CFO News Room

DECEMBER 10, 2022

What Types of Accounts are Best for Compounding? Banks Savings Accounts. Most savings accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit earn compound interest. Taxable vs. tax-deferred vs. tax-free accounts. It’s also possible to take advantage of tax-free accounts. 3) Money Market Accounts.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. I am not an accountant, and have no desire to be one, but I have used their output (accounting statements) as raw material in valuation and corporate finance.

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CFO Plans

MAY 30, 2024

Yet, many businesses struggle with the complexities of accounting, often leading to costly mistakes and missed opportunities. Discover how outsourcing accounting services can improve your financial health , enabling businesses to focus on growth while ensuring their financial health is in expert hands.

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CFO Plans

JUNE 14, 2024

In today’s AI-powered business environment, accounting is no longer just about crunching numbers. Let’s explore five key accounting services that can transform your business operations and help you stay ahead of the competition.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It’s Black Friday and you know what that means: Lots of promotional sales and lots of holiday retail spending forecasts. Holiday retail sales have averaged an increase of 4.9% over the past 10 years, with pandemic spending in recent years accounting for considerable gains.” billion and $960.4

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CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

1,037: Optimizing Growth and Margins: A CFO’s Strategic Playbook | Regi Vengalil, CFO, Trax Retail The post The Mentoring Round | Regi Vengalil, CFO, Trax Retail appeared first on CFO THOUGHT LEADER.

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VCFO

JANUARY 23, 2023

Five Key Aspects of Accountability in Your Business Inflation issues and supply chain woes aren’t going away anytime soon. Achieving these aims also requires accountability, as even the best of plans will fall short in its absence. At its core, accountability in a business center on setting expectations and holding people to them.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And in business-to-business (B2B) payments, adopting automation for accounts receivable (AR) takes the struggle out of manually following up on overdue payments. Target ’s “Deal Days” are set to compete day-to-day with Amazon’s proprietary holiday , which was confirmed just hours before Target’s. All this, Today in Data.

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VCFO

JUNE 2, 2023

Navigating a New Era of Retail – Three Financial and Operational Factors The market and operating environments of retail businesses have undergone dramatic transformations since the turn of the millennium; transformations that accelerated significantly more with the outset of the COVID pandemic.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. They and others have succeeded because they entered the market independent of traditional retail, and because their business model fit the needs of the pandemic.

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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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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Account takeovers are becoming bigger business for criminals — or, at least, the business of preventing account takeovers in the digital retail and payments realm is becoming an increasing focus of companies and security experts. Account Takeover Growth.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The dramatic consumer shift to Digital 3.0 — predicted months ago by the PYMNTS COVID-19 tracker work — is accounting for almost half of the retail growth in the US. It found that eCommerce growth as of May 1 was up 68 percent, surpassing 40 percent of total retail sales. Overall Chinese retail sales of consumer goods dropped 2.8

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CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

I had commercial finance, I had accounting. You deserve to be here, and your judgment and experience can make a difference -Regi Vengalil, CFO, Trax Retail CFOTL: Tell us about Trax Retail. It was a way for me to jump in with both feet to kind of get a full, you know, it wasn’t just a pure FP&A role. Trust your voice.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

Walmart is hoping customers will sign up for its Walmart MoneyCard to create a direct deposit account to access the government stimulus payments being sent out this week, touting waived fees and quick access, according to an emailed press release. The retail giant said the process would be safe, easy and affordable. in the release. .

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CFO Share

MARCH 13, 2023

Managing accounts payable is critical for any business to maintain healthy cash flow and vendor relationships. Financial ratios are essential tools that help companies evaluate their financial performance, including their ability to manage accounts payable effectively. What is accounts payable in ratio analysis?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

But in other ways, it was business as usual, as the two biggest retailers in the world – Walmart and Amazon – posted stellar earnings numbers and competed in more muted ways for the U.S. The eCommerce giant accounted for 3.2 percent of total retail) and the results are significant, considering Amazon’s revenue base.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Despite a recent surge in coronavirus cases, retailers are fighting for a rework and loosening of shopping restrictions before Black Friday and the holiday season. Retailers that sell essential items alongside their other products have been labelled “essential,” giving them an unfair advantage over other stores, some allege.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Lilia Metodieva, managing director at Monneo , said virtual international bank account numbers (IBANs) can help firms gain scale internationally, and customize payments to serve the needs of their end customers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

In retail technology, Yotpo is helping brands capture the digital shift by making a compressed marketing stack for online shopping. Social shopping is the newest hot trend fueled by the pandemic, as new startups are emerging and established brands such as Macy’s are catching up to capture this area. All this, Today in Data.

