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Using AI to Help Drive the Investment Process | Ben Chrnelich, CFO, Symphony

CFO Thought Leader

CFO GUEST: Ben Chrnelich of Symphony CFOTL: Since the start of the year, chat GPT is everywhere, it seems, and it’s impacting everything. Can you tell us within your organization, whether it’s been part of the discussion whether whether people have come to you, and you’ve been surprised at the different conference tables, it’s been brought up and explored or talked about, I think you can share with us, Chrnelich: Whether it was a good perspective on our part, or pure luc

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How to pull off an amicable ‘business divorce’

CFO Dive

The halted Ernst & Young split highlights some of the challenges that all firms face when long-term business partners go their separate ways.

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Is SAP HANA an ERP?

Navigator SAP

SAP S4 HANA Cloud is a next-generation ERP package integrating management functions and helping businesses and organizations achieve their digital transformation objectives while keeping pace with an increasingly digitized economy. The system is an ERP software platform that integrates varied and complex data sets of any size with real-time analysis to provide expedited decision-making and precise insights into organizational performance and projections.

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Bombardier alum to replace retiring Air Canada CFO

CFO Dive

Air Canada CFO Amos Kazzaz, set to retire at the end of June, will be replaced by Bombardier alum John Di Bert.

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The Human Side of Finance: The Intersectionality of People, Culture, Adaptability, and Resilience

Speaker: Melissa Hurrington

Finance isn’t just about the numbers. It’s about the people behind them. In a world of constant disruption, resilient finance teams aren’t just operationally efficient. They are adaptable, engaged, and deeply connected to a strong organizational culture. Success lies at the intersection of people, culture, adaptability, and resilience. Finance leaders who master this balance will build teams that thrive through uncertainty and drive long-term business impact.

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Improving Your Field Services With the Right ERP Software

Navigator SAP

Field services organizations can leverage advanced ERP solutions to improve efficiency, responsiveness, and business intelligence, using a framework such as SAP S/4 HANA Cloud to manage data, reporting, analytics, and forecasting across their enterprise.

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Ex-Twitter CEO, CFO’s suit may find Delaware law favorable

CFO Dive

Chancery Court has a history favoring bylaw provisions requiring companies to pay executives’ legal costs even when they no longer work for the company.

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CPI = 5.0% (Time to Stop Raising Rates)

Barry Ritholtz

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.1 percent in March on a seasonally-adjusted basis, after increasing 0.4 percent in February. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 5.0 percent before seasonal adjustment. ( April 2023 ) As much as I want to jump up and down about 0.1% seasonally adjusted (after a 0.4% prior month), the big number is not so big: 5.0% A 5 handle is a huge development, even with the core remaining sligh

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Revolutionizing Advice – April 19th!

The Reformed Broker

A must-attend event for every RIA owner and practitioner, featuring Michael Kitces, Josh Brown, and Penny Phillips. Register here to secure your spot Michael Kitces is known as every financial advisor’s favorite financial advisor, with Kitces.com serving nearly 3,000 members and his Nerd’s Eye View blog reaching more than 200,000 unique visitors monthly.

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The ERP Features Most Important for Professional Services Companies

Navigator SAP

Efficient processes are important for professional services companies just as they are for every other type of business. One way that professional services firms drive this efficiency is through the use of an enterprise resource planning solution (ERP).

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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To drive digital transformation, ‘getting the data right’ is key

CFO Dive

Putting data skills and governance front and center for both leaders and employees is essential for CFOs to make digital transformation headway.

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Help Wanted!

Barry Ritholtz

Nonfarm payrolls came out Friday, and once again they impressed with their underlying strength: 236,000 new workers were added in March, with February NFP revised upward to 326,000, as the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. But there remains nearly two job opening for each unemployed worker, and despite rising wages, lots of decent positions remain unfilled.

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Book Review: A History of Financial Technology and Regulation

CFA Institute

Seth C. Oranburg highlights recent changes to the world of finance by exploring the role of technology within it.

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The Benefits of Implementing SAP HANA

Navigator SAP

SAP HANA is the database tech behind the SAP ecosystem and powers SAP S/4 HANA , the ERP suite. HANA provides the database platform that can manage, store, and structure huge data volumes and process data on demand.

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Smarter Card Solutions: Meeting the Challenges of Mid-Market Travel & Expense

Our 2025 Center Travel Survey is clear: as corporate travel increases, so does corporate credit cards distribution, and a rise in off-platform travel booking. This 61% rise causes various challenges: compliance, spend control, reporting problems, and a lack of visibility across organizations. To evolve with the ever-changing needs of travelers, decision-makers need a better solution.

