March, 2023

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CFOs key to shaping digitization efforts: study

CFO Dive

With technology teams overloaded, the discerning CFO’s hand is crucial to shaping company digitization efforts.

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The Key to Financial Success: The Right ERP for Accounting

Navigator SAP

Accounting is one of the most critical functions of any business and choosing the right software to manage it can be a daunting task. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is an integrated system that enables organizations to manage business processes and automate various functions.

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Optimizing Consulting Services With the Best ERP for Consulting Firms

Navigator SAP

Once you have your consulting firm set up, the next big task is to find an innovative system that you can use to streamline your operations and enhance your workflows. Today, the popular choice for most consulting firms is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. With a specialized ERP solution, you can integrate all your business processes and related data so that departments can operate from a centralized and synchronized location.

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Unlocking the ‘right’ combination to digital transformation

CFO Dive

Only 34% of large companies showed signs of being strategic about their technology investments in financial disclosures, according to a recent report from Deloitte.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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Accelerate Research With The Right ERP for Research Organizations

Navigator SAP

With the growing competition in the business world, companies are constantly under pressure to enhance the quality of their products and services while simultaneously improving their competitiveness. This is why so many companies staff internal research departments or work closely with external Research Organizations to develop new and improved products.

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How Life Sciences Businesses Should Prepare Financials for Scaling and Outside Funding

Navigator SAP

Developing a life sciences product and going to market is not easy. There’s the research and development, of course, but there’s also the business-building side.

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IRS issues NFT tax guidance

CFO Dive

The IRS seeks comment on NFTs’ treatment under the newly proposed tax guidance as regulators and lawmakers consider the future of cryptocurrency and digital asset spaces.

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The Reformed Broker

I feel pretty confident in making this call, and I don’t make market calls very often: We have seen the top for 2-year Treasury yields. It’s not going any higher than it’s been because there’s no reason for it to. Financial conditions are now contracting hard due in part to the events of this week but also because monetary policy operates on a lag – and the first Fed Funds hike of the cycle.

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How Much Money Buys Happiness?

Barry Ritholtz

I love the idea of convergence — those rare times when multiple stories about very different issues seem to all land on the same “Grand Truth,” albeit from very different perspectives. Yesterday brought just such a three-part convergence into focus. It’s about money and happiness, which is very much the intersection of where I spend much of my time: Capital Markets , and Behavioral Finance.

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Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Is The Key To Better Spend Management

Speaker: Claire Grosjean

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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FP&A is the sexiest job in finance

Fpanda Club

FP&A is the sexiest job in finance… While this may seem like an overstatement, FP&A positions are becoming incredibly popular and sought-after. Many finance professionals are starting to feel that they are too focused on historical data, reporting, compliance, etc. Moving into FP&A from other fields of finance, such as accounting and audit, has recently become very trendy.

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SVB Deposits Saved, But Is It A Bailout?

Global Finance

The FDIC’s sudden takeover of both Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank casts a shadow, no matter what you call it.

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How to Validate Software for the FDA

Navigator SAP

The life sciences is a heavily regulated industry for obvious reasons: the drugs and devices a life sciences firm manufactures or distributes must be consistently safe and reliable for consumers. To ensure that happens, the FDA regulates life science firms according to regulations specified in 21CFR. Part of that regulation is validation of the software used by life sciences businesses.

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Finance staff digital skills outstrip leadership: study

CFO Dive

As AI and automation continue to advance, the digital skills of finance staffs are outstripping those of senior executives — leading to challenges managing and engaging skilled talent.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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A shock to lending standards

The Reformed Broker

This is it. The only chart you need to concern yourself with now if you’re trying to figure out where the economy is heading. Construction and Industrial (C&I) loans are a $2.8 trillion business (approximately) for banks all over the country. If they roll over, we have a soft landing. If they roll over hard, we have a hard landing. It’s not complicated, the only thing that’s up in the air is the tim.

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The Fed is Breaking Things (and it could get worse)

Barry Ritholtz

Armchair quarterbacking the decisions of the Federal Reserve long ago became a blood sport. With the benefit of hindsight, we all are genius central bankers. I particularly loathe managers who lay all the woes of the world at the feet of the Federal Reserve. For more than a century, America’s central bank has been a key part of the investing environment, and it’s your job as an active manager to incorporate their probable policy decisions into your strategy.

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ChatGPT: The Origins, the Hype, the Opportunity

CFA Institute

For most investment managers, ChatGPT represents the starting whistle in a tech arms race many had hoped to avoid.

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Lamborghini's Best Year Ever, Again: Q&A With CFO Paolo Poma

Global Finance

Are luxury cars untouched by economic slowdown and inflation? The latest results from Italian luxury automaker Lamborghini suggests so. CFO Paolo Poma believes the company can even improve its profitability, despite economic headwinds. Global Finance spoke with Poma—who has been managing director and CFO since 2017—when he recently visited New York.

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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them

Speaker: Dave Sackett

Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.

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How to Purchase ERP for Management Companies

Navigator SAP

It is difficult for a management consulting business to grow and succeed if it’s operating with unreliable data. In this scenario, anyone would have trouble understanding where the business is headed and making important business decisions.

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Business spending outlook ‘deteriorated’: Fed CFO survey

CFO Dive

CFOs were planning to reduce expenditures before turmoil in the banking system threatened to provoke a credit tightening.

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This Week on TRB

The Reformed Broker

And if you haven’t subscribed yet, don’t wait. Check it out below or wherever fine podcasts are played. . The post This Week on TRB appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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Déjà Vu? 2023 is Not 2008

Barry Ritholtz

Depositors heaved a sigh of relief when news broke Sunday that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was going to make whole all of the accounts held at Silicon Valley Bank. Having full access to bank accounts meant those tech start-ups that make up much of SVB’s depositors would be able to make their weekly payrolls. They were the lucky ones: SVB’s equity investors were wiped out and senior bank management was fired.

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Are Robots Replacing You? Keeping Humans in the Loop in Automated Environments

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

As businesses increasingly adopt automation, finance leaders must navigate the delicate balance between technology and human expertise. This webinar explores the critical role of human oversight in accounts payable (AP) automation and how a people-centric approach can drive better financial performance. Join us for an insightful discussion on how integrating human expertise into automated workflows enhances decision-making, reduces fraud risks, strengthens vendor relationships, and accelerates R

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The Active Management Delusion: Respect the Wisdom of the Crowd

CFA Institute

"Neither the Financial Analysts as a whole nor the investment funds as a whole can expect to ‘beat the market,’ because in a significant sense they (or you) are the market.

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VC And Crypto Investors Eye Alternatives After US Bank Failures

Global Finance

The Middle East could prove a profitable oasis.

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Maximizing Efficiency With the Best ERP for Wholesale Distribution

Navigator SAP

Businesses today need objective data on everything in their warehouses to make critical business decisions. One sector that would greatly benefit from clear and coherent data flow is logistics. An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can significantly improve efficiency and is a significant step toward digital transformation.

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Accounting talent crunch persists

CFO Dive

As accountants and CPAs increasingly battle with burnout, the pool of talent for the industry is getting smaller.

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Book of Secrets on the Month-End Close

Based off SkyStem's popular e-Book, the book of secrets to the month-end close will be revealed in this one-hour webinar. Learn leading practices when it comes to building a strong and sustainable month-end close that has room to grow and evolve. Learn about the power of precise estimates, why reconciliations are critical to closing the books, how and when to automate, and how the chart of accounts play into your close process.