PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

“There’s the old-school stereotypical idea of the accountant — which I’ve never agreed with — where they’re in the back office, head down, crunching numbers,” Basil said. But analysts warn that accountants and corporate finance professionals cannot simply go with the status quo.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

There are three new features — Intelligent Collections, Intelligent Vendor Management and Intelligent Planning — which are intended to remove time-wasting steps and friction and improve cash flow for corporate finance teams, the release stated.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A research firm has discovered that the number of material accounting mistakes made by U.S. For many, the mistakes were discovered when corporate finance teams were changing accounting paperwork to comply with the new U.S. public companies has gone up this year. tax law and revenue accounting rules.

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Accountancy Today

JANUARY 10, 2022

According to the firm, a record number of CFOs say increasing capital investment is a strong priority for their business in the year ahead, with the majority expecting greater investment in digital technology and workforce skills over the next three years.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2025

As the number of potential applications of AI proliferated, thus increasing the market for AI products and services, another part of the story was also being put into play. Since I work in valuation and corporate finance, not a day goes by without someone contacting me about a new AI product or service in the space.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In the first five posts, I have looked at the macro numbers that drive global markets, from interest rates to risk premiums, but it is not my preferred habitat. A few years ago, I wrote a paper for practitioners on the cost of capital , where I described the cost of capital as the Swiss Army knife of finance, because of its many uses.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2023

 This week, we speak with Aswath Damodaran, who holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education at New York University’s Stern School of Business. A nine-time “Professor of the Year” winner at NYU, Damodaran teaches classes in corporate finance and valuation to MBA students. He received his MBA and Ph.D.

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Global Finance

MARCH 2, 2025

If we think about it, a managerif facing pressure to beat an analyst forecast, or beat last years earnings, or wanting a particular bonushas enough flexibility in the accounting rules to manage those numbers while staying within the rules. You manage your numbers. So, how are we going to track the slippery slope? Horton: Heres one.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

While these narratives are important for firms to explain complex ideas that may not be entirely understood solely through accounting numbers, Wang noted they can promote a lack of transparency, too. ” Meanwhile, previous research from Audit Analytics has also revealed that the number of accounting errors among the U.S.’s

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In corporate finance, the predictions are largely about the adoption of the most cutting-edge technologies, from artificial intelligence (AI) to blockchain. “The results show that the number of conversations including this phrase has been growing rapidly, with a compound quarterly growth rate of 15.7

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

During my teaching lifetime, I have taught a wide swath of classes, ranging from banking to equity instruments, but in the last twenty years, my focus has been on three classes, c orporate finance, valuation and investment philosophies , with the last one taught only online.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

From strategic leadership lessons to tips for aspiring CFOs, join us as we delve into the story of a finance professional who is not only driven by numbers but also by a passion for growth, mentoring, and global expansion. Coffee, Emails, WhatsApp What sparked your interest in finance?

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this week that its head of international corporate finance will be departing the agency. According to an SEC announcement , Chief of the Office of International Corporate Finance Paul Dudek, in the agency’s Division of Corporation Finance, will leave today (Friday, June 30).

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Global Finance

JANUARY 2, 2025

We provide a very user-friendly tool where you just insert the numbers from the target and from the buyer, and you get a score indicating the likelihood of success. Nowadays a growing number of non-tech companies are buying tech startups, trying to modernize their business model.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. The class starts with a question of what the end game should be for a business (profitability, value, social good?)

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

Data from Wealth-X ‘s World Ultra Wealth Report 2018 found that the number of ultra high-net-worth individuals increased by nearly 13 percent in 2017, with combined wealth jumping more than 16 percent to a combined $31.5

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Global Finance

AUGUST 1, 2024

Corporate finance experts say going public is cool this summer; that’s not the case for a billionaire hedge fund manager’s overhyped IPO. Therefore, the decline in IPO numbers is more indicative of APAC’s underperformance rather than the below-average performance of other regions,” Chan adds.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Demand for corporate finance helped propel China’s banks to new lending records in November, according to news from Reuters on Monday (Dec. That figure surpassed analysts’ expectations, especially considering China’s efforts to reduce risk tied to a surge in corporate debt. Chinese banks provided $169.27 billion yuan.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

The numbers are on the up this week! Rising corporate finance metrics don’t always mean good news. Find out which figures led to good growth — like digital corporate payments increases or a rise in SME hedging practices — and which signal bad news for corporate FinServ. But don’t let that fool you.

