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Time to pay your SS tax deferral!

CFO Share

Remember that flurry of CARES act tax credits, stimulus, and tax deferrals? There was lots of free money in the CARES act, but one component needs to be repaid this December: the social security tax deferral. When Covid-19 first began, it was easy to check a box in payroll systems to automatically defer social security tax payments. That means your business incurred social security tax expense, but did not pay it in 2020.

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Cloud ERP Empowers Scaling of Biotech Startups

Navigator SAP

Biotech startups have a lot to juggle.

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Michael Stier on the BuilderNuggets Podcast

Focus CFO

The BuilderNuggets Podcast. with Michael Stier. Michael Stier discusses the benefits of a fractional CFO (and fractional other titles for that matter) that can help you propel your business forward without having to add someone to your staff full time. In this episode we dive into the power of having someone like a fractional CFO (and fractional other titles for that matter) that can help you propel your business forward.

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Read the eBook: The 2022 CFO Playbook for Strategic Decision-Making

Planful

The strategic role of the CFO has become less about finance and accounting and more about becoming a strategic partner to the entire organization. It’s especially true as 2022 promised to bring continued uncertainty along with new opportunities for growth. Pushing forward requires CFOs to get involved in the business and convey the importance of […].

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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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Managing across the Corporate Life Cycle: CEOs and Stock Prices!

Musings on Markets

One of the big news stories of last week was Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO of Twitter, and the market's response to that news was to push up Twitter's stock price by almost 10%. That reaction suggested, at least for the moment, that investors believed that Twitter would be better off without Dorsey running it, a surprise to those in the founder-worship camp.

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Those Who Have Knowledge, Don’t Predict

Focus CFO

Those Who Have Knowledge, Don’t Predict. By Michael Stier. “Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.” – Lao Tzu. Some business owners downplay the complexity of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and mistakenly task their accounting team with this crucial function, or hope their CPA firm can be of help.

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Book Review: Asset Allocation and Private Markets

CFA Institute

Even investors who operate exclusively in public markets can benefit from the book’s thoughtful and sometimes unconventional takes.

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Japanese Version Of SPACs Floated

Global Finance

SPACs have become all the rage in North America, but have yet to make a big splash in Asia.

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162: Lindelani Gumbo

CFO Talks

? ? ? ? ? ?. Inspired to follow in her father’s footsteps as a CA, Lindelani Gumbo has carved her own path as a regulatory accountant, a career built on a genuine passion for the financial sector and regulatory space. Today’s podcast is sponsored by Draftworx, which provides automated drafting and working paper financial software to more than 8000 accounting and auditing firms and corporations.

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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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Employee Spotlight: Meet Anek Grewal

FISPAN

In this month’s Employee Spotlight feature, and the last one of 2021, we’d like you to meet Anek Grewal , the Operations Support Representative on our Client Experience (CX) team. Anek brings an extensive background in business development and customer success, with key specializations including project scoping, business and financial analysis, and relationship management.

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Important Questions to Ask Before Building Any Power BI Report

Collectiv

If you’re responsible for building Power BI reports at your organization, that means people are coming to you all the time with requests. One of the most important parts of a data analyst’s role is to ask the right questions before you create any tools that your team will use regularly, like reports and dashboards. The adoption of analytics and business intelligence (ABI) platforms hit the 30% adoption ceiling in 2019 and stayed there, according to Gartner.

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Inflation is here. It’s real. It could take you out of business.

VCFO

This blog is a wakeup call. Inflation is here to stay without substantial intervention. Intervention isn’t going to happen until those making the calls acknowledge this is not a transitory situation and implement necessary actions to include raising interest rates. However, as you will see outlined below, even that will most likely not tame the monster.

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Modern Variants of Capitalism, Part 3: Digital Capitalism

CFA Institute

Digital capitalism has transformed our lives into a new commodity: personal data.

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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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Do You Decide to Plan or Plan to Fail?

CFO Simplified

It’s not a new concept, but it is a lesson that we are reminded of constantly. Those not wanting to sound clichéd change the way they state it, but the overarching message is that if there is no plan, there is no goal to meet, so it’s unlikely that you or your team know if the goal was reached. But more importantly, the team is not working together in moving towards the goal.

