CFO Network

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Keep reading to learn how business owners can use data through benchmarking and reporting to gain a competitive edge and improve business operations. What is Benchmarking? Benchmarking is the idea of comparing your company and its process and operations against your competitors. Why is Benchmarking so Important?

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CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Even with solid retail sales data, traders in interest rate futures increased odds that the Federal Reserve will cut the benchmark interest rate Wednesday by a half point.

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CFO News

AUGUST 8, 2023

India should be confident enough to deconstruct the rest of the world on its own terms as a rising economic power, creating global norms and benchmarks in various fields, Sanjeev Sanyal, Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, said

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CFO Dive

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Demand for commercial and industrial loans fell during the third quarter as the Fed pushed up the benchmark interest rate to a 22-year high.

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CFO Dive

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note surged after the September payrolls report on expectations of strong economic growth.

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CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The proposal would extend accounting relief for another two years to borrowers switching LIBOR-linked loans to new benchmarks.

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CFO Dive

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Plans by the Federal Reserve to raise the benchmark interest rate probably will not quickly rein in the fastest price increases in four decades, most CEOs said in a survey.

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The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Today, well walk through what net profit margin means, how to calculate it, and benchmarks to consider based on your industry. Benchmarks for Net Profit Margin Across Industries Every industry operates differently, and benchmarks for a healthy net profit margin vary widely. What Is Net Profit Margin?

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CFO Dive

JULY 25, 2023

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise the benchmark rate again this week. Finance executives must adjust their strategies, PwC’s Wes Bricker asserts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A recent report released by the United Nations found that 132 out of 194 countries have now introduced data protection regulations of some kind, all varying in terms of what type of information they protect and the severity of their restrictions.

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CFO Dive

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Policymakers reduced the benchmark interest despite signs that their nearly three-year fight to push down inflation to their 2% target has stalled.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 4, 2023

While not much changed in the JOLTS report for November, when we benchmark against latest peaks and troughs, we can see how much these labor market metrics have moderated over the last two years. The quits rate remains elevated but has also been generally moving back towards historic benchmarks. Read the full Twitter thread here.

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Cube Software

JULY 1, 2024

Key financial metrics for benchmarking Financial metrics are the backbone of strategic planning and decision-making for any finance leader. They provide a quantifiable means to assess your company's financial performance, identify strengths and weaknesses, and set realistic goals.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Benchmarked against peaks and troughs, labor market metrics have clearly moderated in recent months. Job openings increased in the latest #JOLTS data for Dec 2022 as hires and separations edged up. Even with the uptick, job openings remain significantly lower than their peak.

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CFO Dive

MARCH 14, 2022

Recently passed federal legislation may not avert disruptions from some financial contracts linked to LIBOR that need to adopt a new benchmark rate.

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Fpanda Club

MARCH 1, 2021

Benchmarking is an extremely powerful tool, but unfortunately, this kind of data, accumulated by consulting firms and professional associations conducting surveys and research on various adjacent topics, is not easily available or is highly fragmented. Sources: 1. APQC, AFP Next level of FP&A study, 2019 2.

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CFO News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Experts predict that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will maintain the current benchmark interest rate at its bi-monthly monetary policy review due to elevated inflation and global factors. The RBI has kept the rate unchanged in the last three policy reviews and is expected to continue with the existing rate structure.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

But unlike other Budget Days, benchmarks ended the day in the green, as investors cheered a growth-oriented Budget. The government’s record borrowing plans for the next financial year sent benchmark bond yields to two-and-a-half years high. By Yoosef Kp & Ruchit Purohit. After surging as much as 1,018.03

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Similarly, the yield on benchmark securities rose nearly 20-25 basis points and touched a 30-month high since the start of the week. The benchmark yield ended marginally down on Friday at 6.8789%. The recent spike in corporate bond yields was post G-Sec yields moving up in reaction to the large borrowing programme.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The new benchmark 6.54%-2032 bond yield ended 14 basis points higher at 6.8279%, compared to 6.6841%. The old benchmark 6.10%-2031 bond yield ended 16 basis points up at 6.8458%, as against 6.6829% close on Monday. lakh crore and a revised fiscal deficit of 6.9% for the current fiscal year, higher than the earlier estimate of 6.8%.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In bond markets, the yield on the benchmark U.S. Oil prices climbed, with the global benchmark Brent crude up 0.5% “Every investor is so spooked now, and nobody really has a compass to figure out where exactly we are in this cycle.”. 10-year Treasury note ticked up to 1.847% from 1.825% Thursday. Yields and prices move inversely.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In recent trading, the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. The Treasury Department building in Washington. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg News. government bond yields climbed sharply after a strong January jobs report. Treasury note was 1.883%, according to Tradeweb, compared with 1.825% Thursday.

