Sat.Apr 16, 2022 - Fri.Apr 22, 2022

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Tech skills compete with finance savvy in what leadership wants in CFOs

CFO Dive

Digital skills are seen as the building blocks that a successful CFO needs to drive profitable growth today, research shows.

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ERP Evaluation: Are You Looking at Price or Value?

Navigator SAP

If you’ve ever bought land and had a home built from scratch, you know it’s not a simple handoff project. Choices have to be made from the outset that will dictate how you’re going to build that house. The decision to hire a contractor to build the structure, hang the drywall, and install the plumbing and wiring is straightforward enough. What comes after that is an exercise in determining whether you’ll build on price or on value.

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CFOs shaking it up (part four)

Private Funds CFO

20 ways CFOs are shaking up the agenda: 16-20.

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3 Marketing Tools to Adopt to Become Better Finance Business Partners

Fpanda Club

Marketing teams, being among FP&A’s counterparties, are usually considered to be the most creative people in the company. They are responsible for understanding consumers, building relationships with them and eventually getting them interested in company’s products and services. To perform these functions marketing, as a discipline, possesses a wide range of tools and techniques that can be used to analyze data, verify hypotheses and communicate information.

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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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CFOs eye hybrid office savings; firms grow in place

CFO Dive

While some companies have sought to dump office leases, others are looking to keep a lid on costs by quietly accommodating more hybrid workers in existing space.

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A digital transformation is sweeping through compensation and carried interest 

Private Funds CFO

PE firms are discovering how transparency is reducing risk and redefining competition in a world of heightened regulatory scrutiny and tougher employee retention, writes Richard Change of PFA Solutions. .

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What If the US Government Were Valued Like a Company?

CFA Institute

If the US government were a normal company, it would have had to declare bankruptcy long ago.

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Carta's aim of global private stock market starts with a good slide deck

CFO Dive

Since 2012, CEO Henry Ward has been using his deck to excite interest in his plan to transfer private shares digitally and then own the ecosystem of a new stock market.

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Elon's Twitter Play: Valuation and Corporate Governance Consequences

Musings on Markets

I am not a prolific user of social media platforms, completely inactive on Facebook and a casual lurker on LinkedIn, but I do use Twitter occasionally, and have done so for a long time, with my first tweet in April 2009, making me ancient by Twitter standards. That said, I tweet less than ten times a month and follow only three people (three of my four children) on the platform.

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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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Why Culture Index Is So Important To Embark

Embark With Us

Let’s say you indulge yourself after a lifetime's worth of longing from a distance, swing by that fancy car dealership you drive past every day, and decide that today’s the day -- that lovely example of exceptional German engineering will finally be yours. After making such a momentous investment, both in money and the effort exerted throughout a long and laborious career, you aren’t going to let just anyone work on your world-class automobile to keep it running as silky smooth as possible.

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Geopolitical Shock: Regime Change in Inflation and Monetary Policy

CFA Institute

As cracks develop along geopolitical fault lines, new barriers could emerge to disrupt global trade.

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Diversity hiring gains speed in accounting: AICPA

CFO Dive

Companies hiring for jobs in accounting and finance increasingly value recent graduates with technological skills, AICPA said.

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How to Read a Budget vs Actual Report

Centage

Every business needs a budget — but having a budget is just the start. In addition to making a budget every month, quarter, or year, you also need to compare that budget to what your company actually earns and spends. Without a comparison between your forecasted income and expenses and your company’s actual income and expenses, you have no way of knowing whether you are on track, doing better than expected, or falling behind.

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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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Making Sense of the SEC's Climate Change Disclosure Proposal

Embark With Us

Riddle us this – what's 500 pages long, asks over 800 questions, and is giving CFOs acid reflux before it even becomes official? If you said the SEC's recent proposal on climate disclosure requirements, we owe you a gold star.

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World Bank lowers global growth forecast to 3.2% from 4.1%

Future CFO

The World Bank said recently that it has slashed lowered its annual global growth forecast for 2022 from 4.1% to 3.2%, citing the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the world’s economy. The largest single factor behind the economic slowdown was a projected economic contraction of 4.1% across Europe and Central Asia, World Bank noted. Other factors include higher food and fuel costs borne by consumers in developed economies across the globe, the organisation added.

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Accounts payable: Why CFOs should pay attention

CFO Dive

Over one-third of your invoices have errors, and costs to process these may be up to ten times greater than a "clean" invoice.

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Top 5 Nonprofit Financial Red Flags According to a CPA

The Charity CFO

As a CPA working exclusively with nonprofits and a former nonprofit auditor, I’ve looked at thousands of nonprofit financial statements over the past 10 years. Looking at that many balance sheets, you start to identify trends. And while some issues are evident to anyone, others only stand out once you know what to look for. Over the years, I’ve identified a set of 5 nonprofit financial red flags that are fairly common and almost always lead to trouble sooner or later.

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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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Save the date: ‘disputatio publica’ n.a.v. 5 jaar Corporate Finance Lab – Leuven, 1 juni 2022, namiddag

Corporate Finance Lab

Corporate Finance Lab bestaat dit jaar vijf jaar en dat willen we op middeleeuwse wijze academisch met u vieren met een traditionele disputatio. Deze academische oefening bestaat uit een puntige stelling, met een respondens die pro de stelling argumenteert en een opponens die contra is. Traditioneel was het de proef op het einde van de bachelor-opleiding.

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The fundamentals of IFRS 5

Future CFO

Financial reporting specialist and lecturer Adam Deller explains the basic principles of IFRS 5, 'Non-Current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations'. The post The fundamentals of IFRS 5 appeared first on FutureCFO.

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SEC swats pest control company with $8M penalty for accounting flaws

CFO Dive

Rollins Inc., a global exterminator company, adjusted its accounting reserves in order to increase its EPS by 1 cent and meet quarterly forecasts.

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Closing the Gap: Gender Lens Investing and the Future of Finance

CFA Institute

Gender lens investing may be the most powerful approach to achieving gender parity in finance and investment.

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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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Over de aansprakelijkheid van feitelijke bestuurders

Corporate Finance Lab

De bepalingen inzake bestuursaansprakelijkheid van Boek 2 WVV gelden voor de leden van het bestuursorgaan, het dagelijks bestuur én “alle andere personen die ten aanzien van de rechtspersoon werkelijke bestuursbevoegdheid hebben of hebben gehad” (art. 2:56, eerste lid WVV). Die laatste omschrijving heeft als doel om de zgn. ‘feitelijke bestuurders’ te vatten.

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Global IPO market saw significant slowdown in Q1 2022

Future CFO

Global IPO market saw significant slowdown in Q1 2022 after fter record-high levels of global IPO activity in 2021, said EY recently. The year started off strongly, continuing the momentum of Q4 2021, with January producing the strongest opening month in 21 years by proceeds, the firm noted. However, by the second half of the quarter, worldwide stock market declines shifted the trajectory dramatically in the opposite direction, resulting in a significant drop in overall activity, EY added.

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Most companies unable to gauge whether suppliers meet ESG goals: survey

CFO Dive

Companies that collect data about their suppliers can gain insights needed to influence suppliers’ behavior on carbon emissions and other sustainability goals.

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How to Calculate Your Profitability: A Case Study

CFO Simplified

As Iowa State University reminds us, “profitability is the primary goal of all business ventures.”. Business leadership is often responsible for measuring current, past, and future profitability. But what is profitability? Profitability is the difference between the amount you sold a product or service for, and what it cost you to buy or create it. The importance?

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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.