Sat.Dec 03, 2022 - Fri.Dec 09, 2022

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CFOs budget to party like it’s 2009

CFO Dive

While some companies are splurging, the share of businesses surveyed that have holiday parties teed up is hovering near a pre-pandemic low.

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5 Ways to Acquire New Skills Without Going Back to School

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Whether you want to change jobs or prepare for the next-level role, the most important thing to know about upskilling is that every employee needs to be doing it all the time. Jobs are changing as business demands change, and employees are expected to prove their value with increasingly higher expectations. There are plenty of ways to educate yourself and upskill without going back for a traditional undergraduate or graduate degree.

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Crypto Accounting: Decrypting Digital Assets for CFOs and CAOs

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If cryptocurrencies and digital assets like bitcoin and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have you scratching your head, you’re not alone. Sure, some of the confusion might come from the patently foreign vocabulary – blockchain, distributed ledgers, and smart contracts, to name a few – but not all of it.

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CEOs trim hiring, capital investment plans: Business Roundtable

CFO Dive

CEOs facing a gloomier economic outlook have pared back expansion plans but do not necessarily expect a recession in 2023.

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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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You’ve Made Some DEI Progress. Don’t Stop Now

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ALISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Alison Beard. I first met today’s guest via email in May of 2020. Do you remember what was happening in the US at that time? The video of George Floyd’s murder by police had gone viral and protests against racial violence were sweeping the country. At HBR, we were wondering what advice we could give companies about how to respond.

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When Leaders Struggle with Collaboration

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A client of Luis’s, let’s call him Charlie, a senior executive reporting directly to the CEO, was recently given feedback that despite his outstanding performance, his colleagues struggled to work with him. Charlie’s drive to deliver results, his no-nonsense approach to offering his viewpoints, and the intensity with which he approached most everything made him appear unnecessarily competitive, despite that being the furthest thing from his intent.

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How Busy People Can Develop Leadership Skills

CFO News Room

Leadership development should be recognized as an ongoing part of professional life. And while dipping in and focusing on it when time allows is great, as we all know, time doesn’t always allow. That doesn’t mean that you can’t develop your skills. All it takes to become a better leader is dedication and a small investment of time. Carving out time for learning and development is critical for anyone who wants to improve their leadership competencies and performance outcomes.

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How SAP Business ByDesign Offers Advantages for the Life Sciences Industry

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The life science industry has to meet strict regulatory requirements in an extremely competitive environment burdened with financial pressures and unique market demands. Companies in this field can spend years in product development, conceptualizing, and running preliminary clinical trials before they can get approval from the FDA to manufacture and sell a product to consumers.

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3 reforms for the post-FTX crypto era

CFO Dive

FTX’s collapse underscores the highly-centralized crypto market’s risks and blockchain’s importance as a defense against bad actors, Metallicus' CFO argues.

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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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Join me Friday on the annual YCharts year-end webinar

The Reformed Broker

Each Christmas season I do a webinar with my friends at YCharts where we take a look back at the most important charts of the year and discuss which of these trends will remain important going forward. It’s always a lot of fun and registration is free. This takes place tomorrow (Friday) December 9th at 12 noon ET (11am CT). This is a presentation for wealth management and asset management professionals, you can reg.

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The Best Public Speakers Put the Audience First

CFO News Room

Several years ago, I traveled from New York to Geneva, Switzerland to be the closing keynote speaker for the World Communication Forum. I was excited to have the opportunity to speak with global leaders about how nonnative English speakers can present their ideas — and themselves — with greater clarity and confidence. For my allotted 45-minute time slot, I prepared high-quality research, relatable examples, actionable takeaways from my book on the topic , and ample opportunities for audience eng

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What India Inc CFOs make of slower Q2 GDP growth

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Most finance heads vouch for the India growth story and say prospects in the medium to long term are intact. However, they are worried about inflation and recession.

