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Companies settle on hybrid return-to-office model

CFO Dive

After embracing remote work, both employers and employees see social interaction as integral to satisfaction and performance.

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What Do Start-Ups Need to Look out for While Scaling Their Business?

Navigator SAP

Startups at the growth stage need financial tools, controls, and resource planning as their products evolve from idea to IPO. Challenges, risks and dynamic changes arise along the way as the company’s products and services follow the steps that transform a product concept into marketable merchandise. Product development must iterate in response to customer feedback, and the company must introduce new products and services as the business expands.

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How Long Can Russia Withstand the Sanctions?

CFA Institute

The toll of the economic embargo on Russia will be enormous.

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Russian sanctions highlight the importance of ongoing AML/KYC monitoring

Private Funds CFO

Although private funds aren’t subject to AML regulations, a CSC webinar outlined best practices for customer due diligence amid heightened investor scrutiny.

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The Human Side of Finance: The Intersectionality of People, Culture, Adaptability, and Resilience

Speaker: Melissa Hurrington

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CFOs chase products as war clouds supply chain outlook

CFO Dive

“We believe that through 2022, the supply chain will be the fundamental limiting factor to our total output for the year,” Rivian Automotive CFO Claire McDonough said.

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The Russia–Ukraine War and Other Geopolitical Risks

CFA Institute

The spillover effect of the Russia-Ukraine War will increase food prices and geopolitical risk throughout the world.

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GP-led actors likely to seek SEC rule exemptions

Private Funds CFO

Certain types of deal may not require a fairness opinion, a case likely to be made to the regulator during the ongoing consultation period.

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Buybacks soar as companies eye Ukraine, other volatility sources

CFO Dive

CFOs in the S&P 500 are sitting on almost $3T in cash, money they can’t easily spend to increase productivity because of tight labor, supply chain constraints.

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Century Bonds Issued

Corporate Finance

With the threat of an increase in interest rates, it appears to be a good time for borrowers to lock on interest rates for a long time. TTUN is the latest to do so, issuing $1.2 billion worth of century bonds, that is bonds with a 100-year maturity, at a coupon rate of 4.45 percent. At the same time, TTUN issued $800 million of 30-year maturity bonds at 3.5 percent.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo

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Causality Techniques in Investment Management: Five Key Findings

CFA Institute

What are the most widely used causality tests in the equity markets?

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DATA SNAPSHOT: Diverse managers by number and performance

Private Funds CFO

More than 20 firms with a diverse management team are coming to market each year, says private markets firm RCP Advisors.

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What the new R&D tax rule means for life sciences companies

CFO Dive

For established companies with very large R&D expenses, the cash tax impacts can be a billion-dollar issue.

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Theresa Guest Joins The Charity CFO as Accounting Manager

The Charity CFO

Today we’re proud to announce another amazing addition to the industry’s best nonprofit accounting team! Theresa Guest is joining The Charity CFO team in the role of Accounting Manager. Theresa is an experienced leader in accounting and financial reporting, budgeting, and analysis, with an extensive finance career in the healthcare supply chain industry.

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Smarter Card Solutions: Meeting the Challenges of Mid-Market Travel & Expense

Our 2025 Center Travel Survey is clear: as corporate travel increases, so does corporate credit cards distribution, and a rise in off-platform travel booking. This 61% rise causes various challenges: compliance, spend control, reporting problems, and a lack of visibility across organizations. To evolve with the ever-changing needs of travelers, decision-makers need a better solution.

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Companies to significantly reduce annual compliance training

Future CFO

Companies are estimated to reduce annual compliance training by 50% by 2025, said Gartner recently. This will displace costs in favour of embedded workflow-based controls to guide employees, according to the advisory firm. “Many compliance leaders are dissatisfied with the effectiveness of their existing program activities,” said Chris Audet, senior director, research in the Gartner Legal, Risk & Compliance practice.

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Expect banks to scrutinize your AML processes – CSC

Private Funds CFO

Russian sanctions highlight the importance of ongoing AML/KYC monitoring.

