May, 2022

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New INX CFO urges crypto-mainstream compatibility

CFO Dive

The company's launch last year of the the first digital security token to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission serves as a blueprint for other companies that may be looking to raise capital from alternative assets.

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Improve Cashflow with Automation and Real-time Insight

Navigator SAP

The bar has been raised on financial and cash flow management.

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6 Reasons to Hate Budget and Annual Planning Processes

Fpanda Club

Budget and annual planning cycle - these words can make many people tremble. Aimed at determining firm’s short-term objectives and transforming them into operational plan by allocating available resources, annual planning exercise is mostly considered by its stakeholders to be a curse rather than a savior. There are many reasons to hate budget effort.

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Book Review: Asset Allocation

CFA Institute

William Kinlaw, Mark Kritzman, and David Turkington offer advice on a wide range of asset allocation topics, backing up their recommendations with solid quantitative analysis.

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The Growth Architect: How Financial Leaders are Unlocking Potential

Speaker: Ashley Harlan, MBA

What if your role as a fractional CFO went beyond operational support to actively shaping the future of your clients’ businesses? 💼 ✨ In this session, discover how fractional finance professionals can position themselves as architects of growth, guiding their clients toward sustainable success and preparing them for full-time financial leadership.

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Authorized Shares vs. Outstanding Shares

CFO News Room

Authorized Shares vs. Outstanding Shares: An Overview. Understanding stock market terminology allows investors to make appropriate, intelligent decisions. As it relates to company stocks, knowing the difference between authorized shares and outstanding shares is relevant in accurately calculating important ratios that speak to the financial stability of a company.

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Global ESG standard-setting gains speed

CFO Dive

CFOs seeking to provide shareholders with more sustainability data must choose from a patchwork of inconsistent measurement frameworks. Regulators and other standard setters worldwide are now building a consensus behind uniform rules for gauging sustainability.

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What is GMP Manufacturing and is it Required for Life Sciences

Navigator SAP

There’s an element of consumer trust when it comes to the consumption of food or medicine. Usually, consumers cannot detect if a drug they’ve purchased has been manufactured correctly, or if it contains what has been advertised. Without some form of government oversight, this can become a problem. With that in mind, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) rules for businesses in the food manufacturing and life sciences industries that help en

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Is My Nonprofit Ready For Federal Grant Funding?

The Charity CFO

According to The Nonprofit Times, almost 80% of all nonprofit revenue comes from the US government in the form of federal grant funding or fees for services. Those numbers may be skewed by some outliers, like education, but, regardless, there is still a lot of federal money up for grabs. If you’re like most organizations, you would love to get some of that funding to put toward your mission.

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Tell Me a Story: Aswath Damodaran on Valuing Young Companies

CFA Institute

"You don't have to be right to make money [valuing companies]," Aswath Damodaran says. "You just have to be less wrong than everybody else.”.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!

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How Financial Consolidation Can Help Your Business Portfolio

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With the advent of automation, you’d think all companies would transition to a cloud accounting solution. However, you would be surprised to learn how many companies are still working with QuickBooks and Excel spreadsheets and have a portfolio comprised of many different businesses that make it nearly impossible to determine the health of each organization, let alone the overall health of the company.

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SEC Sues Vale SA

Corporate Finance

In January 2019, the Brumadinho dam in Brazil collapsed, sending a mudflow that killed 270 people. The dam was built by Vale SA to hold tailings from a copper mine. Now, the SEC is suing Vale SA , stating that the company made false claims about the safety of the dam, obtained fraudulent stability certificates, and regularly misled investors through its ESG statements.

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SEC enforcement attorney predicts 'a lot more fraud' in crypto markets

CFO Dive

The SEC will turn to litigation if needed to achieve “clarity” as it fights abuses in cryptocurrency markets, according to an attorney in the agency’s Enforcement Division.

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What is a GMP-Compliant Facility?

Navigator SAP

Sometimes a slight manufacturing variance is acceptable. But sometimes it is not.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Financial Oversight Guidelines for Nonprofit Boards

The Charity CFO

Financial oversight is one of the primary roles of your nonprofit board of directors. . Every nonprofit is required to have a board of directors. According to the National Council of Nonprofits , the board has a responsibility to “steer the organization towards a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management policies.”.

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Building a CAPM That Works: What It Means for Today’s Markets

CFA Institute

The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a marvel of economic scholarship. The problem is that it doesn’t always work in practice. So, we fixed it.

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Grow Your Restaurant Chain With The Right Accounting Solution

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Owning a restaurant chain or several restaurant franchises can be challenging when it comes to accounting and being able to consolidate all your reporting and records. It is hard to make informed, strategic decisions regarding growth when you can’t get a complete picture of what’s happening within each restaurant entity and across all of your chains.

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Rivian Lockup To Expire

Corporate Finance

Electric car company Rivian went public on November 9, 2021, which means its lockup, scheduled for 180 days after the IPO, is scheduled to expire next week. A lockup prohibits early investors and corporate insiders from trading the company's stock prior to the lockup expiration. In this case, Ford and Amazon are two early investors with large stakes in Rivian, but nether has indicated whether it will sell Rivian shares.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Cloud adopters hobbled by 'on-premises computing' mindset: McKinsey

CFO Dive

Making six “persistent and pernicious mistakes,” many companies waste money and fail to derive the full value from their move to cloud computing.

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Becoming IPO Ready as a Life Sciences Business

Navigator SAP

Now is a good moment for enterprising life sciences startups eying a future initial public offering. “Covid really brought some perspective on what the life sciences market can do,” noted Gregg Beloff in a recent capital markets webinar , managing director at life sciences financial advisory, Danforth Advisors. “Life sciences saved the world.” The recent performance of life sciences firms in warding off the worst effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has opened the eyes of some investors, according t

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3 Tips for Successful Nonprofit Board Development

The Charity CFO

As a nonprofit Executive Director, the amount of time you invest with your board of directors can vary wildly depending on your organizational culture and the time of year. But make no mistake: Nonprofit board development is critical to your success. And it’s becoming increasingly important to your funders too. . Foundations want to know that your board is doing its job and doing it well.

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Lessons in Behavioral Bias: The COVID-19 Equity Markets

CFA Institute

The pandemic-era stock markets have been a showcase of behavioral biases in action.

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Avoiding Lease Accounting Pitfalls in 2025: Lessons Learned from Spreadsheet Errors

Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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Asked And Answered– 10 Questions Every CFO Should Be Asking Their Controller

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In the world of the CFO, there is one constant amid all the changes. The CFO must always be ready to lead and manage a successful finance team. In order to be successful, the CFO needs to collaborate closely with the Controller to define and implement financial strategies that can be supported through financial operations. Learn the ten questions you should be asking your Controller to establish best practices and project and plan for the future growth of your organization.

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How to Build an FP&A Function

Embark With Us

If the last few years have taught us anything, it's to expect the unexpected. Up is down, left is right, toilet paper and used cars are the new Pokémon cards and PS5s – nothing makes sense anymore. And to state the obvious, such upheaval and uncertainty don't make life easier for a company's decision-makers.

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Companies need to align efforts at disclosure, cybersecurity: SEC attorney

CFO Dive

The SEC aims to protect investors from cyber-related risks by cracking down on companies that release misleading disclosures about cyberattacks, according to the top attorney in the agency’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit.

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CDMO Implements an ERP System That Supports Process Automation & Accelerates Growth - Contract Pharma

Navigator SAP

Originally Posted on ContractPharma on April 26th, 2022 | Read the full story here.

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Back to Basics with Reconciliations

Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.