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Tax, accounting firms see tech utilization paying off: survey

CFO Dive

Tax and accounting firms are becoming more comfortable tapping technology as a driver of success as they seek to grow revenue and profit and improve employee effectiveness for 2023.

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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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Top 0.1%: How Much Wealth Does It Take?

Barry Ritholtz

I was working on a longer piece about which economic strata the Fed has the greatest impact on (its more complicated than you might think) when Invictus DM’d me this amazing FRED chart. We looked at this idea earlier this year , but it’s worth revisiting. Using data from the Federal Reserve, FRED analyzed 5 categories: Top 0.1%, the rest of the top 1%, the rest of the top 10%, the rest of the top 50%, and the bottom half.

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Top five EPI blog posts of 2022: Inflation and minimum wage increases among the most-read posts

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Posted December 8, 2022 at 2:58 pm by EPI Staff. Top five EPI blog posts of 2022 : Inflation and minimum wage increases among the most-read posts. Inflation concerns were top of mind for workers and their families across the country, but misinformation on the cause of rising prices was rampant. To figure out what was really going on, many readers turned to the Economic Policy Institute for research-based answers. .

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This Week on TRB

The Reformed Broker

We’re having a live podcast taping to benefit one of our favorite charities, No Kid Hungry. It’s The Compound’s first ever Fan Appreciation Night and we’re joining forces with our friends at the On The Tape podcast to make it a great experience. Taping is December 16th at the Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square. We’re reviewing the year that was and looking ahead to 2023.

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SEC calls for disclosure on crypto risks, citing ‘financial distress’

CFO Dive

The collapse of FTX has slammed scores of creditors, prompting SEC concerns that companies may suffer losses from direct or indirect links to crypto markets.

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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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The Real-Time Visibility of Sage Intacct Opens New Doors for Your Family Office

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Reporting and investment fund management can easily become overwhelming, complicated, and difficult to manage without the right tools at your disposal. Every family office should invest in technology best suited for their clients, capable of managing diverse portfolios and demonstrating healthy returns. Real-time visibility is a game-changer for family offices, and one that is fueling better strategic planning for wealth management.

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Netflix, Lululemon, DocuSign and more

CFO News Room

SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images. Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Lululemon — Shares of Lululemon fell 12% after the athletic apparel company gave a weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter outlook. In the third quarter, the company beat Wall Street’s expectations on the top and bottom lines. related investing news.

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24/7 Financial Advice

Barry Ritholtz

There are periods of time when we all flip on the TV and watch live events unfold in real-time. National disasters, wars, crises, big entertainment and sporting events all tend toward communal viewing. In many ways, it is the last vestiges of the early days of television when there were only 3 networks and mornings in the office led to water cooler discussions of the big show broadcast last night. 1.

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For CFOs rethinking growth, profitability, data is key

CFO Dive

Investing in data analytics that can reveal key opportunities can aid CFOs looking to better balance growth and profitability.

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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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I Collect Cashflows

The Reformed Broker

I’m traveling this week (Houston here I come!) so I dug this one out of the archives because it’s one of the things I believe in even more now than when I wrote it a year ago. This post came out in October of 2021 at the height of NFT mania. I never really understood it. Collecting I get. Collecting things that can be infinitely copied and that you can’t hold in your hand?

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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/8/2022 | naked capitalism

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Bird Song of the Day. Cretzschmar’s Bunting, Gaziantep, Türkiye. Cretzschmar with a “C.” These guys have no logic at all. * * *. * * *. Contact information for plants : Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants.

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What Doesn’t Matter

Barry Ritholtz

One of the reasons people in the investment community respect Howard Marks so much is he says what he believes and lets the chips fall where they may. His observations are always insightful, and over the years have becomeopular, but what really set him apart were his big contrarian observations, such as the Amazon dot Bomb in 1999. I did not get to his recent What Really Matters?

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U.S. watchdog sanctions three KPMG global firms

CFO Dive

The PCAOB cracked down against KPMG for several alleged violations in the latest sign of tougher oversight of the accounting firms that audit publicly listed companies.

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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.