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Inflation gauges rising as Fed weighs cutting stimulus

CFO Dive

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spurred inflation and complicated efforts by the Federal Reserve to curb price gains without harming employment and economic growth.

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How to Get Started With Financial Scenario Planning

Centage

If there’s one thing COVID-19 has made clear it’s that the future is uncertain. While you might not be able to predict how the pandemic will continue to affect the world in the coming years, as a small business owner, there are steps you can take to ensure your company weathers the impending changes successfully. Designed to help businesses prepare for the unknown, financial scenario planning is a strategic tool for flexible long-term decision-making.

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Bringing AI to Finance: How to Leverage Technology for Efficiency and Control

Finance teams are balancing more than ever, but manual processes shouldn’t slow you down. In this ebook from BILL, discover how AI is transforming finance—automating AP, expense tracking, and document management to reduce errors, increase efficiency, and improve financial control. Learn how real companies are using AI-powered automation to streamline workflows, detect anomalies, and gain deeper insights.

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Setting a process flow is essential to finance automation

Future CFO

Hexamatics Servcomm , an HR and business process service provider headquartered in Malaysia, decided at the onset of the current pandemic to automate its operational account and control (OAC) function, which has been crucial in reducing daily operation time by 50% to 60%. According to the company’s assistant finance manager Kausalyaa Somosundaram , the exercise was primarily aimed at allowing the company to track its bookkeeping – both accounts receivables (ARs) and accounts payables (APs) – fro

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Challenging the SEC’s GP-led proposal; Cybersecurity Consultants

Private Funds CFO

GP-led actors likely to seek SEC rule exemptions ; Updated cybersecurity consultants directory.

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FASB leaning toward making customer relationships part of goodwill, not separate intangible

CFO Dive

Although the Financial Accounting Standards Board took no action on the matter at its early-March meeting, members signaled they’d like to stop counting a company’s customer relationships as an asset.

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Financial Forecasting vs. Projections

Planful

When you refer to a forward-looking financial prediction, do you call it financial forecasting or a financial projection? Often, these terms are confused or used interchangeably. But there are some key differences that you should understand. The main difference is in the timing. Financial forecasting addresses your immediate predictions, while projections focus on the long […].

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Say ‘Goodbye’ to Clunky Spreadsheets and Say ‘Hello’ to Month-End Automation

Technology is rapidly changing the way accountants perform and manage month-end activities. Spreadsheets, emails, and shared drives no longer need to slow you down. In under four weeks, your team can start reaping the benefits of month-end close automation by vastly reducing spreadsheets, cut down on reconciliation work, speed up the month-end close, and better manage your remote team.

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Best practices in orchestrating M&A in times of crisis

Future CFO

Refinitiv estimates that as of January 2022, the global M&A volume stood at US$5,160 billion , each with an aggregate value of US$100M or more. To be specific this does not include terminated transactions and future terminations of pending transactions will reduce the total further. But who is counting? Rob Kindler , global head of M&A at Morgan Stanley , said the environment remains very good for M&A in 2022.

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SEC goes after fund auditor

Private Funds CFO

SEC takes aim at a private fund auditor’s part in fraud case.

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Private capital is ready to fund climate, social goals, if companies get ESG measurement right

CFO Dive

CFOs can get an idea of what to expect from SEC, other federal mandates by looking at what California and New York are considering.

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Managing Your Business Using the ‘Two-Pizza Rule’

CFO Simplified

All businesses are created with the intent to succeed. Statistics prove, however, that unfortunately many do not. In fact, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), “20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more.”.

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Outsourcing Vs. In-House: The Ultimate Battle For Better Collections

Speaker: Susan Richards

Your past-due accounts are growing, cash flow is tightening, and the pressure is on. The big question: Do you handle the collections internally or outsource to experts? Both strategies come with advantages and risks - but which one delivers the best impact for your business? In this session we’ll dive deep into the in-house vs. outsourcing debate, examining cost-effectiveness, efficiency, compliance risks, and overall recovery success rates.