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CFO News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

India is setting standards in pharmaceuticals and like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), we should also aim to create Bharat Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for global standards and benchmarks, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has stressed.

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Fpanda Club

MAY 17, 2022

To support this shift, fixed targets should be replaced by the relative ones, for example, based on the benchmarks. APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® Performance Assessment in Planning and Management Accounting 2. 2022 AFP FP&A Benchmarking: Practitioner Planning Report References: 1.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The yield on the new benchmark 10-year government securities inched up again on Tuesday, albeit marginally, to 6.85%, having risen by 15 basis points in the previous day. The benchmark has risen 40 basis points (bps) so far in 2022 on top of the 56 bps in 2021. The Centre’s gross market borrowing is estimated at Rs 10.47

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CFO News

APRIL 7, 2023

Since last year, central banks have been raising their benchmark lending rates to tackle inflation, which rose to levels not seen for decades in many countries including the United States.

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Fpanda Club

MARCH 14, 2021

PwC’s Finance Effectiveness Benchmark Report 2019 highlights main finance processes with high potential for waste elimination : Source: PwC’s Finance Effectiveness Benchmark Report 2019 These opportunities for improvement are definitely attractive and worth efforts of lean implementation within the finance function.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2024

Whatever gains they had over the benchmark were soon consumed by their relatively high costs. Fidelity’s Peter Lynch was a rock-star stock picker and crushed all benchmarks over the next dozen or so years. But a small handful of academics had discovered that nearly all active fund managers were not earning their keep.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Along with the latest on payroll employment, unemployment, and wage growth, we will also get the final benchmark revisions for the establishment survey (CES). Preliminary benchmark revisions suggest job growth will be even stronger over the last two years than the 11.2 million previously reported.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Fed raised its benchmark federal-funds interest rate this week by 0.75 A Federal Reserve official signaled support Friday for continuing to raise interest rates but at a somewhat slower pace than the central bank has moved this year to avoid risks of too much tightening.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 20, 2023

The inflation benchmark, measuring price growth over a year, hit a 40-year high in June after months of sustained price increases. After a period of steep inflation, Americans have seen monthly price growth ease, but when will things get back to normal? Since then, monthly gains have slowed. While December 2022 prices were up 6.5%

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Generation CFO

DECEMBER 20, 2021

All of this, of course, supports the planning process and benchmarking between organisations. Benchmarking is a big subject that is becoming a real focal point for organisations as they try to attract and retain talent. . HR analytics is now a hot topic, with KPIs and metrics going far beyond purely numerical data.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2020

The 45 percent drop in the KBW Bank Index, a benchmark stock index of the banking sector, has eliminated $795 billion from its 24 constituents, which include J.P. Earlier this year, Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3 billion to settle charges stemming from a scandal involving widespread mistreatment of customers.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Survey data have been revised as a result of an annual benchmarking process and the updating of seasonal adjustment factors. Kathy Jones, chief fixed income strategist at Charles Schwab, told CNBC: “The benchmark revisions helped the numbers a bit just because it moved out some of the seasonal factors that have been at work.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The benchmark 10-year U.S. The spread between the Italian bond yield and the German benchmark, considered a barometer of financial stress in the region, rose to its highest level in over 18 months. . Government bond yields surged world-wide after a strong report on the U.S. It was at 1.25% at the start of the week. on Friday.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bloomberg clients will now have the ability to harness the firm’s terminal to examine Credit Benchmark’s risk data, which comes from the risk views of the biggest financial institutions in the world.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

After benchmarking against UI records, total payroll employment for March 2022 was revised up by 568k jobs. These trends are not driving inflation. pic.twitter.com/94jmSRCWvR — Elise Gould (@eliselgould) February 3, 2023 Not only was job growth in January stronger than anticipated, the revisions were larger as well.

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