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The AI Bubble of 2023

The Reformed Broker

“When I see a bubble forming I rush in to buy, adding fuel to the fire. That is not irrational.” – George Soros, 2009 I’ve spent 25 years watching, trading and investing in the stock market. The repetition of patterns is amazing. In every generation we see new bubbles, which form when a new innovation comes along and everyone gets excited about the future.

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How Managers Can Address Their Own Biases Around Mental Health

CFO News Room

Discrimination against employees because of their health — including mental health — is illegal. While HR can make sure the right supports are in place, managers should also make sure that stigma isn’t impacting their day-to-day decisions about their teams. For example, how can a manager prevent their personal views on mental health from biasing their task assignment or performance reviews of an employee who’s disclosed a mental health challenge?

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Deficiencies In Audit Quality

Global Finance

Audit companies face an audit by an government oversight agency and are found lacking.

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Navigating the Thrift Savings Plan: Planning Opportunities To Support Federal Employees, Military Servicemembers, And Veterans

Nerd's Eye View

Seasoned financial advisors have likely worked with clients with a wide variety of workplace retirement accounts, which can vary in terms of their investment offerings, fees, and other characteristics. But given that the U.S. government is the largest employer in the country, it can be especially helpful for advisors to be familiar with the ins and outs of (and recent changes to) the Federal government’s own defined contribution plan: the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP).

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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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Ex-Wendy’s US CFO lands at Little Caesars

CFO Dive

Little Caesars said its new finance chief, Leigh Burnside, will oversee the expansion of the company’s accounting team as it seeks to support recent growth.

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Pinterest CFO to depart following weak quarter

CFO Dive

Todd Morgenfeld’s departure follows mediocre quarterly results from the social media service, which is facing a slowdown in ad spending.

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The Profit Motive: In Defense of Shareholder Value Maximization

Corporate Finance Lab

What is the purpose of a corporation? Is it, as Nobel Economics laureate Milton Friedman famously claimed, “to increase its profits”? [1] Or is it, as the Business Roundtable—a group of approximately 200 mostly USA corporate CEOs— claimed in 2019, “generating good jobs, a strong and sustainable economy, innovation, a healthy environment and economic opportunity for all.” [2] In the academic sphere, the weight of scholarly opinion has tilted substantially towards stakeholder capitalism in recent

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Masters in Business Live With Vanguard’s Tim Buckley

Barry Ritholtz

I am in Florida for the big ETF Exchange event. It’s a giant annual conference with 2000+ people attending in Miami to network, talk ETF’s, and discuss the future of the industry. It’s always a worthwhile hang. (Full agenda here ) My contribution to the event is a live Masters-in-Business with the Vanguard Group’s CEO Tim Buckley. We will be recording it for broadcast next week; even if you cannot make it to Miami tomorrow, you will be able to hear what the CEO of Vanguard Grou

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How CFOs Can Use ERP During a Recession

Navigator SAP

The economic outlook is very uncertain in these post-pandemic times. World Bank president David Malpass gives a 50 percent chance that there will be a world recession in 2023. Goldman Sachs is a bit more optimistic—about the US, at least—forecasting a 35 percent chance of a recession in the US this coming year. Forecasters polled by the Wall Street Journal give it about a 65 percent chance of a recession.

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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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Credit Suisse reportedly pulls C-suite, banker bonuses

CFO Dive

The Swiss bank is aiming to incentivize executives with long-term awards as it attempts to return to profitability. It reported its second consecutive annual net loss.

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Stocks moving big after hours: META, ALGN, ELF

CFO News Room

Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in after-hour trading. Meta — The Facebook parent jumped 17% after the company announced a $40 billion stock buyback when reporting quarterly results. Meta beat analysts’ estimates for fourth-quarter revenue, according to Refinitiv. Meta also said it lost $13.7 billion in 2022 in the business unit responsible for the metaverse.

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Japan: Regional Bank M&A On The Rise

Global Finance

While the decline of regional banks in Japan can be traced as far back as the mid-1980s and 1990s, led mainly by a series of bankruptcies up until around 2003, the precipitous drop since the mid-1990s has been mainly due to mergers and acquisitions.

