorized into various groups or categories. This code helps identify and locate the account easily.

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CFO News

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The number of demat account openings at domestic broking firms in India has increased during FY24 due to the stock market rally, low brokerage fees, and a surge in IPOs. However, the active client base has shrunk as market participants reduce trading due to volatile swings. crore, a 10.7% increase from March 31.

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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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Future CFO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Moreover, current market conditions drive private fund managers to hone in on their cash management practices , with many turning to strategies more commonly used by their corporate counterparts. Money market funds are “particularly attractive” as they generate yield on idle cash and are highly liquid, according to Quinn.

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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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Future CFO

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The numbers don’t lie -- or so the saying goes – but they rarely tell the whole story either, just like how the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) encompasses more than just finance and accounting. It used to be pretty much all about the numbers – but the narrative has changed. There I was, a CFO at 40 years old.

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Future CFO

MAY 21, 2023

Global top 100 firms have seen their largest market capitalisation drop by 11% in 2023, equivalent to almost US$3.8 Report highlights A challenging macroeconomic environment caused by ongoing tightening of fiscal policy, high inflation, and uncertainty surrounding the US and European banking sector have weighed on equity markets globally.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The number of U.S. single-family homes sold in November increased from previous rates, but at the same time, the number from October turned out to be lower than previously reported, according to a Reuters report. percent, which brought the number up to an annual rate of 719,000. This year’s numbers surged 16.9

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Jedox Finance

JUNE 24, 2021

This also affects the go-to-market processes in particular for the marketing and sales functions. A company’s web presence, which is usually designed by marketing, is becoming an increasingly important component in the sales process. Where marketing and sales converge. The evolution of marketing data.

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 25, 2024

For nonprofit organizations, accounting comes with a lot of complexity. Instead of slow, paper-driven, backward-looking accounting, these organizations are moving quickly through digital integrations allowing them to focus on their core responsibilities. What is the actual goal in a nonprofit accounting setup?

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you’re like most nonprofit leaders, you’re not researching nonprofit accounting basics to satisfy your curiosity. with this overview of nonprofit accounting basics. . What is nonprofit accounting? Investopedia defines accounting as “the process of recording financial transactions pertaining to a business.” .

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E78 Partners

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Today’s business environment is experiencing a notable deficit in skilled talent in the finance and accounting sectors, prompted by a transformation in professionals’ priorities. This is contributing to one of the most competitive finance and accounting talent markets in over a decade.

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Future CFO

MARCH 15, 2020

As a CFO I don't just focus on finance and accounting or treasury, I always wanted to understand the whole business of the companies that I have joined. He also talks about the Fintech disruption occurring in the market, and how to be part of the transformation impacting the industry.

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Embark With Us

JANUARY 19, 2022

So give us a few minutes as we explain how Alteryx is the next evolutionary step from Microsoft Excel and, most importantly, how it can reinvent your accounting function into a streamlined, nimble, and value-adding powerhouse for your entire enterprise. Like creating value in any number of initiatives you could be undertaking instead.

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

At the end of each calendar year, social media platforms compile a wrap-up of each user's metrics, showing a theoretical reach for every account's best-performing piece of created media content and highlighting the "Best Of The Best" on the web, while revealing social media 'superstars' who have millions of impressions and followers.

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Bramasol

JANUARY 31, 2022

Carbon Accounting was previously identified as one of the Five Key Trends to Watch in 2022 , and the compliance implications were explored in this blog post Are You Ready for "Carbon Accounting" Compliance? Often these complementary opportunities are focused around markets, operational capabilities, assets, etc.

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Future CFO

JULY 26, 2022

Liquidity woes have pushed the number of Asian high-yield companies with weak liquidity, in particular Chinese developers, to record highs according to proprietary indicators ending 30 June 2022, said Moody's Investors Service recently. Rated issuance year-to-date is at an all-time low of just US$1.2

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Boston Startup CFO

APRIL 3, 2023

But there's one aspect that often dampens those dreams: accounting. Fear not, dear startup founder, for we have a solution to ease your accounting woes—outsourcing. Here's how outsourcing your accounting can liberate you from number-crunching nightmares and help your startup flourish. Saving money, of course!

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