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Planful vs. Vena

The Finance Weekly

A study revealed that inefficiencies in the traditional FP&A role, like manual preparation of P&Ls, balance sheets, and cash flows, lead to an annual economic loss of $6.1 As the FP&A software industry explodes, more and more businesses are looking for tools to help them budget, forecast, and automate their data.

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World’s Best Banks 2024: Global Winners

Global Finance

The banks “failed as a result of a combination of unrealized interest rate losses from their long-term, fixed-rate assets and the loss of the low-rate deposits that had funded these assets,” Larry Wall, research center executive director of the Atlanta Fed’s Center for Financial Innovation and Stability, explained in a blog post.

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3 FP&A Practices That Will Transform Your Finance Team

The Finance Weekly

When done incorrectly, the FP&A process is set on autopilot, with the goal of just "keeping track" of figures and producing budgets, often for the sake of the process. Traditionally, the FP&A process entails creating a budget, cash flow, profit and loss statement, and balance sheet, then using them to forecast future performance.

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A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business!

Musings on Markets

In the 1970s, Hollywood discovered the payoff from blockbuster movies, and the movie business became increasingly dependent on the biggest blockbusters delivering enough revenues and profits to cover a whole host of movies that either lost money or broke even. With Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime, the game is even more difficult to gauge.

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The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications!

Musings on Markets

Not surprisingly, the operating metrics change as companies age, with high revenue growth accompanied by big losses (from work-in-progress business models) and large reinvestment needs (to delivery future growth) in early-stage companies to large profits and free cash flows in the mature phase to stresses on growth and margins in decline.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

CFO News Room

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. When consumers think about cash flow management, the word ‘budget’ might come to mind. He has an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from the University of Virginia. Read more of Adam’s articles here.

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The Sharing Economy come home: The IPO of Airbnb!

Musings on Markets

In summary, coming into 2020, Airbnb was delivering a combination of growth driven by disruption and a pathway to profitability that made them a prime candidate for a public offering. In addition, growth in the experiences business will also push this metric upwards, since Airbnb keeps a 20% share of those revenues.