Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. They have each other’s phone numbers. The stock market’s winners and losers will be different too.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2024

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that financial advisors continue to move towards ETFs and away from mutual funds when it comes to client portfolio recommendations, though a majority of advisors continue to see a role for active management in the investment management process A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging (..)

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The CFO College

JUNE 3, 2021

Increase Your Value and Boost Your Services with Two CFO-Level Accounting Tools. Yes, automations can crunch numbers, but there is so much more to providing accounting services than calculations. When you bill two clients at $4,200 per month, just do the math. Done right, this will add big value to your clients!

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Hopefully, we’ll fall far short of that number. . Doing some simple math (25% x 12 months = 3 months), we can safely say that you should start with a goal of at least 3 months of expenses as your operating reserve. And it helps you and your team be accountable for reaching your goals. Get the free guide!

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Breaking down the Math. billion is the first number that came out of the research and this represents the total amount of money lost by manual financial work. This number represents how much of an economic uplift could occur “if FP&A departments hit a conservative 0.1% billion is the 2nd half of the study.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Visa noted, too, that debit spending has been high in the wake of repeated waves of stimulus payments deposited directly onto debit cards or in bank accounts. There's a number of different models … We're not in the business of picking winners and losers. We see our job as enablement no matter what the model is.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Then, Krakaris does some math on the backend to find out where merchants should send their products. Protein powders and makeup account for a huge space for the company, according to Krakaris, and the company also carries toys and games along with art supplies.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

Efforts to boost success rates can be improved by plugging into account updaters and new technologies, including network tokenization. But to steal a line from Shakespeare, “the readiness is all” – and a significant number of merchants have yet to meet the challenges of commerce done mostly online. Rethinking ROI.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But as markets saw their prices fall, bitcoin’s numbers went up. Not because we don’t understand it or we can’t understand the math [but] because there is no security whatsoever…” “Some people have hundreds of thousands of dollars on their smartphone wallet. International markets opened Wednesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2017

As it turns out, fraudsters – upon encountering a more sophisticated lock on the commerce “front doors” that are retail POS terminals – did not decide to give up their lives of digital crime in favor of becoming math teachers in Belarus. The important focus is on two prongs: The first is when you come to me and ask for an account.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The math shakes out thus: Each token is equivalent to one share in a particular company and the holder has the right to receive dividends, even though, as Bloomberg noted, “the companies themselves are not involved.”. MPS MarketPlace holds a license from Cyprus’ financial regulator and will hold the stocks in a separate account.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

When we had this conversation, I initially joked that we would need to set up “braces savings accounts” for them instead of 529 college savings plans. When you actually do the math, traditional braces or Invisalign can easily cost $24,000 or more for four kids! Be sure to shop around and compare rates before making a decision.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just the math of an advisory firm only goes so far at the end of the day.” I could do the rough math on his firm. just to make the math easy. And so, I said to him, “Well, just look if you, not to be crass, but if your advisors are that above average, were you paying them above average? If you charge 1.1

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As a starting point, it’s important to understand that as the financial services industry has evolved into the digital age, it has become increasingly common for financial advisors to rely on web-based business development strategies where the typical number of ‘prospects’ who visit the advisor’s website are often astronomically large.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While China does seem to produce more total research in terms of papers and is leading in patents—accounting for 61.1% Arcesati notes, “The US has historically excelled at attracting top STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] talent from abroad, while China has struggled to do so.

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This doesn’t mean that your CFO handles accounting and tax preparation personally, but they do manage relationships with the people responsible for those things. Or maybe you just rely on your bank account balance to do the math for you. While a CFO isn’t an accountant, they can help set you up with a bookkeeping solution.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Crypto Savings Accounts. And while it’s possible to earn cash, an increasing number of survey services compensate you in points, which are redeemable for prizes or gifts. residents 18+ and subject to account approval. Crypto Savings Accounts. Investing in Cryptocurrency. 100s to $10,000s per month. Capital to invest.

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how after a few mentors in China suggested that Danqin look into private banking and wealth management (as they felt it better suited her than her initial accounting major), she began Googling potential career paths in China but instead came across the CFP Board website and immediately connected with the description (..)