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Small businesses see credit tightening: NFIB

CFO Dive

Banking system instability has triggered a pullback in credit and shaken confidence among small businesses, the NFIB found in a survey.

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MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia

Barry Ritholtz

 This week, we speak with Aswath Damodaran, who holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education at New York University’s Stern School of Business. A nine-time “Professor of the Year” winner at NYU, Damodaran teaches classes in corporate finance and valuation to MBA students. He has also written several books on corporate finance and equity valuation and has published widely in journals.

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Leading by example: Must have skills for new age CFOs

CFO News

Today's CFOs must possess a diverse set of skills to meet the demands of the job. This article explores these skills by the experiences and events of the chief financial officers of Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, AirBnB, Volkswagen, Tesla, Mastercard, Coca-Cola, as the author describes them through their experiences.

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What Is SAP HANA?

Navigator SAP

The SAP HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) database management system was first launched in 2010, while SAP S/4 HANA, introduced five years later, has become one of the most-used ERPs across the business sectors.

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Bringing AI to Finance: How to Leverage Technology for Efficiency and Control

Finance teams are balancing more than ever, but manual processes shouldn’t slow you down. In this ebook from BILL, discover how AI is transforming finance—automating AP, expense tracking, and document management to reduce errors, increase efficiency, and improve financial control. Learn how real companies are using AI-powered automation to streamline workflows, detect anomalies, and gain deeper insights.

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Accountants demand change or else

CFO Dive

Rethinking the future of accounting could persuade some of the over two-thirds of accountants who may want to leave the profession to stay put, according to FloQast’s CEO.

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Nudging Investors into Better 401k Behavior

Barry Ritholtz

Some encouraging news about people saving for retirement: A study by Vanguard Group found that “Automatic enrollment and the rise of target-date funds” are having a substantial and positive impact on retirement savers, in particular, on Millennials and Generation Z investors. They have seen a significant uptick in overall participation rate, which has increased from 62% in 2006 to 82% in 2021.

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How Different Monte Carlo Models Perform In The Real World: Assessing Quality Of Predictiveness In Retirement Income Forecasting Models

Nerd's Eye View

When planning for retirement, it’s effectively impossible to precisely forecast the performance and timing of future investment returns, which in turn makes it challenging to accurately predict a plan’s success or failure. And while Monte Carlo simulations have made it possible for advisors to create retirement projections that seem to have a reasonable basis in math and data, there has been limited research as to whether Monte Carlo models really perform as advertised – in oth

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Operationalising finance in the cloud

Future CFO

Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world to form a single state and consists of five main islands and 30 smaller archipelagos, totalling 18,110 islands and islets of which about 6,000 are inhabited. The AC Ventures report, Logistics Landscape in Indonesia , noted that the traditional supply chain in Indonesia is typically comprised of multiple layers prior to reaching retail and/or end customers (see Figure one).

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Say ‘Goodbye’ to Clunky Spreadsheets and Say ‘Hello’ to Month-End Automation

Technology is rapidly changing the way accountants perform and manage month-end activities. Spreadsheets, emails, and shared drives no longer need to slow you down. In under four weeks, your team can start reaping the benefits of month-end close automation by vastly reducing spreadsheets, cut down on reconciliation work, speed up the month-end close, and better manage your remote team.

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Why CFOs eyeing IPOs must prep now

CFO Dive

While many companies have put public listing plans on pause, CFOs would be wise to get ready now for when the IPO window reopens, Nick Theos writes.

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The changing paradigm of CFOs role in the new normal

CFO News

CFOs in the present time need to take the lead in bridging the gaps between business functions and ensure that the entire business is aligned in working towards the same strategic goal.

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Navan’s Modern Approach to Duty of Care

CFO Leadership

There are dozens of reasons to encourage employees to book travel and manage expenses through a single, centralized travel and expense platform. However, one aspect that is often overlooked is the duty of care. The definition of duty of care is an organization’s moral obligation and legal obligation to monitor the safety and well-being of its employees.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (April 15-16)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that on the heels of introducing its own self-clearing platform and acquiring fellow RIA custodian Shareholder Services Group, Altruist announced that it raised $112 million in a series D funding round, bringing its total funding to more than $290 million.

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Outsourcing Vs. In-House: The Ultimate Battle For Better Collections

Speaker: Susan Richards

Your past-due accounts are growing, cash flow is tightening, and the pressure is on. The big question: Do you handle the collections internally or outsource to experts? Both strategies come with advantages and risks - but which one delivers the best impact for your business? In this session we’ll dive deep into the in-house vs. outsourcing debate, examining cost-effectiveness, efficiency, compliance risks, and overall recovery success rates.