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VC market for cannabis gains momentum

Fox Corporate Finance

Investment into US and European cannabis companies have been continuously increasing over the past years. Whereas 72 venture capital transactions were conducted in 2016, the number of transactions in 2021 (YTD) have increased by almost. Read more. The post VC market for cannabis gains momentum appeared first on FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH.

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Introducing Jedox X: The Next Generation Experience

Jedox Finance

To succeed in today’s business world, you need to respond to new challenges quickly and adapt your business to ever-changing requirements. The next generation experience, Jedox X, helps you do just that, using the latest technologies to deliver faster results and maximum flexibility.

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How to ensure managers’ success in the hybrid world

Future CFO

CFOs: Have you allocated budget for ensuring managers’ success in the hybrid world? According to Gartner , there are three strategies that can help achieve this. A Gartner survey of 75 HR leaders in January 2021indicates that 84% of respondents said it was more important for managers to develop soft skills — such as navigating difficult conversations — in a hybrid setting.

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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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It’s the time of the year for strategic planning and budgeting

CFO Simplified

As the end of the fiscal year comes into focus, it’s time to put together plans for the upcoming year. If you’ve put together annual strategic, operational, and financial plans previously, terrific. If not, there’s no time like the present to do this for the first time. Most successful companies have an annual planning process to put together specific plans and goals for the upcoming year.

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Surviving the Great Resignation for Finance Leaders

Lime Light

The “Great Resignation” has left its mark in the workplace. The pandemic has caused unrest across the economy and spurred mass job quitting in nearly every sector with finance, health care, and tech being especially hard-hit. 3.9 million people quit their jobs in June of 2021 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics , one of several months in which that figure approached record highs, and more have left since.

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How to Improve Risk Management Through Scenario Planning

The Finance Weekly

Finance teams serve as the most important informants for their organizations, hence shouldering the critical responsibility of preventing bad outcomes. They need to carefully consider the various what-ifs that can occur with different business decisions, accurately predict what setbacks could occur with different paths, and strategize how to evade negative results.

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Welcome Steven Stewart

Focus CFO

Welcome Steven Stewart. Welcome to the Team! . Over 40 years of financial leadership. Excel in strategic and financial planning, complex contract negotiation and management, labor negotiations, and accounting. Successful application of research, process analysis, cost accounting, quantitative analysis, management, and negotiation to effectively resolve and manage a variety of business issues.

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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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FCF European Forestry, Paper and Packaging Market Study – 2021 published

Fox Corporate Finance

FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH is delighted to publish the new “FCF Forestry, Paper & Packaging Market Study – 2021”. FCF regularly engages in research on the forestry, paper and packaging sector based on available. Read more. The post FCF European Forestry, Paper and Packaging Market Study – 2021 published appeared first on FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH.

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CFOs: Cybersecurity concerns in 2022

Future CFO

What will be the major cybersecurity concerns in 2022? As the new year is around the corner, senior executives outside IT also need to keep a tap on cybersecurity trends to better guard their organisations. According to IBM Vietnam, there are five major cybersecurity concerns in 2022 as follows. The technology firm said the predictions were developed from its IBM X-Force and Security experts.

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LTV/CAC Ratio: Your Secret Technique to Measure Sales & Marketing ROI

Cube Software

I think you'll agree with me when I say: It's super important that you earn more from your customers than you spent to acquire them. As it turns out, there's a super useful metric that measures exactly that. Even better: this metric can (and should) inform your strategic initiatives going forward. In this blog post, you're going to learn all about the LTV/CAC ratio and how to calculate it.

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Simple Financial Planning for SaaS Founders

The SaaS CFO

The fourth quarter is traditionally “budget season.” For those in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), you may be cringing at reading the words budget season. I cringe when I think about the many budget memories and late nights at public companies. Is v.21 of the Board deck ready? Ugh. Founders, we are not going down […]. The post Simple Financial Planning for SaaS Founders appeared first on The SaaS CFO.

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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.