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What Are the Top Three Skills of a CFO?

CFO Simplified

At CFO Simplified, our President Larry Chester receives the same question over and over: “What does it take to become a great CFO?” Or, what about people who don’t themselves want to become a CFO, but perhaps are business owners looking to hire one permanently or on a fractional basis? What are the qualities that you should look for that will help guarantee success in that role to guide you as a senior financial executive in your company?

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Nearly one-third of workers plan to quit: Conference Board

CFO Dive

Many CFOs are raising wages in order to curb near-record attrition in a highly competitive labor market.

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What is the Difference Between On-premise and Cloud

Navigator SAP

As more and more businesses follow through on digital transformation projects, they are rethinking their attitudes toward their own IT departments and contemplating what business functions can be hosted in cloud environments. One of those areas being considered for the cloud is enterprise resource planning software (ERP), for example. SAP’s Business One and Business ByDesign are two of the most popular ERP software packages for small-to-medium businesses, allowing users to manage key business fu

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Accounting Solutions For Multi-Location and Multi-Entity Businesses

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Multi-location and multi-entity businesses face unique problems when it comes to accounting. Some of the most common issues these businesses face include manual entry errors, decentralized payables, different currencies, inter-entity transactions, and taxation by location and country. As businesses grow, so does the accounting complexity, requiring a customized financial management system.

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The Growth Architect: How Financial Leaders are Unlocking Potential

Speaker: Ashley Harlan, MBA

What if your role as a fractional CFO went beyond operational support to actively shaping the future of your clients’ businesses? 💼 ✨ In this session, discover how fractional finance professionals can position themselves as architects of growth, guiding their clients toward sustainable success and preparing them for full-time financial leadership.

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The Role of Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Business Budgeting in Modern FP&A

Centage

Business budgeting is a crucial factor with the ability to impact a business’ long-term success or failure. Along with providing important information regarding day-to-day operations, an accurate budget better enables companies to predict revenue, trim costs, and make decisions regarding expenditures and opportunities. Although there are multiple ways to craft a business budget, most companies use one of the following methods: a top-down budget or a bottom-up budget.

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Key Features of Modern ERP Platforms

Navigator SAP

One of the key considerations you must think about when streamlining your business operations is the adoption of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. This type of system helps you integrate all your business processes, tools, and resources for more business resilience, productivity, and agility. For you to achieve this objective, you need to choose the right ERP system.

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Say Good-Bye To QuickBooks With Sage Intacct

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QuickBooks is recognized for being a great basic accounting tool, and it is used by a lot of small businesses because it is user-friendly and affordable. Still, it is not an accounting solution that can handle business processes apart from financials. It is not a full enterprise resource planning solution. If you struggle to run your business using just QuickBooks and an ERP suite, then it’s time to move on up to Sage Intacct so your business can get real-time insights across multiple enti

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What supply chain leaders must learn from the baby formula shortage

Anaplan

Supply chain leaders must learn from the baby formula shortage A chaotic 2020, packed with unprecedented disruptions, dramatic climate events, and the first major global healthcare crisis in a century, rocked supply chains everywhere. Consumer awareness of the supply chain and how it impacts our communities and daily lives erupted virtually overnight.

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C-suite savvy key to digital transformation success, McKinsey says

CFO Dive

Many top executives are underwhelmed by the pay-off from spending on digital transformation, including after building new digital businesses within their companies.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!

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How to Evaluate an ERP System

Navigator SAP

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is an important component of any forward-thinking organization because it helps to integrate and streamline processes for improved productivity and a better customer experience. With a reliable ERP system like the SAP Business ByDesign enterprise planning solution, you’ll have better control over important processes in your business to ensure that everything progresses smoothly and without delays.

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This Week on TRB

The Reformed Broker

And if you haven’t subscribed yet, don’t wait. Check it out below or wherever fine podcasts are played. These were the most read posts on the site this week, in case you missed it: The post This Week on TRB appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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Zomergasten in het Lab: lectuurtips door Jeroen Delvoie

Corporate Finance Lab

‘[T]heologie in de plaats van seks en geweld. Zware kost’ Ter inspiratie voor onze zomerlectuur vroeg Corporate Finance Lab enkele BJ’s (bekende juristen) en vrienden van het Lab: (1) Welke boeken hebben u als jurist het meest gevormd ? en (2) Welke boeken neemt u straks mee op vakantie of beveelt u aan? Vandaag: Jeroen Delvoie, professor vennootschapsrecht aan de VUB en advocaat.

