CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Are you a lease accountant navigating 2024? We dive into the trends that have shaped the year, from interest rate volatility to ESG disclosures & the accountant shortage.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The business model of many financial advisory firms revolves around serving clients who are able to pay a certain minimum in annual advisory fees, which reflects not only the value that the advisor can provide for the client, but also the amount that the advisor must charge in order to provide the level of deep planning and investment management that higher-net-worth clients expect (while also earning enough profit to make the venture worthwhile).

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At the Money: Can You Have Too Much Money? Brian Portnoy, Shaping Wealth (September 18, 2024) Can money buy you happiness? How much money is too much? Does wealth offer diminishing returns? In this edition of At the Money, I sit down with Brian Portnoy to explore these questions. Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Brian Portnoy is founder and CEO of Shaping Wealth , which helps advisors and their clients to achieve “funded contentment,” and operates as an outsourced Chief Beha

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cost-Effective Strategies for Maximizing Capital Employed As a CFO, one of the critical tasks is to ensure that capital employed in your business is used efficiently to generate the highest possible returns. Maximizing capital employed doesn’t always require hefty investments; instead, you can use cost-effective strategies to ensure that every rand works hard for the company.

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Time and time again we tell ourselves and others NOT take action on something that is not "broken." We apply that mindset at home and at work. Sometimes, it doesn’t work out so well. Because when it's truly broken, it's usually an emergency, costs more and causes stress. Join us in this webinar where we share ways where you are able to anticipate your needs, understand benefits that you will get from getting better now instead of later, and relieving your team of tasks that they don't need to be

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The Finance Weekly

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Sixty-four percent of tech companies pivot towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline operations. Tech giants like Apple, IBM, Cisco, Dell, and Intel were among the 48 companies that announced a whopping 26,024 job cuts. Over 400 tech companies have made similar announcements, affecting more than 130,000 workers, with January having the highest count of job cuts at 34,107.

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CFO News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Deloitte reported a $67.2 billion global revenue for FY2024, marking a 3.1% increase. With notable growth in Tax & Legal and a strategic FY2025 restructure, the firm targets enhanced integrated solutions and tech-driven transformation.

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The Charity CFO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

With a focus on the concept of collaborative funding, Tosha is joined today by the Executive Director of Young Futures , Katya Hancock. Young Futures is a 501c(3) organization with a mission to make it easier to grow up in the digital world. The organization focuses on young persons aged 10 -19, where they believe young people should still feel hopeful and optimistic about their futures.

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Tips Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com First off, let’s point out that the Federal Reserve has not yet lowered interest rates by a single basis point and, in fact, the federal funds rate has been stable since July 2023.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The valuation of the largest companies in the world fluctuates day to day, even minute by minute, but true success is a marathon, not a sprint. You heard the news: propelled by the AI frenzy, the chipmaker Nvidia passed the $3 trillion market cap and became the most valuable company in the world by market capitalization—for a few days last June, that is.

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Global business travel is surging, with companies spending as much as or more than they did before the pandemic. This trend is expected to continue, with more growth on the horizon. The types of travelers are also changing, with millennials and Gen Zers taking on the majority of the load. Business travel is evolving, and younger generations expect less hassle, even though there are more ways to book and pay for travel than ever before.

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CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Finance chiefs are “uniquely positioned” to take point on AI’s adoption ahead of its coming strategic impact, Thomson Reuters’ interim head of data and analytics said.

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Navigator SAP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The idea is a simple one: an end-to-end backend software solution that is simple enough for startups and fast-growing businesses to roll out quickly and affordably but is modular and flexible enough that the software will continue supporting the business as it grows The less simple part is how to buy SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

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Tips Watch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Too often, the bond market tricks you. It happened again Thursday in the wake of Wednesday’s “sort-of surprise” action by the Federal Reserve to cut short-term interest rates by 50 basis points.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In the nearly 2 years since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been an explosion of new technology solutions incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI). Today, AI is now almost ubiquitous across many of the tools that we use, from smartphone cameras to search engines to office productivity software. For financial advisors, too, a ballooning number of new advisor-focused AI tools has appeared over the last 24 months, purporting to save advisors' time and staffing needs by automatically performing p

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Speaker: Don Gallianza, Credit Manager at Chevron Phillips Chemical and Indy Chakrabarti, Chief Marketing Officer at HighRadius

4 Case Studies to Optimize DSO 26 Days Sales Outstanding. Already better than most. But, should you improve on that? Why would 3 fewer days even matter? It matters because it fundamentally transforms business outcomes. Join this webinar to explore 4 things companies do to reclaim hard dollars - not just soft costs - and go from good to great! What You'll Learn 6 operational KPIs every AR manager should track: Define and track these metrics to enhance performance, drive efficiency, and make infor

