Future CFO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Finance teams found their way in 2024 to keep up with the ever-changing market landscape brought about by a number of factors. The accountancy profession, as we know it, faced challenges in technology--what with the concerns on how artificial intelligence poses threat on their jobs regarding the way it can take over their roles.

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Accounting Finance Problem Solving Accounts Payable 105

CFO Plans

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In today’s dynamic financial services industry, establishing expertise is about more than just crunching numbers. Such scenarios underscore the importance of a robust small business financial strategy , often necessitating the outsourcing of accounting tasks to professionals.

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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 Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

AI in the “Real World” While these powerful tools seem to have a near mastery of natural language communication, they are not necessarily designed to possess many of the skills required by finance and accounting professionals. They’re not very good at mathematics or dealing with numbers in general.

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CFO Plans

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Start Saving on Accounting Costs Today and transform your entrepreneurial journey with innovative financial solutions. The financial services industry is rapidly evolving, and entrepreneurs are discovering the transformative impact of cost-saving accounting services.

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CFO Share

JANUARY 2, 2025

But four days before year-end the busiest time of year for accounting firms they ran out of cash and ceased operations. For example, Bench ranked #1 in accounting SEO thanks to its professional marketing department. It’s like musical chairs except the number of chairs available is based on the Federal Funds Rate.

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CFO Selections

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When it comes to ethics in accounting the data is in and the numbers arent pretty! Addressing todays increasingly complex ethical issues requires strong leadership!

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Generation CFO

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Our sprints are short, focused innovations which have helped us significantly improve how we operate in specific areas such as VAT and management accounts,” says Josh. . “We The number of people who interact with us who say their problems are causing them stress or anxiety is extremely high.” . Contact Us.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

Not surprisingly, the company listings are across the world, and I look at the breakdown of companies, by number and market cap, by geography: As you can see, the market cap of US companies at the start of 2025 accounted for roughly 49% of the market cap of global stocks, up from 44% at the start of 2024 and 42% at the start of 2023.

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Simply Treasury

AUGUST 3, 2022

If connecting and digitizing means using a token to connect (manually) to each bank site, account by account, entity by entity, then we are far from it. Cost reduction by reducing number of banking solutions used. This is not what a professional treasurer would call "banking connectivity". PROJECT OBJECTIVES.

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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. SaveBetter pools high-interest savings accounts and CDs from financial institutions nationwide, giving customers access to high-yield accounts they otherwise wouldn’t know about. High-Yield Savings Account. No Penalty CD.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 11, 2023

retailers retracted its claim that “organized retail crime” accounted for nearly half of all inventory losses in 2021 after finding that incorrect data was used for its analysis.” Senate committee that organized retail crime accounted for $45 billion in annual losses for retailers, according to estimates by the coalition.

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Retail Profit and Loss Forecasting Accounting 141

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. Lev: One important element of successful due diligence is to look at the accounting.

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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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Practice Management Cash Management Leadership Numbers 130

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. The numbers yield interesting insights. .

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Global Finance

JULY 29, 2024

And they typically boast a deep understanding of accounting principles, analysis, and business strategy—essentials in guiding an organization toward its goals. Indeed, it’s hard to make accounting sexy when “Instagram influencer” is a viable career option. Many finance and accounting professionals, however, are only “technicians.”

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CFO Finance Accounting Principles Corporate Finance 97

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.

Finance 104

Finance Accounting Principles Problem Solving Accounting 104

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. In the first session of my valuation class, I pose a question, “What comes more naturally to you, telling a story or working with numbers?”

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Marketing Valuation Advertising Numbers 130

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. They may work in various industries, such as investment firms, accounting firms, banks, or the government. Senior Accountants. According to the U.S.

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Finance Budgeting Financial Analyst Compliance 130

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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Treasury Compliance Investments Accounting 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This video is part of our series “The Numbers That Defined 2022.”. One of the most important numbers of the year that you might not have heard of is 7.8 percent of Americans living in poverty counts as a policy victory, expect that number to be higher next year. Transcript. Census Bureau in September of 2022. So while just 7.8

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Generation CFO

JANUARY 27, 2022

However, anybody can look at the dashboard, set a numbers chart commentary and judge whether they understand or not. Insights are there, even if you don’t know everything. Sure, there is a psychology behind data visualisation. There is a huge technical capability behind analytics.

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CFO Finance Numbers Accounting 179

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. Centralization. Support for various business sectors.

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Budgeting Leadership Communication Leverage 178

Fpanda Club

MAY 17, 2022

No wonder, stakeholders can merely recognize the numbers they will be accountable for next year. Managers are focused on reaching the year-end numbers rather than on adapting to changing environment with its new threats and opportunities. Too many people involved. It doesn’t help run business. References: 1.

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Budgeting Planning Benchmarking Leadership 147

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. A higher-than-expected number might be viewed as just an outlier, he added.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 28, 2023

Binance customers shouldn’t “need a forensic accountant to find where their money is,” said John Reed Stark, a former chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Internet Enforcement. But that became mainstream and influenced politicians at the highest levels. ( regulators said. regulators said.

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Entertainment Accounting Securities Numbers 119

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. However, if you inherit a Roth IRA, you may be required to take RMDs from the account.

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Investments Accounting Marketing Education 130

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2023

He tells his classes “ What makes for a good valuation is you’re either a disciplined storyteller or an imaginative number cruncher.” ” Damodaran wants the verbal half of the class to use the numbers intelligently, while the more mathematically inclined need to put those numbers into a narrative that is understandable.

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Valuation Corporate Finance Investments Finance 122

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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Marketing Corporate Finance Valuation Finance 130

Future CFO

JUNE 24, 2024

Yes, in the sense that there are a lot of analyses that can now be handled by Gen AI and No, because it transforms accountants from number crunchers to strategic advisors. The Pitfalls of Gen AI There are always ethical implications with Gen AI as there should always be fairness, transparency and accountability in place.

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Auditing Financial Analysis Forecasting Reconciliations 111

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are one of the most popular savings vehicles because of their triple-tax advantage: account owners can take an above-the-line tax deduction for eligible contributions, growth in the account is tax-deferred, and withdrawals are tax-free if they are used for qualified healthcare expenses.

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Healthcare Planning Accounting Investments 130

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 31, 2024

Under the new law, non-spouse beneficiaries (with few exceptions) must now withdraw the entirety of an inherited IRA within 10 years of the account owner's passing rather than over their own lifetimes. This allows the account to grow on a tax-deferred basis, with income to beneficiaries being taxed when distributions are made.

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Nonprofit Tax Planning Planning Accounting 90

Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 19, 2024

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For example, while South African companies follow International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the US requires compliance with its Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Modern project management tools can help track these timelines and keep everyone accountable.

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IFRS GAAP Currencies CFO 98

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 28, 2023

trillion in assets, accounting for close to 80% of available market capitalization on U.S. Despite interest rates climbing at warp speed, a select number of big tech names have maintained, or even expanded their influence on the index over the last year. All of the companies in the S&P 500 are worth $7.1 stock exchanges.

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