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Most accountants suffer burnout: study

CFO Dive

A high level of chronic stress increases the rate of accounting error, prompting many companies to reopen their books after closing to fix mistakes.

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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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How ERP Helps in Supply Chain Optimization

Navigator SAP

In the current volatile business environment, supply chain management (SCM) is instrumental in accomplishing business growth. SCM plays a major role in determining your business’s financial stability—or lack of it. Therefore, you need to optimize your SCM by implementing a reliable enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in your business.

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The Dark Side Of SPACs

Global Finance

At least 25 companies that merged with SPACs issued warnings indicating doubt about their potential viability and more than 35 corporations associated with SPACs are trading below Nasdaq’s $1 listing threshold.

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Zomergasten in het Lab: lectuurtips door Steef Bartman

Corporate Finance Lab

‘De rechtenfaculteit was een weldadige mix van uiterst progressieve docenten en traditionalisten.’ Ter inspiratie voor onze zomerlectuur vroeg Corporate Finance Lab enkele BJ’s (bekende juristen) en vrienden van het Lab: (1) Welke boeken hebben u als jurist het meest gevormd ? en (2) Welke boeken neemt u straks mee op vakantie of beveelt u aan?

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Confidence among CFOs, accountants falls to record low: survey

CFO Dive

Rising operating costs and persistent supply chain bottlenecks clouded CFOs’ outlook during the three months ending in June.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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Sabbatical Financial Planning: Taking Extended Time Off Without Derailing The Career Or Retirement

Nerd's Eye View

For many workers, a typical career entails a series of successive jobs over several decades, with the end goal of retiring and finally being able to ‘relax’ And while most breaks from work on the traditional path are limited to short vacations, there is a growing movement of individuals who want to take extended time off during their working years to take advantage of their health and opportunities that might not be available to them once they reach ‘normal’ retirement ag

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Canary in the Coal Mine

The Reformed Broker

Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends. This week, Michael Batnick, Shannon Saccocia, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss the Nasdaq bounce, inflation vs spending, good news for the economy, Shannon’s ideas for the second half, and much more! You can listen to the whole thing below, or find it wherever you like to listen to your favorite pods!

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The Tech Effect: a CFO Leadership Council Recap

CFO Leadership

The Tech Effect: a CFO Leadership Council Recap. What’s on the Minds of CFOs as They Face Greater Challenges and a Sea of Digital Transformation Technologies? The Silicon Valley Chapter of the CFO Leadership Council hosted a panel on May 26 around “The Tech Effect: How Finance Can Win the Tech Race.”. The discussion panel featured Annie Wayne, CFO at Liongard, Razzak Jallow, CFO at FloQast, Charly Kevers, CFO at Carta, and was moderated by Tipalti’s VP of Finance, Alex Cedro.

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Recession likely to begin in first quarter 2023: Fannie Mae

CFO Dive

The Fed will probably succeed in slowing inflation but its withdrawal of stimulus may trigger a recession early next year, economists said.

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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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#FA Success Ep 290: Serving Neurodivergent Clients As A Financial Advisor With Autism, With Andrew Komarow

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome back to the 290th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Andrew Komarow. Andrew is the founder of Tenpath Financial Group and Planning Across the Spectrum, a hybrid firm based in Farmington, Connecticut that oversees $100 million in assets under management for 100 client households. What's unique about Andrew, though, is how he, as a financial advisor with autism, has built a firm with a specialized niche of autistic and other neurodivergent cli

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Optimizing Oil and Gas Data Analytics

Embark With Us

Oil and gas isn't lacking for data. It's swimming in it. And yet some companies are still leaving heaping servings of business intelligence on the data analytics table. So what gives? While we don’t want to paint with an unfairly broad brush and label the entire industry as behind the advanced analytics times, how can some – dare we say many – energy companies still suffer beneath the weight of frequent, often severe information gaps and silos?

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5 Examples of APIs in Banking

FISPAN

The transformation of the digital world is well underway thanks to the use of APIs, but what does this mean for the financial services industry? Read on to see how APIs have helped to build a more accessible and convenient customer experience, and how it has helped with connectivity and integration for financial institutions.

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Loop: Why CFOs must craft strong relationships to foster growth

CFO Dive

Building out strong internal relationships with key individuals is essential for CFOs as their roles continue to transform, said Valerie Bauer Gore, CFO of post-purchase software provider Loop Returns.

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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.