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CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

There is a “widening gap” between how executives and employees think about their workplace environments that needs to be taken into account, the report warned.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Now THAT’S a financial conference! If you are reading this on the 19th, I may be still asleep. I am writing this on my flight home, scheduled to land at midnight Wednesday; I was alcohol-free all week (ok, one Mexican lager Tuesday afternoon at my RWM-crew pool swim after the Animal Spirits Live !), and while I feel pretty good, its been a long week.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The big story on Wednesday, September 18, was that the Federal Reserve’s open market committee finally got around to “cutting rates”, and doing so by more than expected. This action, much debated and discussed during all of 2024, was greeted as "big" news, and market prognosticators argued that it was a harbinger of market moves, both in interest rates and stock prices.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) released the latest edition its annual survey outlining the state of state-registered RIAs, showing that the number of state-registered firms and their assets declined slightly in 2023 (perhaps due to many firms seeing their AUM hit the $100 million mark amidst strong market performance and organic grow

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Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Imagine being a financial leader who not only ensures the books are balanced but also shapes the future of your organization. 🤔 ✨ This session will take you beyond the routine reporting and into the realm of strategic financial leadership. We’ll explore how today’s finance professionals can juggle the day-to-day operations while also delivering the long term vision that drives growth.

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CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Kubient’s ex-CEO, ex-CFO and former head of audit each lied to the business’ independent auditor and reported $1.3 million in false revenue, the SEC alleges.

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CFO News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

PhysicsWallah, an online coaching platform, has raised $210 million in a funding round led by Hornbill Capital and Lightspeed, valuing the company at $2.8 billion. The funds will be used to expand its offline presence and diversify into new regions. PhysicsWallah's revenue has grown significantly, with a focus on student outcomes and community building.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Marty’s Zweig’s Trading rules 1) The trend is your friend; don’t fight the tape hard return; 2) Let profits run take losses quickly; 3) If you buy for a reason and that reason if discounted or is no longer valid then sell 4) if the values don’t make sense then don’t participate (2 + 2 = 4) 5) The cheap get cheaper the deer get deer; 6) Don’t fight the Fed (less valid than #1); 7) Every indicator eventually bites the dust; 8) Adapt to change; 9) Don’t let your

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Global full-cycle verification provider Sumsub received full regulatory compliance approval for its non-doc identity verification solution following a regulatory-led audit conducted by FINTRAIL, a global-consultancy specialising in financial crime risk management and regulatory compliance. The company is set to expand its Non-Doc Verification solution into 10 additional markets, including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, and the UAE.

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By ditching paper and manual checklists, UNIFY embraced ART’s cloud-based solution for seamless automation. The robust dashboards, exception reports, and completion date reports allowed the team to easily track progress and resolve bottlenecks. ART’s flexible access for auditors ensured tight deadlines were met effortlessly. With competitive pricing and a rapid setup, ART cut costs and minimized disruptions, enabling UNIFY’s team to concentrate on high-impact tasks.

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CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The violation relates to corrosion in a monitoring well at the agricultural supply chain company’s second injection site that has since been plugged and did not affect surface or groundwater, ADM said in a statement.

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CFO News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

BVR Subrahmanyam, CEO of NITI Aayog, envisions a transformative economic future for India, projecting a doubling of the economy by 2030 and highlighting its potential as a global powerhouse.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

 This week, we speak with Victor Khosla, Founder and CIO of Strategic Value Partners. Before establishing SVP in 2001, Victor served as President of Cerberus Capital. In the 1990s, he built and managed the distressed credit desk at both Citi and Merrill Lynch, establishing two of the top proprietary trading businesses. SVP has grown 5x in size over the past 10 years, now manages over $18B in AUM with 200 employees.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Innovation and leadership are core to Awash Bank’s success, both in its legacy as well as its future. It is already a pioneering privately-owned bank in Ethiopia’s financial landscape. Among its 29 peers in the domestic market, Awash Bank dominates in terms of asset size, profitability, capital base, deposits, and loans and advances. The next step, for most of the rest of this decade, is a roadmap to transform the bank to reach greater heights.

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Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms for an informational webinar about how to select the ideal payments provider for your platform! This session highlights the 7 key criteria for assessing payments partners and maximizing the value of your investment. From evaluating technology and business development programs to understanding support and compliance, this webinar will equip you with a comprehensive evaluation framework and strategy for

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