CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. When you’re young, focus on deeply understanding the core accounting principles, financial reporting, and regulatory compliance. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. In May of 2016, the FBI reported that ransomware would top $1 billion that year — they estimated $1.6 Back here in the U.S. —

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Or how do we work around a concentrated stock position, right? So, compliance requires us to keep our financial-planning practice and our estate-planning practice separate. So, it’s still separate and compliance does not allow us to cover estate-planning fees. This is part of the advisory firm? Anh: Right.

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Leverage Planning Concentration Tax Planning 130

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. It’s, it’s double concentrated risk. So any compliance people listening, I’m just spitballing here.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, we pivoted to more of a service team.

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Restructuring Planning Marketing Accounting 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And that was very hard to do because when you’re running a Fortune 100 company, the compliance is to the lowest common denominator. And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” Matthew: Exactly.

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Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. And ev all the sort of compliance, client service, legal, kind of, everything was done sort of on the side by investment people. So I was at Harvard.

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Valuation Investments Finance Math 52