CFO Talks

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I believed in the accounting route owing to my passion for numbers, coupled with my personality, and interest in working with people in general. Numbers can be unpacked to tell a story. Investing in technology (smart accounting and data analysis systems, etc.), Share your favorite leadership lesson.

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Centage

MAY 3, 2022

This transforms data into useful information that helps to accelerate business decisions. Greater Confidence in Your Plan, Your Numbers, Your Team and Your Future Accurate financial statements are crucial to the long-term success of any business.

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Centage

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Forecasting balance sheet and cash flow enables your leadership team to make the most informed decisions and help your organization “future proof” itself to survive as new market variables will inevitably occur. Working with accurate, complete data is incredibly important. But don’t rely only on spreadsheets alone to get the job done.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Familiar with data analysis and armed with powerful tools, FP&A teams start to play more visible roles in the organizations providing their leaders with actionable insights and recommendations on the best ways to achieve company’s objectives, thus, having the direct impact on their company’s results and success.

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Centage

JUNE 7, 2022

In the age of COVID, strong financial leadership is more important than ever. Marry Finance With Strategy It’s not enough to provide accurate financial data. Master the Art of Analytics Of course, input is always better received when there’s data behind it.

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CFO Leadership

MAY 31, 2023

Data analysis and leadership were ranked by CFOs as the most important skills for new team members, outpacing more traditional competencies like accounting and project management. Inflation moved down to the third-ranked impact, tied with the US regulatory environment at 13%. That’s up nearly ten percentage points last quarter.

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Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If your board asked you to run new numbers based on fresh assumptions, it took you days or weeks to create a new set of reports. If you are relying on disparate pieces of data from multiple systems, the latter answer is “no” — or not without a great deal of difficulty.

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Centage

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

How much can a CEO rely on the numbers in the forecast? Business leadership wants timely and accurate updates from the FP&A team, which is a tall order for teams that rely on spreadsheets to project their cash flow and P&L statements. The answer lies in its level of granularity. The more granular, the more confidence.

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Future CFO

APRIL 3, 2023

Using machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for forecasting and predictive analysis is the next frontier for companies, where efficiency gains from RPA can help create more time for higher-value work such as AI-enabled data analysis and forecasting.

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Jedox Finance

JANUARY 23, 2020

EPM bridges the gap between these different planning silos and supports planning, analysis and reporting of business results, KPIs and more. Collection of organization-wide financial and non-financial data. Analysis and calculation of major KPIs. We can look at this as a process: . Target setting for select business drivers.

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VCFO

JULY 8, 2022

While each workplan analysis is performed independently, the team looks at the overlapping functions, processes, and deliverables to deliver a comprehensive assessment with cross-departmental recommendations. The process itself is comprised of three steps: data collection, data analysis and visualization, and findings review.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A recent whitepaper published by the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) at the National University of Singapore sheds light on the growing demand for ESG data and the widespread use of aggregate ESG scores from a growing number of data providers.

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Future CFO

MARCH 21, 2022

An essential skill for every finance professional is the ability to tell the story behind the numbers, according to Keith Chan , chief financial and technology officer at McDonald’s Hong Kong. Visualisation of big data enables ‘speed-to-insights’ of management as people prefer visuals to hard numbers. Keith Chan.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 27, 2023

Businesses face a tremendous number of uncertainties. He added that this expands the scope of the CFOs’ remit, but it also means CFOs need to expand their data sources. "I I think what’s important is to find out what data is out there to augment your data analysis," Kesuma added.

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CFO Thought Leader

MAY 14, 2023

Says Lester: “We all perhaps have heard the advice ‘Connect yourself to numbers, and you will always have a job.’ Asking the right questions is key to effective leadership. View finance as a teaching part of the organization and empower others to be inquisitive about the data.”

