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Why agile workforce planning is challenging

Anaplan

Learn about the value of and challenges in agile workforce planning from workforce planning experts across a broad range of industries.

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Myth-Busting: Money Printing Must Create Inflation

CFA Institute

Shouldn't all the recent monetary and fiscal stimulus lead to higher inflation? Maybe not.

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Rolling Forecasts: A Beginner’s Guide to Continuous Performance Management

Jedox Finance

What happens when your business plans don’t turn out as thought? To avoid this situation forecasting helps you to be aware of future developments and trends at an earlier time. In this guide we show you what rolling forecasts are, when they really make sense and how you can implement them successfully into your business.

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Pandemic separates the readiest innovators from the rest

Future CFO

The pandemic separates the readiest innovators from the rest, said BCG recently when releasing its report titled Most Innovative Companies 2021: Overcoming the Innovation Readiness Gap. Pharma companies performed strongly this year, joining technology and software companies that have dominated the rankings in recent years, according to the report. The survey — on which the report is based — also identified strong regional variations in the innovation readiness of companies, with China and the US

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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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How to modernize the finance department: Put people first

Anaplan

Digital transformation has opened the door to powerful new ways finance can assess and understand the business, surface insights and opportunities, enable more informed decisions, and contribute measurable business value. This entails systematic changes to the organization’s operating model. Transformational finance leaders are eager to start streamlining business processes and adding new capabilities to analyze […].

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2021 – Q1 Financial Review

A Fractional CFO

In this quick video, our Founder and CFO, Tony Fremarek, discusses the importance of reviewing your financial statements. Have you reviewed Q1? How does it measure up to your plan? If you aren’t sure where to start, or don’t have a plan… Contact A Fractional.

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Treating the top 3 pain points of spend management

Future CFO

Spend management touches every step of the procure-to-pay (P2P) cycle. Poorly managed spend-related activities, characterised with manual processes, will inevitably lead to overspending, low visibility and other major challenges. Fortunately, a solution is available today to address these problems head on. This Esker eBook identifies the top three pain points associated with current spend management practices and explores how a holistic, AI-driven P2P automation solution can help alleviate these

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What is Revenue Operations (RevOps)?

Anaplan

When sales, marketing, and customer service align for end-to-end customer connection, the payoff is streamlined operations and more revenue. .

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Payment Hubs - The overlooked advantages of using your TMS and not your ERP for commercial payments

PWC UK

by Chaitanya (Chet) Patel Senior Manager. Email +44 (0)7506 677656. More articles by Chaitanya (Chet). Continuing our series on opportunities for treasurers around ERP upgrades , it’s worth taking a closer look at the specialist bank connectivity functionality within their TMS. Typically treasury payments are made via the TMS and commercial payments by finance colleagues from various ERPs.

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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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The Short, the Index, and the Private Markets

CFA Institute

There is no valid benchmark for the unlisted private equity sector. That needs to change.

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How CFOs make the most of business intelligence

Future CFO

Business Intelligence is at the crossroads of business and tech and it connects so many different aspects of running the business. It’s a very important, yet often misunderstood and underutilized, part of your organisation. When the data BI brings in is used in a smart and strategic way, it can produce incredible advantages. However, this department needs to be connected to an executive level manager who can manage and promote this data in an effective and convincing way.

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The Corporate Tax Burden: Facts and Fiction

Musings on Markets

The Biden Administration's $ 2 trillion infrastructure plan, announced with fanfare a few weeks ago, has opened up a debate about not only what comprises infrastructure, but also about how to pay for it. Not surprisingly. it is corporate taxes that are the primary vehicle for delivering the revenues needed for the plan, with an increase in the federal corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% being the central proposal.

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BlackLine launches new account receivable automation solution

Future CFO

BlackLine said recently that it has unveiled BlackLine AR Intelligence, the latest offering in its portfolio of accounts receivable (AR) automation solutions designed to complement its broader financial operations management platform. . BlackLine AR Intelligence enables customers to manage financial risks and opportunities by providing access to real-time, actionable data to help them understand their customers’ financial behaviours and use the information to impact strategic and operational dec

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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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Setting up a financial shared services centre for success

Future CFO

How Cloud-Based Automation Supports Your Global Initiative. For over 20 years, many businesses have enjoyed the cost savings, operational efficiencies and process quality improvements that shared services centres (SSCs) were designed to deliver – but often not to the fullest extent. Today, competition has become more intense, cost control more important, and process efficiency pivotal.

