June, 2022

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3 ways CFOs can help tackle supply chain disruptions

CFO Dive

CFOs can help companies relieve immediate supply chain pressures, as well as create long-term value.

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Why Move to Cloud-Based ERP Solutions?

Navigator SAP

As you run your business, you’ll need to find a simple and effective way to consolidate and manage data across your enterprise. Fortunately, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system like SAP Business One can be the perfect solution for you. But before you choose SAP for small business management, you need to answer this question: why move to a cloud-based ERP solution?

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Inventory Spikes

Corporate Finance

During 2021, much of the talk concerning inventory surrounded shortages due to a variety of factors. In response, many companies increased production and orders to combat supply chain disruptions and increased consumer demand coming out of COVID-19 lockdowns. Now, it appears that companies have overshot demand as inventories have surged. For example, inventories for global manufacturing companies reached a record $1.87 trillion.

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How Sharp Is the Sharpe Ratio? An Analysis of Global Stock Indices

CFA Institute

To test the Sharpe Ratio’s effectiveness, we constructed monthly return distributions for global stock market indices to see if any had too much skewness.

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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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The New Competitive Edge-Real-Time Accounting

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We have all heard the expression “Time is Money,” which has never been more true for businesses than now. The ability to make quick decisions and be agile in the market these days is critical. Can you get real-time data from your accounting system? Is that data accurate and up to the minute? If you are still getting your data from spreadsheets, it’s time to move to cloud computing.

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Icahn sues, questions 'basic integrity' of trillion-dollar CMBS market

CFO Dive

The suit comes as the pandemic accelerated changes in shopping and work habits that drive how retail and offices are used and valued, leaving financial executives to grapple with rising uncertainty around how to assess commercial real estate holdings.

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Why SAP ERP Makes Sense for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Navigator SAP

Legacy software systems no longer make sense for life sciences businesses, especially those in Pharmaceutical manufacturing. The problem is that complexity, regulation, and competition have changed how pharmaceutical and life sciences firms must do business. Today, life sciences firms need the power and features of industry-standard enterprise resource planning software such as SAP Business ByDesign.

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Bad Luck Investing

Corporate Finance

Hopefully you realize that the best time to invest is when stock prices are low and the worst time is when prices are high. But patience is a virtue and can have rewards. A recent article introduces Betty Badluck, who just happened to invest at the stock market tops during the past 35 years. So what happened to Betty? As you will see, while the returns were not fantastic, over time, the stock market has historically rebounded and she still has three times her investment in real terms.

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The Next 75 Years: Will Generalists or Specialists Prevail?

CFA Institute

To generalize or specialize? Seventy-five years after CFA Institute was established, how should investment professionals and aspiring investment professionals approach the choice?

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

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, 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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Build Your Business With Financial Consolidation

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Build your business better and grow smarter with financial consolidation. It isn’t easy keeping track of the financial performance of each branch, franchise, or entity within your organization. The more your company grows, the more complex your financial reporting becomes. Consolidation makes it easy and helps you build and scale your business smartly.

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Innovators Innovate: Meet Embark's Game-Changing Compensation Model

Embark With Us

We're not trying to reinvent the advisory space at Embark. Our goal is to disrupt it, rattle some cages, and build our own version of it, one that ensures our operations, client service, culture, and people are always pulling in the same direction.

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Tips for CFOs advancing ESG: Gartner

CFO Dive

Finance chiefs facing increased pressure to implement sustainable initiatives can take several steps to make sure the programs succeed and drive business value.

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Software Validation: What Life Sciences Businesses Need to Know

Navigator SAP

Strict process control is fundamental for life sciences businesses. Not only is it important for accurate manufacture of drugs and devices that can make the difference between life and death, it also is mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and similar regulatory bodies in other countries. The manufacture and distribution of food and drugs are heavily regulated as a public health measure.