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Those numbers are so stark that they are worth repeating. Doing The Math. But time is of the essence, and it remains to be seen whether the money flows into SMBs’ bank accounts as quickly as Secretary Mnuchin predicted — and whether it more than offsets what banks and other lenders have cut from those SMBs’ usual sources of capital.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. This made me decide to pursue my education in accounting. After graduation, I started my career in finance at Arthur Anderson as an auditor and became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Woranat Dumrongsiri (WD): My interest in finance began in high school.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

These are the types of considerations Outschool is taking into account as it devises more formal subscription programs. We actually automatically unsubscribe parents from a class if their kid hasn’t attended in more than a certain number of sessions,” Nathoo said. We’re exploring bundles by topic, so math for age 8, [for example]. …

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Take, for example, how the Fed views statistics, such as employment numbers, when it’s thinking about inflation or raising rates so quickly, which is really constraining to people on an actual budget facing other inflationary pressures, and, by the way, not actually doing anything about inflation. So those numbers are disparate.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Also, Wells Fargo managed to get everyone’s attention with what it was caught doing — creating 2 million falsified consumer accounts. Over the course of several years, Wells Fargo employees were caught signing their customers up for credit cards they never asked for and bank accounts they didn’t need. That’s the easy part of it.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Today, based on brand-new PYMNTS proprietary analysis, Walmart accounts for roughly 8.9 And the investments that Amazon is making in other areas outside of retail account for large chunks of the consumer’s paycheck overall, and will continue to do so in the years to come. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. Source: PYMNTS.com.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Such boxes represent a small segment of the broader subscription market, but they face the same challenges, including fraud attempts like card-and-wallet tests and account takeovers (ATOs). Box-of-the-month services constantly struggle to secure their payment processes and remain a step ahead of bad actors. Keeping Fraudsters Out Of The Box.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Payroll is a combination of math and moving money,” the CEO noted. That’s probably the number one request we get, when we’re asked, ‘Is there anything you can do about turnaround time of ACH?’” he said. It’s out of our control, so we cannot wait for real-time payments to come into effect in the U.S. and Canada.”.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Kris Giswold (KG): My journey in finance began with my love of puzzles and numbers. I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Numbers could tell a story, they could explain behaviours and predict the future.

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CFO Talks

JULY 6, 2022

‘ I love breaking the mould of what it is to be a traditional accountant’. Today’s podcast is sponsored by Draftworx, which provides automated drafting and working paper financial software to more than 8000 accounting and auditing firms and corporations. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants.

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Welcome to this SAIBA CFO podcast, SAIBA is the South African Institute of Business Accountants, it has more than 12 000 members and specialises in a wide range of disciplines such as accountancy and tax, training and development, career enhancement, legislation, designations and financial reporting.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

To join, consumers link their spending method(s) (credit cards, debit cards, digital wallets) of choice to their Drop accounts. Millennial consumers have demonstrated in any number of ways that they are value conscious and open to rewards programs. They just dont’ find having to work hard, or do advanced math, all that rewarding.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2016

And though you might be tempted to write this off as a theory developed by this writer spending way too much time around sitcom families, please note that Father’s Day offers us a unique opportunity to quantify the difference with a number. And those are very high spend categories; collectively they accounted for $6.6 In context, $7.1

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2017

By The Numbers. The iPhone numbers are the critical figures for Apple, since the product still drives over 60 percent of Apple’s total revenue and, as one analyst noted, “may not be the rocket ship” it once was. The number of developers offering apps for sale in the App store was also on the increase — up 26 percent over last year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2017

But one frustration uncovered, he added, was that “a lot of times [consumers] do not have enough money in their Seashells account to pay for the whole purchase” at a retailer. The account may be accruing $40–$50 monthly, he explained, but a single $200 transaction on Amazon would be out of reach.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. But he was wonderfully successful in the insurance environment.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. And a little bit of accountability, making sure that people are doing their implementation because they’re the ones responsible for it.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

By the end of yesterday – that number had bounced up another trillion dollars. “The math is the math, not matter how much we like London,” noted one marketplace lending exec on the condition of anonymity. By the end of Friday – $2 trillion was gone from the world markets. to get back on the SS E.U.)

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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