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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

CFO News Room

If you’re a chief marketing officer (CMO), the current economic uncertainty undoubtedly creates anxiety for you, your team, and your agencies. The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has demonstrated the tight correlation between advertising spend and economic indicators like GDP growth by looking at historical data.

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Government Spending Is Out of Control! LOL

Barry Ritholtz

The text accompanying that chart reads: “ Consumption: in 2024, one third of GDP came from government spending, a record high excluding periods of war or crisis; this was financed by 6-7% budget deficits, another unwelcome peacetime record.” Both the Wall St. Things are often not what they seem, and often not as you’re told.

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How much will GST impact Budget math?

CFO News

High GST boosts government revenue, aiding fiscal health, infrastructure, and social programs, enhancing economic stability and investor confidence.

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Beyond the numbers: What teaching shortages look like in practice

CFO News Room

One seventh-grade math teacher at the school livestreams to the three other schools daily and travels to those schools for in-person instruction once a week. and Edgenuity Inc. Other schools are trying to fill teacher vacancies by experimenting with four-day school weeks.

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This FP&A Factor will Cost US Businesses $7,800,000,000 in 2022

The Finance Weekly

A study by the University of Baltimore and Excel-based FP&A company, , DataRails , lays out the full economic costs of businesses sticking with manually prepared financial reports. Breaking down the Math. The scope of manual work is also quite large and covers categories such as budgets, month-end closes, and forecasts.

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The Greatest Missed Opportunity of Our Lifetimes

Barry Ritholtz

As the Peterson Institute noted: In June, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that annual net interest costs would total $663 billion in 2023 and almost double over the upcoming decade, soaring from $745 billion in 2024 to $1.4 Note that this is not hindsight bias , but rather discussions we had repeatedly here in the mid-2010s.

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How to Create A Nonprofit Operating Reserve Policy

The Charity CFO

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. What’s the economic health of your community? . How well does your organization budget? And do you hit that budget consistently?