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The Hype Cycle, Expertise & Dunning Kruger

Barry Ritholtz

I am always fascinated when seemingly random sources converge on the same concept. The current convergence involved some research I was doing centered on Dunning Kruger, Vanguard’s Tim Buckley, my partner Josh’s AI/ChatGPT post, and the general state of the market. It’s like a real-time version of “ The Blind Men and the Elephant ,” by John Godfrey Saxe.

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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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Middle market CFOs face revenue, spending dichotomy: study

CFO Dive

Although a majority of middle market CFOs expect increased revenue in 2023, only 18% plan to increase spending to support that growth, according to a recent study.

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Labor market off to a strong start in 2023: 517,000 jobs added in January as unemployment rate hits historic low

CFO News Room

Posted February 3, 2023 at 9:44 am by EPI Staff Below, EPI economists offer their initial insights on the jobs report released this morning, which showed 517,000 jobs added in January, the unemployment rate hitting a historic low of 3.4%, and wage growth slowing. From EPI senior economist, Elise Gould ( @eliselgould ): Read the full Twitter thread here.

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Picking Golden Shares Over Tech Crackdown

Global Finance

China's government is relaxing its crackdown on the tech sector while scooping up premium shares in certain players in the tech industry.

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Peak Substack?

Barry Ritholtz

I get too many emails. So much so that I had to set up separate email addresses for things like subscriptions, etc. I am impressed with the overall quality of Substacks I receive; I have a few favorites that I never miss. But it hass become too easy to add another, and they all it piled up in my inbox, looking a little too much like homework. It recently got worse: I have noticed how many of my subscription emails in the inbox (see above) are now Substacks.

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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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Business lobby rips Biden’s stock buyback tax plan

CFO Dive

The push to raise taxes on corporate stock buybacks could hurt America’s retirement savers, as well as entrepreneurs, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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January jobs seen slowing slightly, but impact of big layoffs unclear

CFO News Room

Economists expect slightly slower, but still strong job growth in January, while the impact of corporate layoff announcements is unclear. According to Dow Jones, the consensus forecast calls for 187,000 new nonfarm jobs in January, down from 223,000 that were created in December. The employment report will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET Friday. The unemployment rate is expected to edge higher, to 3.6% from 3.5%.

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Subway Sale Tests LBO Market

Global Finance

A Subway sale would be the biggest restaurant M&A deal since Inspire Brands bought Dunkin’ for $11.3 billion in 2020.

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Compliance reduction & decriminalization of legal provisions will foster ease of doing business

CFO News

With compliances and penalties being eased, it will not only further enhance India’s rank but will get India a tag of being a preferred destination for foreign capital. In addition, this will reduce the burden on the already burdened judicial system to hear and award criminal punishments.

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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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VinFast US CFO included in North America layoffs: report

CFO Dive

The cuts come as the company is consolidating its Canadian and U.S. strategic business and management operations into a single unit that will be known as VinFast North America.

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Making Performance Reviews Fairer in a Hybrid Workplace

CFO News Room

Creative approaches to performance evaluation are necessary at hybrid workplaces to make sure that all employees are evaluated and developed according to their merit, regardless of where they do most of their work. Workplaces that have successfully managed the evaluations of hybrid employees do three things. First, they define performance in terms of customer satisfaction, company values, core activities, and project completion.

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Lack of Efficiency With Excel Spreadsheets

Centage

Spreadsheets are a powerful method for many businesses to store data, perform simple calculations, and help visualize essential information. As businesses continue to grow, however, spreadsheets can become complex and unwieldy for meeting a company’s complete financial planning and analysis (FP&A) needs. Why Are Spreadsheets Inefficient? Spreadsheets present multiple challenges when used as a budgeting , planning , or forecasting tool. 1.

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RBI raises repo rates by another 25 bps to 6.5%

CFO News

The MPC also decided by a majority of four out of six members to remain focused on withdrawal of accommodation to ensure inflation remains within the target while supporting growth.

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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.