Global Finance
JUNE 6, 2024
Fintech is fueling a boom in innovation, offering CFOs an array of new ways to access capital. For years, alternative financing models have been changing the way companies access cash. Now, fintech is offering innovations, from subscription and fee-based online lending marketplaces to blockchain, that are changing the alternative financing landscape itself.
CFO Dive
JUNE 27, 2024
With summer kicking into high gear, it’s a good time to add a little finance-inspired fun — yes sometimes we all need a reminder money can be fun — to your next gathering.
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CFO Share
JUNE 27, 2024
How a CFO Ensures Compliance in Financial Reporting Reliable financial statements are crucial for business management, but ensuring compliance may feel like a luxury in the resource-constrained world of small business. How can a small team hope to achieve the quality of a public company? Yet missteps in compliance can lead to severe consequences, including bad decisions, financial penalties, and a loss of credibility amongst your investors.
Navigator SAP
JUNE 27, 2024
The Green Wave and ERP In the early 2010s, businesses began to embrace the green wave with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles, marking the start of the Green ERP sustainability movement. This shift was driven by growing awareness of environmental issues, the rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR), new regulations, and the realization that ESG is good for business.
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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Barry Ritholtz
JUNE 27, 2024
I’ve been observing how radically unusual various sentiment readings have been for a few years now. It made little sense to me that the post-pandemic era saw sentiment levels far below major dislocations such as the ‘87 crash, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Dotcom implosion, or the 08-09 great financial crisis. We have tried to identify the causal factors by considering social media , increases in partisanship , ignorance, even trolling of pollsters.
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CFO Selections
JUNE 3, 2024
Originally published: 8/14/17 Updated: 5/24/24 Preparation and expert guidance are key for successful middle-market business acquisitions, sales, and mergers. In this comprehensive guide to buying and selling businesses, our expert CFOs provide all the finance and accounting information you need when entering into a transaction. It covers: Transaction structures Buyer analyses and considerations Buy-side and sell-side finance/accounting transaction support Buyer-side and seller-side due diligenc
CFO Thought Leader
JUNE 3, 2024
In the early years of Scott Henderson’s career, the dotcom bubble burst, leaving the tech industry in turmoil and many young professionals uncertain about their futures. Despite this chaotic climate, Henderson decided to take a calculated risk by joining another dotcom venture. This time, the company was a modest enterprise with 300 employees and $25 million in revenue.
Nerd's Eye View
JUNE 17, 2024
Online reviews are commonly given and used by consumers across many industries, from finding a good restaurant in a new town to reviewing a lawn care service provider. Nonetheless, fewer than 10% of SEC-registered investment advisers report using them, even though the SEC’s updated investment adviser marketing rule allows financial advisors to proactively encourage testimonials (from clients), use endorsements (from non-clients), and highlight their own ratings on various third-party revie
Lime Light
JUNE 28, 2024
Financial forecasting software is making it so that the CFOs of today can accurately project out the financial realities of tomorrow (and tomorrow’s tomorrow). Taking advantage of the best financial forecasting software in today’s market is critical to establishing a strong, data-backed financial future for your organization.
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.
FISPAN
JUNE 3, 2024
FISPAN’s Founder and CEO, Lisa Shields , attended the Payments Canada Summit 2024 in Toronto. Lisa spoke on an all-female panel of industry leaders to discuss ‘Uplifting the Canadian Fintech Ecosystem.’ She shared the stage with Shirley Hsu, VP of Payments at FreshBooks , Jen Rodrigues, Head of Open Banking at TD Bank , and Layial El-Hadi, Executive Director at Fintech Cadence.
CFO Dive
JUNE 21, 2024
If executives engage in the big issues of today without acknowledging there can be a diverse set of explanations, they risk losing stakeholder trust, PwC’s Wes Bricker writes.
Navigator SAP
JUNE 7, 2024
One of the advantages of using the SAP Business ByDesign ERP solution is that most of what a business needs for a complete backend business system solution comes included with Business ByDesign right out of the box. Where additional functionality is needed, Business ByDesign integration points and extensions can help. SAP Business ByDesign is built on a modular framework.