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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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The difference between a CFO and a Controller

The CFO Centre

If you’ve ever looked through a storage box holding clothes you wore as a child, you may have wondered, “How did I ever fit into something that small?” Your company may be in the same situation. The equipment, personnel, and premises that fitted well when the company was starting out, may be constraining its growth […]. The post The difference between a CFO and a Controller appeared first on CFO Center US.

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The Equity Advantage: Reinvestment of Earnings

CFA Institute

Equities can compound in value in a way that investments in bonds, real estate, and other asset classes cannot.

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How Complex Are Your Business Finances?

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No two businesses are exactly alike. Every business has unique financial needs. Suppose your company finances are complicated and include multiple entities or locations. In that case, you may be looking for more powerful real-time accounting solutions to provide you with a better view of your entire operation and help with things like taxation, HR, multiple currencies, and more.

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Proposed SEC SPAC Rules: What You Need to Know

Embark With Us

Not so long ago, SPACs were fully-loaded locomotives barrelling down the IPO track at full speed. But things change, and SPAC exuberance is more tempered these days, a trend that a recent SEC rules proposal might reinforce further.

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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.

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Dallas CFO resigns as city leaders mull removing city manager

CFO Dive

Elizabeth Reich, who has served as CFO for the city of Dallas for five years, issued her resignation in a letter to City Manager T.C. Broadnax. City officials are set to convene to discuss Broadnax’s job performance Wednesday.

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How Do I Validate Our ERP System?

Navigator SAP

ERP validation is a really simple idea: Does the system perform as specified? The question of validation is less about software functionality and largely about configuration. If a business selects an industry-standard enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for its backend systems, the functionality will exist for almost any company process. Having the foundation for meeting the process needs of a business and correctly configuring the system for meeting those needs is not the same thing, ho

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What Are APIs and Why Are They Important to the Banking Industry?

FISPAN

Financial Application Programming Interfaces (Financial APIs) are the key to securely and efficiently exchanging consumer-permissioned data and are a catalyst for new innovations, revenue opportunities and integrations in the financial services industry.

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[Podcast] Building Public Support with Strategic Communication Campaigns with Houda Elyazgi

The Charity CFO

How intentional is your nonprofit with your communication plans? Is there a strategy behind the image your organization is presenting to the world? Houda Elyazgi joins A Modern Nonprofit to talk about building integrated and strategic communication campaigns to help build momentum and get public support for your most important initiatives. Houda Elyazgi is the Chief Client Officer at Saxum, an integrated digital agency obsessed for good.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Benefits Of A Cloud-Based Accounting Solution

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Cloud-based Accounting Solutions deliver the deepest and broadest accounting capabilities across the board, from payroll and HR to inventory tracking, tax filings, and currency conversions across multiple industries, designed to scale your organization and accelerate your business success. What are we talking about when talking about cloud-based accounting and computing ?

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Implementing a Rolling Forecast: A How-To from Embark

Embark With Us

The best things in life – and business – are worth a little elbow grease. Take the rolling forecast, for example. Lending agility, foresight, and flexibility to leaders and their organizations, the rolling forecast is an operational GPS unit that can lead your company through even the roughest, most uncertain economic terrain. That is, if you implement and maintain it correctly.

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FASB drops four-year project changing goodwill accounting

CFO Dive

The U.S. accounting standard-setter shelved a proposal recasting how companies account for an estimated $3.6 trillion in goodwill on their balance sheets.

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4 Reasons Why Enterprise Resource Planning is Critically Important

Navigator SAP

There’s a reason why 96 percent of the top 20 percent of businesses rely on enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, according to Aberdeen research. ERP is at the center of the modern digital business, the nerve-center that allows an organization to monitor, automate and manage operations end-to-end unlike what came before. Whether you are a startup or a business that has not yet embraced digital transformation, there are dozens of reasons why you should consider ERP.

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Solve Your Firm's Automation Complexities Once and For All

Speaker: Mark Stovel

When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.