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Liquidity-fuelled IPO markets break records in traditional slow Q1

Future CFO

Liquidity-fuelled IPO markets in the traditional slow Q1, with 430 deals raising US$105.6 billion in proceeds, said EY recently. The deal number and proceed amount in the quarter represents increases of 85% and 271% year-on-year respectively, which makes the past quarter the best-performing Q1 in the last 20 years, according to the company. Just as traditional IPO markets have been highly active, the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) IPOs in Q1 have also been breaking records, completin

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Global VC investment shatters record

Future CFO

Quarterly VC investment in Q1 2021 flew past the US$100 billion mark for the first time, hitting US$126.9 billion globally across 6,508 deals, up from the previous record of US$98.2 billion across 7,329 deals achieved in Q4’20, said KPMG recently when releasing the latest edition of its quarterly report Venture Pulse by KPMG Private Enterprise. A record nine US$1 billion+ mega-deals by companies located in the US, Asia, and Europe helped drive the surge, contributing more than US$16 billion to t

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Luxasia’s journey to procure-to-pay transformation

Future CFO

The Luxasia Group is a luxury specialist in retail and distribution with headquarters in Singapore and 15 locations across Asia. It is focused on bringing the best global luxury brands to Asia. As a rapidly growing company in the luxury beauty industry, it was looking to set up a Shared Services Centre (SSC) in Malaysia to centralise its accounting department and automate the processing of supplier invoices — initially for its headquarters in Singapore and then, in a second phase, for its subsid

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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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7 tips for effectively managing your AR process in challenging times

Future CFO

During times of significant disruption and uncertainty, it’s essential for organisations to maintain business process efficiency as well as communication with customers and team members. With more companies making the necessary transition to a remote workforce, it’s changing the way accounts receivable (AR) teams work. Today’s unprecedented situation has had a direct impact on businesses and their ability to manage their AR process and collect cash.

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A CFO's guide to understanding cloud ERP buyers and providers

Future CFO

As organizations realize the benefits of cloud computing, an increasing number are committed to moving as many of their applications as possible away from their on-premises infrastructure. Research shows that those who achieve this goal can expect to save 16% to 21% in overall IT spending. In addition, buyers rank cloud systems highly for their speed of implementation, scalability, ease of upgrades and agility.

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A CFO’s guide to 7 ways small businesses benefit from ERP

Future CFO

Delivering organizational visibility, mission-critical data on a single platform and supporting collaboration across remote work forces, cloud-based software helps companies make quick decisions in today’s unpredictable business environment. When an unprecedented 10-year economic expansion came to a grinding halt in early 2020, a lot of companies were left scrambling to adjust their business processes, workforce and supply chains.

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Deeper economic integration between China, Japan and Korea to have mixed effects on firms

Future CFO

Economic integration between China, Japan and Korea will continue to deepen despite China's focus on reducing its dependence on foreign suppliers and developing its technology capabilities, said Moody’s recently. China's booming demand for tech products will continue to boost Korean and Japanese companies, but Chinese competitors pose a long-term threat amid strong government policy support, the credit rating agency noted.

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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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The new accounts payable department & the future of payables

Future CFO

We have all heard the phrase, “Necessity is the mother of innovation”. And if 2020 has taught us anything, it is that this is absolutely true. In the wake of the mass business disruption our global economy has seen recently, business leaders are experiencing this concept first-hand — witnessing as cultures evolve in response to unexpected circumstances and act as a catalyst for innovation and change.

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The adaptable organisation

Future CFO

Organisations that succeed in a changing ecosystem understand that they must be adaptable and empower their workforce by allowing them to focus on a clear mission, said Deloitte. Analysing human connections and using real-time network models can help visualise how decisions are being made and work is getting done in real-time. As a result, organisations can be prepared for change wherever and whenever it happens, the firm added.

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