Sat.Apr 02, 2022 - Fri.Apr 08, 2022

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Spencer Stuart's new CFO tracks Ukraine

CFO Dive

Christine Laurens is now a three-time CFO even as women still only accounted for 15.1% of CFOs at major companies last year.

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How Consumer Packaged Goods Firms Can Navigate a Bumpy 2022

Navigator SAP

It has been a “messy” couple of years for consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms. First supply chains were disrupted by the trade war between the U.S. and China, then Covid-19 came along and both radically altered consumer purchasing patterns as well as further deepened supply chain headaches. While things have temporarily improved as a result of U.S. pandemic stimulus measures and Covid-19 vaccine rollout, there’s still no clear indication that this recovery will be durable and supply chain issues

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Equity Risk Premium Forum: Don’t Bet Against a Bubble

CFA Institute

Cliff Asness, Rob Arnott, Roger G. Ibbotson, and other luminaries explore the nature of bubbles and the momentum factor.

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CFOs shaking it up (part one)

Private Funds CFO

20 ways CFOs are shaking up the agenda: 1-5.

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

Speaker: Melissa Hurrington

Finance isn’t just about the numbers. It’s about the people behind them. In a world of constant disruption, resilient finance teams aren’t just operationally efficient. They are adaptable, engaged, and deeply connected to a strong organizational culture. Success lies at the intersection of people, culture, adaptability, and resilience. Finance leaders who master this balance will build teams that thrive through uncertainty and drive long-term business impact.

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Live enterprise – influencing a finance organization's evolving needs

CFO Dive

The promise and peril of a digital future, e.g., the dot.com boom and bust, emergence of social media and new technologies such as AI/ML, Cloud, Blockchain and IOT, have all converged.

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The EU Artificial Intelligence Act and Financial Services

CFA Institute

With the publication of the AI Act, the EU boldly went where no other regulator has gone before.

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Top takeaways from Future of Fund Services

Private Funds CFO

Future of Fund Services: Three takeaways as managers embrace futureproofing.

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Evaluate the financial health of your company - numbers aren't everything!

CFO Dive

Reading simple data does not determine the company's financial health. There's more to it.

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How to Structure Your SaaS P&L

The SaaS CFO

The SaaS P&L is critical to the management of your SaaS business. I talk about the SaaS P&L (profit and loss statement) almost every week with SaaS founders, finance, and accounting teams. At this point, I’ve reviewed hundreds of SaaS P&Ls (also called an income statement). I’d say about 90% of them are structured incorrectly, […].

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

Speaker: Yohan Lobo

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Time to let go of spreadsheets

Future CFO

In an EY podcast on Why “cash culture” is a critical lever in today’s PE climate , Nick Boreo from EY Strategy and Operations Services spoke out on the importance of cash, particularly during an economic downturn. “Where most companies think about cash flow is actually getting back to the fundamentals of running a business. In the current environment, cash and working capital is the cheapest source of liquidity a business can generate,” he declared.

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InvestorFlow deal merges investor portal with Blackstone-incubated CRM

Private Funds CFO

The company, which provides personalized portals to big names in alternative assets, wants to bring its sophisticated information and workflow management to the mid-market.

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Russian invasion impact challenges auditors: PCAOB

CFO Dive

Auditors need to be on alert for several business disruptions from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that increase the risk that companies will misstate financial results, a federal regulator said.

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Royal Dutch Shell's New CFO Must Organize A Russian Goodbye

Global Finance

Like BP, Norway’s Equinor and France’s TotalEnergies, Shell’s leadership decided that the war with Ukraine made it impossible to maintain its business in Russia.

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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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The enduring use of spreadsheets in finance

Future CFO

Love them or hate it, spreadsheets have been around since 1979 with the release of VisiCalc , a program written for the Apple II computers. Its popularity grew from the desire to take a 20-hour bookkeeping chore into a few minutes of data entry. In one FutureCFO workshop of finance leaders, despite two-thirds using some of the most advanced ERP tools in the market, nearly all concede the use of spreadsheets as part of work.

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InvestorFlow to announce merger; CFOs shaking it up (part two)

Private Funds CFO

InvestorFlow deal merges investor portal with Blackstone-incubated CRM; 20 ways CFOs are shaking up the agenda: 6-10.

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Startup turns employee phones into predictable OpEx

CFO Dive

Riding the device-as-a-service (DaaS) wave, Everphone saves an enterprise customer 21% on mobile device costs, the company’s CEO says.

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Do Nonprofits Use Cash or Accrual Accounting?

The Charity CFO

If you’re like many people, you probably think that there is a single set of accounting rules that every company must follow. . But that’s not quite true—nonprofits face a decision between 2 different accounting methods for tracking their financial activity: cash accounting vs. accrual accounting. Though both systems use the same numbers, looking at those numbers differently can give you a very different perspective on the state of your finances.

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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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Data and analytics: Three imperatives that drive top trends in 2022

Future CFO

Data and analytics leaders should embrace three imperatives when leveraging the top trends for 2022 in their enterprise, said Gartner recently. The three key areas are: activate dynamism and diversity, augment people and decisions, and institutionalise trust, according to the advisory firm. “This year’s top data and analytics (D&A) trends represent business, market and technology dynamics that will help organisations anticipate change and transform uncertainty into opportunity, both of which

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How Understanding Sales Tax Can Help Your Business

CFO Share

Think your business is too small to worry about sales taxes? Think again. Ever since Wayfair v. South Dakota , small business sales tax has been an issue you cannot afford to ignore. With audits ramping up and penalties exceeding $100,000, understanding sales and use tax is essential. The cost of sales tax non-compliance. Violating small business sales tax regulations may result in significant penalties.

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Why real-time cost anomaly detection for your cloud is non-negotiable

CFO Dive

Misconfigurations can spin up the wrong number of services in an organization's cloud use, causing cost anomalies. If this spending appears small, it may go unnoticed, but the costs add up.

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QuickBooks to NetSuite Migration: Minimize Disruption, Maximize Value

Embark With Us

Outgrowing QuickBooks is a classic good problem to have. Sure, just the fact you’re researching migrations to a big-league ERP (enterprise resource planning) system like NetSuite speaks volumes about your past success and rosy future. But like any problem, even of the good variety, it just takes a misstep or two for that good problem to bloom into a full-fledged crisis.

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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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Finance and accounting professionals worry about operating costs

Future CFO

Finance and accounting professionals are worried about operating costs, said ACCA and IMA recently when releasing the latest edition of the Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS). Conducted just before and at the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war between February 14 and March 1, 2022, the survey results understandably point to economic turbulence in the coming months, ACCA noted.

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Perfecting Your Exit Strategy: A Case Study

CFO Simplified

Every business owner knows he’s going to leave his business eventually, but how a business owner does so, is a great indication of their leadership. Today, we have Larry Chester, President of CFO Simplified, presenting a case study on succession planning. He’ll use this case study to discuss the challenges of succession planning, as well as how to avoid these challenges, and train your successor.

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Doudna's CRISPR biotech taps ex-Merrill banker as CFO

CFO Dive

While initial public offerings in the Americas plummeted 72% during the first quarter, Elaine Sun believes strong companies can go public even in volatile markets.

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Drowning in the Private Equity Pool

CFA Institute

What's most surprising about aggregated private market performance calculations? How deeply flawed they are.

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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.