Beacon CFO Plus
JANUARY 9, 2023
by Rob Joseph, Director, BeaconCFO Plus. You sit down at your desk with a fresh cup of coffee and every intention of tackling a complex task. Then your phone buzzes with a new text message. You glance at the growing total of unread emails in your inbox. A reminder for a Zoom call in 30 minutes pops up on your computer screen. All of us are susceptible to these digital distractions every minute of the day.
CFO Dive
JANUARY 9, 2023
How to recognize and avoid the insight gaps keeping your company from reaching peak potential.
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Cube Software
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Workforce management (WFM) involves the strategic planning , scheduling, and monitoring employee tasks and activities.
CFO News
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Finance heads will continue to increase their spending in key segments of information technology next year as digitalisation stays a strong investment theme for the Indian industry.
Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
CFO News Room
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While it may be easy to assume that having more money would make a person happier by opening consumption opportunities unavailable to those with less income, experienced advisors can likely identify many examples of high-income individuals who are unhappy with their lives. To provide a more holistic view, researchers have sought to assess whether increased income leads to greater happiness on two dimensions: emotional wellbeing (how an individual feels today) and evaluative wellbeing (how an ind
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Adam Kae
JANUARY 9, 2023
Answers with Adam: How does the pricing structure work at Adam Kae & Associates? CFO Adam: So the nice part about my pricing is I have one set of service with three ways to pay for it. So there's three pieces to my service. There's strategy sessions , there's biweekly calls and then there's strategy time for me to work in the background. It's the same across all three of my packages, the exact same level of service, but the way you pay for it is slightly different.
Navigator SAP
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If you want your organization to be agile and nimble, breaking down silos that inhibit collaboration and transparency should be a priority. One way to do this is with data-backed decision-making that enables you to better respond to evolving market conditions.
CFO News Room
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Leading up to 2022, financial advisors and their clients had grown accustomed to a relatively low mortgage rate environment. In fact, until earlier this year, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate had stayed below 5% since 2010 (and below 7% since 2001). But as the Federal Reserve has sought to raise interest rates this year to combat inflation, mortgage rates have reached higher levels not seen in more than 20 years, with 30-year fixed mortgages reaching an average of 6.9% in October 2022, tw
Cube Software
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So… it’s finally happened. You’ve decided to embrace your surgical attention to detail and spreadsheet prowess.
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CFO Dive
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Finance leaders are still prioritizing digital transformation even as they face economic headwinds.
Navigator SAP
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One reason that businesses move to ERP is for intelligent process automation. But this can be a nebulous term, often combined with vague buzzwords such as automated robotic processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
CFO News
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Business leaders across India are optimistic about the economy despite the gloomy world outlook.
Barry Ritholtz
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It may surprise you to learn that during this cycle of falling inflation, there seems to be little correlation with rising Fed Rates. This is very counter-intuitive but it makes sense when you consider what an aberrational and unusual cycle this has been. Despite zero rates for a decade plus inflation was quite benign. it was only the combination of the global pandemic and lockdown, a massive fiscal stimulus, and a surge in demand for goods that have driven the 2020 to 2022 inflation.
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CFO Dive
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C-suite leaders remain focused on weathering a coming recession, but slowing wage growth and inflation is sparking a shift in cost optimization strategies.
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Philanthropies — be it private foundations, corporate and family funders, LLC’s, or other vehicles for giving — often struggle with the same set of fundamental questions: Are we best leveraging our resources and capabilities to not only fulfill our mission but also bring transformational change to the people and communities who need it most? What kinds of decision-making frameworks could help us have that greater purpose and impact?
Navigator SAP
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Whenever medium-sized businesses compete, chances are that there will be numerous big businesses able to stay ahead of the curve due to their size, budget, and history in the marketplace. The way for smaller businesses to outcompete the big guys is to streamline their operations and provide higher quality services at competitive prices.
Corporate Finance
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Have you ever been short on money and gone through your clothes, only to find a $20 bill that you had forgotten about? We are sure that you were relieved. The same thing just happened to cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which filed for bankruptcy back in November. FTX attorneys announced that the company had found $5 billion in cash, liquid cryptocurrency, and other liquid investments!
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri
CFO Dive
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The opposite of quiet quitting, quiet hiring allows CFOs to cut costs. It can also be a tension point for employees.
CFO News Room
JANUARY 13, 2023
Even if you overcame financial issues caused by the pandemic, the last few years have made it difficult to “get ahead.” The statistics show that time and time again, consumers are struggling to make ends meet due to much higher prices across the board. A recent report by PYMNTS and LendingClub showed that 60% of American consumers have had to cut spending due to high inflation over the last 12 months.
Navigator SAP
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for medium businesses —or businesses of any size—can play a major role wherever they’re used, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is no exception.
Barry Ritholtz
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This week, we speak with the legendary John Mack, former chief executive officer and chairman of the board at Morgan Stanley. He recently published a memoir of his life and 34-year tenure at Morgan Stanley, “ Up Close and All In: Life Lessons from a Wall Street Warrior.”. We discuss how he ended up on Wall Street because he needed a job when an injury ended his college football career and scholarship.
Speaker: Cheryl J. Muldrew-McMurtry
Distributed finance teams are rewriting how the back-office runs, and attackers are taking notes. Disconnected workflows, process blind spots, and rising cyber threats are more than just growing pains—they’re liabilities. The challenge isn’t just going remote. It’s building resilient systems that protect accuracy, control, and speed across every transaction and touchpoint.
CFO Dive
JANUARY 11, 2023
Five trends in deal-making will likely unfold in 2023, including a focus on purchases less than $1 billion and on “friend-shoring” to reduce geopolitical risks to supply chains, WTW said.
CFO News Room
JANUARY 13, 2023
Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that the Federal Trade Commission has proposed a nationwide ban on noncompete clauses in employee contracts, aiming to give employees more freedom to change jobs within the same industry. In the advisor world, where noncompete agreements are fairly common, a ban on the practice could incentivize firms to reassess their employee value proposition and to consider ways to es
Navigator SAP
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and online ERP software are used by numerous businesses, including for laboratory management.
Barry Ritholtz
JANUARY 13, 2023
My Friday the 13th, end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • F@*$#*! 2022 was a record year for earnings call swearing : The “polycrisis” of runaway inflation, pandemics, interest rate increases, supply chain snafus and wars helped lift swearing on earnings calls and investor days to a new record high in 2022. Good job everyone. ( Financial Times Alphaville ). • Elon Musk Might Never Be the World’s Richest Person Again : It’s not just that he became the first person in history to have $200 billion
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CFO Dive
JANUARY 13, 2023
The former CFO of GigaTrust faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud investors and lenders, including by fabricating bank statements.
CFO News Room
JANUARY 13, 2023
In my last post , I discussed how inflation’s return has changed the calculus for investors, looking at how inflation affects returns on different asset classes, and tracing out the consequences for equity values, in the aggregate. In general, higher and more volatile inflation has negative effects on all financial assets, from stocks to corporate bonds to treasury bonds, and neutral to positive effects on gold, collectibles and real assets.
Navigator SAP
JANUARY 7, 2023
Enterprise Resource Planning software, or ERP, is a critical tool for manufacturing and distribution firms that want to obtain complete visibility into core business processes. Manufacturing involves a lot of processes, and ERP software such as SAP Business ByDesign helps in coordination and management of the many moving parts that contribute to a successful manufacturing business.
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