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Accountancy Today

DECEMBER 16, 2021

During the six-months, the total number of formal company insolvencies (including administrations) was 8,409, which is a 43% increase on the prior period (H1 2021: 5,873). The corporate finance market is highly active as capital continues to be deployed. Geoff Rowley, CEO, said: “The markets we operate in have been mixed.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Another important aspect to consider within the discussed topic is how exactly FP&A is different from other finance disciplines, namely accounting, corporate finance and financial control.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Steve Troy, CEO of AeroFund Financial, says that’s a trend permeating many components of corporate finance today: Businesses don’t just need better tools – they need, in some cases, an entirely new way to manage finances. “Credit card numbers are not very secure.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

Mean reversion : I am not a knee-jerk believer in mean reversion, but the tendency for numbers to move back towards averages is a strong one. Counter made-up numbers : It remains true that people (analysts, market experts, politicians) often make assertions based upon either incomplete or flawed data, or no data at all.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. While flashy corporate FinTech is exciting, innovation efforts have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. The class starts with a question of what the end game should be for a business (profitability, value, social good?)

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Driven by rising demand, corporates are seeking specialized financial expertise without committing to full-time hires. Growing numbers of experienced chief financial officers are abandoning the corporate grind to take freelance roles for multiple clients—whether in parallel or on a serial basis.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 5, 2025

The Dysfunctional Version In practice, though, there is no other aspect of corporate finance that is more dysfunctional than the cash return or dividend decision, partly because the latter (dividends) has acquired characteristics that get in the way of adopting a rational policy.

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Global Finance

JULY 29, 2024

Bokhari’s observations, they agreed, highlight a serious issue in the corporate finance world: making numbers cool again. Over 50% of the respondents confessed that they are not just crunching numbers but also doing succession planning and ramping up their mentoring efforts.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 15, 2021

During my teaching lifetime, I have taught a wide swath of classes, ranging from banking to equity instruments, but in the last twenty years, my focus has been on three classes, c orporate finance, valuation and investment philosophies , with the last one taught only online. The place to start is with accounting.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

The enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) system has been a staple of corporate finance operations for years, acting as a central repository of data and a hub to initiate a range of processes, from accounting to procurement. But the ERP of today doesn’t look like it used to.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

New data from insolvency firm Begbies Traynor may set off alarm bells: The number of U.K. A report released from the company this week found a 25 percent year-over-year increase in the number of companies categorized as being in significant financial distress in Q2, the largest yearly increase the firm has seen in three years, it said.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The internal rate of return (IRR) is a core component of capital budgeting and corporate finance. number of individual cash flows. number of individual cash flows. Or to put it more simply: What discount rate would cause the net present value (NPV) of a project to be $0? net after-tax cash inflow-outflows during.

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Castle Corporate Finance

JULY 17, 2024

Alex is a senior manager at Castle Corporate Finance. He joined from Crowe in January 2021 as an experienced corporate financier, where he principally focussed on capital market and financial due diligence assignments. What drew you to towards a career in corporate finance? What are your aspirations for the future?

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Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

The competition numbered as one of at least 19 major international events featuring at least 14 different sports this year in four countries: United Arab Emirates (UAE: notably, Abu Dhabi and Dubai), Bahrain, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

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Fox Corporate Finance

DECEMBER 22, 2021

An increasing number of drugs of European origin have been in-licensed to Chinese biotechnology companies. Over the last five years, a steady increase in the number of yearly in-licensed assets from Europe can be observed.

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Fox Corporate Finance

AUGUST 11, 2022

The significant growth of transaction volumes and the number of deals closed from 2017 to 2021 confirms the increasing importance of longevity in the US and Europe. For both markets, the number of deals almost.

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Fox Corporate Finance

AUGUST 11, 2022

The significant growth of transaction volumes and the number of deals closed from 2017 to 2021 confirms the increasing importance of longevity in the US and Europe. For both markets, the number of deals almost.

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