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Future CFO

APRIL 10, 2024

Retail organisations in the Asia-Pacific region are selecting Workday Financial Management to drive greater profitability, according to a recent press release from the system software company. Retailers across the APAC region including Aesop, Charles & Keith, Kolmar Korea Holdings Co., Ltd, Mondelez, MUSINSA Co.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

“We are essentially taking glass doors that were probably underutilized and not asking the retailer for any additional physical space.”. From a business standpoint, we believe that things like sales lift are obviously a really important metric,” Dravenstott said, “and you don't hear that much in brick and mortar retail.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

As the United States experiences a coin shortage due to the pandemic, some brick-and-mortar retailers are forcing consumers to tell cashiers to “keep the change.”. Not only will those customers give the grocers some personal information in doing so, but they’ll presumably revisit the retailer in the future to spend their unused change.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

And in many places, for the first time, our retailers are open to it. Narlinger said that stored value exists all over the commerce landscape — in rewards or loyalty accounts currently holding points, frequent flyer miles or stars. They're seeing this as an opportunity to change and shift.”. Unlocking Stored Value . Can we unpack it?’

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Death, taxes and data breaches – those are perhaps the only sure things in life, and new evidence is emerging that hackers are finding increasing profit in targeting online retailers. The news comes amid yet another online retail cyberattack, this one targeting Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Google Cloud is rolling out Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a new suite of services that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help eCommerce firms deliver personalized consumer experiences during a shopping journey’s initial phase. "As Vision API Product Search.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

If so, one can probably remember the fantastical predictions that, before too long, brick-and-mortar retail would go the way of the horse-and-buggy. Physical retail may be going through some tough times. It should almost feel like you are walking in a live Instagram account,” she said when describing the ideal SHOWFIELDS experience.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Digital sports entertainment and gaming industry platform DraftKings — known for its top-rated daily fantasy sports and mobile sports betting apps — today announced an agreement with InComm Payments , a global leading payments technology company, to launch an industry-first retail gift card. . DraftKings reported on Friday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Shoppers may be quick to take their business elsewhere if these demands are not met, with 66 percent of respondents saying they had at least once given up opening accounts due to poor experiences. The offering supports merchants’ onboarding and verifying new users as well as securing their accounts. Read more in the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

The Palo Alto, California startup said the no-fee account is the company’s latest move to build a next-generation banking service that is branchless, automated and optimizes every dollar. A debit card can now be added to the Wealthfront Cash Account to make purchases and get cash from a nationwide network of fee-free ATMs. percent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit against Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bancorp alleging that employees opened accounts for customers without their consent in an effort to reach sales targets, according to reports on Tuesday (March 10). The CFPB filed a complaint with the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

said it plans to put many of its retail staffers on leave. Ulta Beauty said its retail locations would remain shuttered up to the time that it is safe to open them again. The company also said it would keep taking into account guidance from local, state, and federal authorities about when to open the stores again. .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

For retailers, it’s better to be hot in 2020 than top. The National Retail Federation (NRF) said on its blog this week that the Hot 100 Retailers, while vulnerable to mergers and acquisitions, as a group is more stable than the Top 100 Retailers ranking, as stores are impacted by the unpredictability of COVID-19.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Retail sales increased in August to $537.5 Most of the retail categories saw improvements last month. Most of the retail categories saw improvements last month. General merchandise retailers saw sales increase to $60.3 June saw total retail sales rise to $524.3 retail and foodservice firms. . billion, up 0.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Findings from PYMNTS Retail Banking Services’ Paradigm Shift speak volumes about the shifts happening in customer preference, and how FIs can capitalize on new information formats. There’s a reason that bank apps and websites ask, “was this information helpful?”. Often as not the answer is “no.” Irrelevant, Ill-Suited Info.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

retailers are concerned about a supply chain problem. While no direct evidence has been presented for a supply chain interruption from China, a new Wells Fargo report says concerns are rising among retailers. Every retailer has what’s known as an ‘All Hazard Plan.’ Chinese retailers are being hit hard.

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