Jedox Finance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Do you remember when a scanner, printer, copier, and fax machine used to all be separate devices? While that wouldn’t make much sense these days, think about revenue planning, data, and processes. Does it make sense to have a complete separation between your company goals, sales reps targets, and compensation models? In this blog post, we’ll look at how you connect the dots between Sales Performance Management and xP&A.

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Corporate Finance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Early critics of the efficient market hypothesis claimed incorrectly that market efficiency meant that a monkey throwing darts at a list of stocks was just as good an investment strategy as any other. Now we have hamsters spinning wheels. Mr Goxx, a hamster, makes cryptocurrency investments by spinning a wheel. Two men in Germany have created a cage in which Mr.

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Embark With Us

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Investors aren’t looking for high-level overviews from your financial reporting. They want you to dig deep and get some accounting dirt underneath your nails. Because the view from 30,000 feet might look nice in headlines, but it doesn’t drive fully informed decision-making for the investing public.

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The SaaS CFO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

What should I include in SaaS cost of goods sold (COGS)? This is a very common question from SaaS founders and finance teams. It’s also an important question and something that you need to get right. The proper coding of SaaS COGS versus operating expenses (OpEx) is important for many reasons. First, we must understand […]. The post What Should Be Included in SaaS COGS appeared first on The SaaS CFO.

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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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CFO Share

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

What is the financial benefit of work from home vs work from office vs hybrid work environments? There are plenty of studies surveying worker satisfaction in different work from home arrangements, but as a fractional CFO , I care less about a squishy metric like “satisfaction” and more about the bottom line. Don’t get me wrong – employee satisfaction definitely affects profits.

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Collectiv

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Designing a strong Power BI Center of Excellence (CoE) is essential for any organization, but creating that foundation doesn’t happen overnight. To develop a reliable single source of truth, your Center of Excellence framework needs to be grounded in four central pillars that support everything your enterprise does with Power BI. These pillars are essential to define and set the standards for how your enterprise uses your data.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There have been 547 IPOs raising US$106.3 billion in Q3 2021 alone, up 87% year-on-year, said EY recently. In addition, a total of 1,635 IPOs have raised US$330.7 billion year-to-date, up 99% year-on-year, the company noted, adding that Q3 2021 saw 18% more deals than the previous third quarter record set in 2007 and 11% higher proceeds than the last record-setting third quarter in 2020, Overall, Q3 totals YTD have already surpassed 2020 by both deal numbers and proceeds, the firm noted.

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Michigan CFO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In the world of manufacturing, where processes run thick and bottlenecks are known to arise, CFO services play a critical role in helping organizations steer towards efficiency, profitability, and longevity. What once was known as a role for managing a company’s finance and accounting has changed into a role that concerns far greater responsibilities with new expectations.

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The Finance Weekly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While other departments have advanced and moved towards more dynamic data presentations, finance departments are somewhat stuck in the past. PowerPoint and Excel continue to be the most commonly used presentation software. FP&A analysts and financial managers must modernize their methods of presenting information to their board members in order to demonstrate their worth.

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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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Embark With Us

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Financial dashboards aren’t just pretty, colorful charts and graphs. They’re far more substantive than visual appeal and high-level insights – by light years. That is, assuming you’re leveraging the right data and tools to build them out.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

When it comes to analytics talent, CFOs often limit the scope of their advanced analytics centre of excellence (ACOE) by relying too heavily on finance staff, said Gartner recently. . CFOs should look at other, sometimes cheaper, talent sources, such as analytic staff from other functions, university hires, or third-party service providers who are more than capable of executing certain elements of the analytics development cycle, the firm advised.

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Michigan CFO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Each time we review a financial statement with our clients, they inevitably turn right to the Profit and Loss Statement (P&L, or Income Statement) and look to the “bottom line”. While this statement is very telling, there is another financial statement that may be a better indicator of how the company is doing. What statement is that? It’s the Statement of Cash Flows.

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CFO Network

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Proper financial analysis for business is essential. Otherwise, you run the risk of encountering a large handful of different complications. In some cases, you may even find yourself facing legal issues. After all, the money at your business is its lifeblood. Not having enough at the right time is a scenario that you want to avoid at all costs. The good news is that it’s not as difficult to understand as you might anticipate.

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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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CFA Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Once sold by major public firms, fossil fuel assets don’t disappear. Neither does the need for relevant, reliable risk disclosure.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) recently announced the establishment of a Sustainable Business Management Global Task Force (IMA.SBM.GTF) to speak on behalf of the management accounting profession, accountants, and finance professionals in business. . This comes as governments, regulators, and standard-setters debate the future of accounting and a range of new corporate reporting requirements ahead of the November 2021 UN Conference of Parties 26 in Glasgow, with major announcement

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Anaplan

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Procurement is sitting on a trove of untapped business value. Bring teams and systems together in a planning platform for a new competitive advantage.

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Essentials of Corporate Finance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Early critics of the efficient market hypothesis claimed incorrectly that market efficiency meant that a monkey throwing darts at a list of stocks was just as good an investment strategy as any other. Now we have hamsters spinning wheels. Mr Goxx, a hamster, makes cryptocurrency investments by spinning a wheel. Two men in Germany have created a cage in which Mr.

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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.

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CFA Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The future of work has already arrived for investment professionals.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Four Asian economies are among the top 15 in Insead’s Global Innovation Index 2021 despite the fact that only a few economies—mostly high income—consistently dominate the ranks of the index. South Korea (The Republic of Korea) joins the top 5 of the GII for the first time in 2021, while four other Asian economies feature in the top 15—Singapore (8), China (12), Japan (13) and Hong Kong, China (14), according to Insead.

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CFO Alliance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The post Financial Processes and Data Fuel Your Growth appeared first on CFO Alliance.

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Essentials of Corporate Finance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Investors have been looking for alternative investments and will be able to invest in a guitar from an alternative metal band. Gibson is using Rally to sell ownership of collectible guitars. The company recently sold 13,000 pieces of a guitar owned by Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash for $5 each. Of course, the company did not cut up the guitar, but sold a fractional share.

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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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CFA Institute

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Actively managed funds can serve plan participants well.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

China's shadow banking assets will shrink further after falling sharply in the first half (H1) of 2021, as the deadline to comply with China's new asset management rules approaches by the end of this year, said Moody’s recently. "Broad shadow banking assets fell by RMB1.34 trillion in H1 2021 to RMB57.8 trillion. This, together with the post-COVID economic rebound, significantly reduced the ratio of shadow banking assets as a share of nominal GDP from 58.3% as of the end of 2020 to 52.9%, an eig

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CFO Alliance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The post The M&A Team for Your Growth Company appeared first on CFO Alliance.

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CFO Leadership

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

WE ARE PROUD TO ALIGN WITH ORACLE NETSUITE AS A NATIONAL SPONSOR OF THE CFO LEADERSHIP COUNCIL. ART WITTMANN, EDITOR, BRAINYARD AT ORACLE NETSUITE PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF FINDINGS FROM THEIR RECENT 2021 SURVEY. As you sit in a strategy meetings, you know that opinions about how to drive company growth will be as varied as the people in the room. Sometimes participants act in ways you expect, but the pandemic and efforts to recover from it have affected opinions in ways you might not expect.

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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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