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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CFOs shaking it up (part four)

Private Funds CFO

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Survey: C-suites in Asia Pacific to increase digitalisation to drive sustainability

Future CFO

Digitalisation has a more important role in play in sustainability as 88% of C-suites in Asia Pacific will increase the use of digital solutions to drive it in the 36 months, said Tata Consultancy Services when releasing results of a survey. The survey collected respondents from 200 C-level executives from companies with an annual turnover ranging from US$151 million to more than US$10 billion across 12 sectors and 10 countries, namely Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Phil

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How Litigation Funding Can Protect a Small Company’s Cash Flow

CFO

For companies of all sizes and in all jurisdictions, a common emphasis is on reducing risk exposure and costs while still looking for opportunities to maximize revenues, market share, and advance business objectives. When the prospect of litigation arises, companies can struggle with issues such as determining how to protect company interests and valuation and.

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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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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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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.