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4 Emerging Roles of Finance Professionals

Fpanda Club

Fast-changing environment of the digital age requires not only rapid adaptation of business but also of the finance function, which leads to the evolving responsibilities and roles of the finance professionals. Today’s digital era is known as a turbulent environment with constant changes which forces companies to be extremely nimble to mitigate risks and, what is more important, to identify and capture opportunities.

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Five Critical Reports to Manage Your SaaS Business

The SaaS CFO

There are hundreds of reports that we could create to manage our SaaS businesses. In fact, I’m sure our CRM, accounting, and BI systems are littered with reports that no longer see the light of day. With so much data trapped in our SaaS business, it can be extremely hard to limit our focus to […].

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Seven Qualities of a Successful Transformation Leader

Anaplan

Digital transformation efforts have taken on a new urgency to help businesses drive performance with agility. Especially now, with condensed project timelines and teams scattered due to remote work, these transformation projects need a strong leader who can rally cross-functional teams around operational execution and financial performance. Whether you’re a finance leader heading up a […].

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4 Simple Steps to Building a Pricing Model (and Getting Paid What You’re Worth)

The CFO College

Properly quoting (and collecting) accounting fees can be an overwhelming hurdle for many bookkeepers, especially those just opening up their own practice. If you don’t have a pricing system in place, you run the risk of undercutting your value and inviting potential clients to hire a cheaper (or automated) option. Fortunately, that overwhelm you may be feeling can be easily dissolved with a few tips and reassessment of your value.

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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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Mitigating financial fraud risk with data analytics

Future CFO

At the launch of a recent report examining the effectiveness of financial fraud risk management, Julie Bell Lindsay - the Executive Director at the Center for Audit Quality — was quoted as saying that “the risk of financial statement fraud at public companies is real, and that risk has only increased during the pandemic.”. The risks associated with financial fraud that modern CFOs face today is particularly high.

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Decisions, decisions!

Castle Corporate Finance

To ‘decide’ on something is to arrive at a conclusion after consideration – to choose one option, perhaps out of many that you have been pondering; one root of the word means to cut or kill off! And that can be a daunting thing when it comes to our business decisions: once we decide – we’re committed! Of course, it’s not just in business – pretty much whatever we do in life, we have choices.

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Impact-Weighted Accounting: The Missing Ingredient?

CFA Institute

Can Impact-Weighted Accounting (IWA) help unlock ESG Alpha for investors?

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Real-world lessons for planning in a crisis

Future CFO

The speed and scale of the global shutdown of economies and societies has had a profound impact on every business. Companies have had to respond with their own momentum to stay in control of their business. Since early April, FSN has been interviewing CFOs of global organisations among the Modern Finance Forum to see what strategies they are deploying to manage through the crisis.

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Three ways you can use cash forecasting to future proof your business

CS Lucas

Cash forecasting has and always will be a practice that successful businesses utilise to stay ahead of unprecedented events. COVID-19 created a level of financial strain that businesses could not have accounted for. In times like these, keeping a close eye on your cash flow, monitoring your position and having a clear view of your finances will help future proof your organisation.

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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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The Melting Ice Cube Series - Part 1 - Holding Cash: A Melting Ice Cube

Creative CFP

Two young fish are swimming along when they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" The two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and says, "What on earth is water?” The moral of the story is that we do not always understand the fundamental nature of things that surround us every day.

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Bernoulli’s Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Goals-Based Perspective

CFA Institute

Can goals-based portfolio theory bridge normative and descriptive investment theories?

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CFOs: Do you plan to hold Bitcoin as a corporate asset?

Future CFO

A recent Gartner survey suggests that the answer to the question of whether CFOs would plan to hold Bitcoin as a corporate asset is a no. Only 5% of finance executives polled in February 2021 said they had plan to do so, said Gartner when releasing results of a poll of 77 finance executives including 50 CFOs. In addition, 84% of respondents said they did not plan to ever hold bitcoin as a corporate asset, Gartner noted.

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PodChats for FutureCFO: What a CFO should care about datacentres

Future CFO

2020 may have been a forgettable year for business leaders in Asia, but 2021 may be a different story altogether. With growth forecasts of about +5.4%, we are expecting cautious optimism and investments to move forward. Analysts are predicting the digital economy to accelerate recovery. IDC forecasts that over 65% of the APAC GDP to be digitalized and spending to hit US$ 1.2 trillion between 2020 and 2023.

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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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India’s GDP might grow 10% in fiscal 2022

Future CFO

India’s GDP could grow 10% in fiscal 2022, said S&P Global Ratings recently. Consistently good agriculture performance, a flattening of the Covid-19 infection curve, and a pickup in government spending are all supporting the Indian economy, according to a report by the rating agency. India’s fiscal year begins on April 1 and ends on March 31 in the following year.

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PodChats for FutureCFO: Bridging the confidence gap in financial data

Future CFO

BlackLine recently published a report titled, Finance & Accounting: in a Post-COVID World: Navigating the Changing Landscape. The report noted that 43% of respondents to the study say their organisations have become more focused on scenario planning and stress testing as a result of the pandemic. FutureCFO’s discussions with finance leaders in Asia identified similar conditions.

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Fraud and Deception Detection: Text-Based Analysis

CFA Institute

Technology can give investment pros a huge advantage in evaluating the truthfulness of company communications.

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Mastercard teams with SAP Concur for automated expense and invoice management in APAC

Future CFO

Mastercard said recently that it has partnered with SAP Concur to deliver an expense and invoice management process to banks, companies and government agencies in Asia Pacific for transactions with corporate cards. As businesses and governments seek to increase visibility across payments, optimise credit lines and leverage data to strengthen supplier relationships, the partnership offers transaction solutions along with closer alignment between commercial card providers and their clients, Master

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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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Finance leaders: People are crucial in digital transformation

Future CFO

More than 90% of finance leaders in Singapore view people as an organisation’s most important asset, said ACCA recently when releasing a report based on a survey of more than 160 finance leaders jointly done with EY. While it’s through people that digital initiatives can be driven and gaps between current and desired digital culture within their finance teams can be closed, having a strong digital culture with clear strategies is what sets successful digital transformation apart, survey results

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2021 executive perspectives on top risks

Future CFO

Some risk elements remain consistent such as cyber threats and data risk, but the future of work and the need for operational resilience are creating a need for agility like never before, said Protiviti. The post 2021 executive perspectives on top risks appeared first on FutureCFO.