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CFO Talks

OCTOBER 21, 2022

According to data assembled by the World Bank, Italy had the sixth-highest number of international tourist arrivals in 2019. . “There is a different kind of leadership that is required.” . “They’re milking tourism. It’s probably still one of their biggest sources of revenue,” says Hardien.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In recognition of his leadership in managing Brazil’s monetary policy, Campos Neto earned an “A” grade in the magazine’s 2024 Central Banker Report Cards, announced in August. rate for the end of 2024, this number now stands at 6.7%. He also received an “A” in 2023’s report card.

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The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some: 41% of finance teams have Issues Identifying and correcting errors, 31% have problems finding and gathering necessary data, 24% have challenging questions on sources of data, 23% face challenges tracking multiple Excel versions, 20% have a bugbear of broken formulas, 19% are far from confident presenting this data to non-finance leadership.

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Data Analysis Financial Modeling 40

Planful

DECEMBER 28, 2016

They described the following as some of the biggest challenges corporations have to face when approaching year-end close : Managing increasing volumes and complexity of data. Accomodating shifts in business strategy – e.g., M&As or leadership changes that impact data models and KPIs. Responding to regulatory changes.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 21, 2021

Intraco’s Yeo added that having data in real-time matters in the current market. When Kyriba’s Kim queried, what was preventing real-time data analysis, the participant’s overwhelming answer was using Excel spreadsheets. This is where data integrity, as well as the analytics capability of digitization, actually stands out.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2018

The premise put forth by Gordon Moore states that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated chips double every year. And then you do need that support — you need that business leadership that understands … your opportunity — [coupled with] finite resources [and] infinite time, with rewards that outweigh risk.”.

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Planful

JANUARY 11, 2022

Consider how the State of Pennsylvania overpaid a school district by half a million dollars because the spreadsheet data supplied by the district inflated enrollment numbers. As data collection expands and an organization scales, this type of throw-more-people-at-it strategy is simply unsustainable.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Profit and Loss Reconciliations 40

Centage

DECEMBER 14, 2023

How finding forecast errors improves your budget Regularly identifying and analyzing the forecast errors in your budget is not just about correcting those numbers — it’s a strategic move toward long-term financial resilience.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting Budgeting Analyzing Data 40

Future CFO

JUNE 3, 2024

Wood adds that the TCFD recommendations have already formed a mandate in a number of jurisdictions, leading many companies to align their measures accordingly. Cybersecurity threats pose significant financial and reputational risks to organisations, exacerbated by the growing data requirements for reporting," Wood notes.

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CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 1, 2023

Ben [04:12] I don’t I don’t say it was gloomy, but I think it did prevent some people from attending because they had to then that was their number one priority to make sure we can you know payroll function we can send payroll, we can pay our vendors so I think yeah, that that did affect quite a few companies of course.

Sales 52

Sales Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) CFO Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Embark With Us

JANUARY 19, 2022

In fact, we probably buried the lede on this one since, if we're to distill Alteryx into a single catchy tagline, it would be something like "unlock the power of your data. To borrow a metaphor from The Economist , that data, genuine BI, is "the oil of the digital era." Financial Reporting.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

In 2022, that number, for NVIDIA, was 0.65, indicating that this is definitely not a capital-light business and that NVIDIA has invested heavily to get to where it is today, as a company. This lead time has given NVIDIA not just market leadership, but revenues and profits already.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 59

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 5, 2024

So I started doing these big data analysis pieces and like harvesting data from the various apps I would use that 00:05:25 [Speaker Changed] You could do just not specific stocks. To a number of people. 00:17:14 [Speaker Changed] So you tackle a number of weighty topics in the book. Crazy, crazy numbers.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

On a number of concessions McCarthy has made or is considering making to his conservative critics, he risks touching off a revolt from other ideological camps — especially moderate and Biden-district Republicans. If this fails, it can only be because you did not increase the number of infections enough! —

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

On Monday, the White House announced that it will let the Covid-related public health emergency declarations expire on May 11, 2023… [T]he numbers don’t lie. Anti-vaccine sentiment has exploded on the right, and DeSantis has seized its leadership. ‘I Though CDC may be jiggering the numbers soon.

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