Barry Ritholtz
JUNE 9, 2024
@TBPInvictus here. About a decade or so ago, the city of Seattle undertook to raise its minimum wage, over time, to $15/hour. (Massive credit to my friend Nick Hanauer for his efforts to make that happen.) What followed in the immediate aftermath of both the announcement and implementation was nothing less than a apocalyptic, collective head explosion on the right about the devastating effects the increase would have, particularly in the food services sector: However, there’s little doubt that t
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.
Global Finance
JUNE 4, 2024
As outsourcing to freelancers spreads, lawmakers and regulators around the world are scrambling to keep pace. Accordingly, companies working the new trend into their business model must be wary of running afoul of a fast-changing legal and regulatory landscape. Due diligence can be especially tricky for firms that use freelancers located in multiple jurisdictions—even within countries, such as the US, that have federal systems.
CFO News
JUNE 2, 2024
Amarjit Chopra, former President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), provides insight into India's electoral bond scheme, emphasizing the Election Commission's critical role. He also reflects on the Supreme Court's involvement, suggesting that instead of deeming electoral bonds illegal, modifications could have been proposed prospectively to address scheme deficiencies.
CFO Share
JUNE 18, 2024
As your business grows and success becomes more tangible, the complexities of managing your finances increase as well. At this stage, it’s crucial to ensure that your bookkeeping processes are not just keeping up, but actively supporting your business’s scalability (simultaneously avoiding stress and headaches for you.) Whether you’re working with a bookkeeper or virtual bookkeeping services , adopting advanced techniques can significantly improve your financial management.
CFO Dive
JUNE 26, 2024
Damage from a sweeping tariff would spread beyond the U.S., “threatening key relationships with allies and inviting a global trade war,” AAF said.
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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.
Navigator SAP
JUNE 14, 2024
One of the advantages of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is the scalability of the ERP solution. Functionality can be turned on or off and extended depending on the needs of the business, and seat licenses can expand (or be reconfigured) depending on the company’s needs. This inherent ability to expand and reconfigure the ERP solution is where FUE allocation comes into play.
Barry Ritholtz
JUNE 17, 2024
A quick break from book authorship to share a fascinating set of data and charts, via Sam Ro. In his weekly missive, Sam points to some amazing charts from Global Financial Data. They are based on historical data that looks at 200 Years of Market Concentration. You might be surprised at the findings. As the chart above shows, there are long periods of market concentration.
Global Finance
JUNE 11, 2024
Lori Schwartz, Global Head of Liquidity & Account Solutions and Digital & Design at J.P. Morgan Payments, discusses fostering innovation within the corporate treasury with Global Finance. GF : How has artificial intelligence affected your organization’s performance in the past year? Lori Schwartz : We are looking at ways to harness the power of such technology to simplify and make our internal processes more efficient.
Future CFO
JUNE 12, 2024
On 31 July 2023, the European Union (EU) adopted the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), requiring EU and non-EU companies with activities in the EU to file annual sustainability reports alongside their financial statements. These reports must be prepared in line with European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). That ESG reporting has moved from a voluntary exercise to mandatory should not come as a surprise.
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
CFO Share
JUNE 6, 2024
The Role of a CFO in Financial Risk Management Managing financial risks is crucial to ensuring long-term business success. However, small business entrepreneurs are particularly ill-suited for risk management: optimistic, energetic, and abstract. This is where a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) becomes indispensable: disciplined, deliberative, and concrete.
CFO Dive
JUNE 18, 2024
Microsoft, Google, Apple, Tesla and TikTok owner ByteDance are among more than 300 tech companies that have announced job cuts since January.
Navigator SAP
JUNE 21, 2024
Businesses plan for the future, but the future rarely looks like what was expected. Adjusting as plans change requires nimbleness and business agility. But it also requires backend ERP technology that can evolve with the business.
Barry Ritholtz
JUNE 13, 2024
@TBPInvictus here A few days ago, Barry and I detailed how unscrupulous bad actors had taken Not Seasonally Adjusted data to falsely claim that California’s new $20/hour minimum wage had cost the state almost 10,000 quick-serve restaurant (QSR) jobs. I wrote: It appears to me that the Journal got that number from BLS. However, BLS only offers the series without seasonal adjustment; this makes a very meaningful difference.
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.
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