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Volkswagen Clawback

Corporate Finance

Volkswagen's Dieselgate scandal has been ongoing for the past five years. Recently, former CEO Martin Winterkorn has agreed to pay the company €11.2 million ($13.7 million) in a clawback. Although Winterkorn was not found to be responsible for the development of the defeat device, he was in a meeting when the defeat device was discussed. In his role as CEO, he breached his duties by not investigating the defeat device and its possible use.

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Anaplan on Google Cloud: Enterprise planning with even more choice and flexibility

Anaplan

Enterprise planning looks and operates differently for every business despite the fact that end goals are similar: cutting costs, optimizing resources, and reducing processes while simultaneously increasing security, tightening compliance, and enhancing agility. Despite taking different routes to get from point A to point B, the common denominator is this: Successful, scalable planning is underpinned […].

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Accelerate Finance & Accounting (Virtually) at Perform 2021 – Register For Free Today

Planful

Join us for an engaging virtual experience with exciting keynotes, major product announcements, tips and tricks, and plenty of virtual fun. We’re accelerating as we look towards the end of 2021, even as our lives and businesses remain as unpredictable as ever. Now is not the time to pause; it’s time to move forward, recognize […]. The post Accelerate Finance & Accounting (Virtually) at Perform 2021 – Register For Free Today appeared first on Planful.

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The Future of AI and Big Data: Three Concepts

CFA Institute

Andrew Lo and Ajay Agrawal explore how biases, regulations, and economics and wealth distribution will shape the future of fintech.

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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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Why CFOs should cash in on “data stewardship”

Future CFO

Most businesses didn’t have someone in charge of all their data – ensuring data is valid, accurate, reliable, and available, or asking if it’s being reported objectively and responsibly. Finance teams have long relied on good data, relating to financial performance or results. Now, with all these external factors pressing for good data too, it’s time for the Finance function to step up.

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How to Strengthen your Capital Allocation Model Post Pandemic

Planful

COVID-19 left many leaders uncertain about their capital allocation model. In fact, 56% of CFOs worldwide said, “their capital allocation strategy needs to be completely rethought” following the pandemic. After an unexpected crisis like COVID-19, it’s tempting to approach capital allocation decisions as quick fixes. Your expenditures are based on the short-term fires you need […].

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Welcome Cities of Saints & Oaks! CFO Leadership Council Announces Two New Chapters

CFO Leadership

The CFO Leadership Council Welcomes Salt Lake City & Raleigh. Time to cut the ribbon! The CFO Leadership Council proudly welcomes two new chapters to our community – Raleigh (City of Oaks) and Salt Lake City (City of Saints)! For those counting, that now makes 28 chapters across North America! Now more than ever, as these unprecedented challenges continue and the CFO role evolves, finance leaders need a trusted network of their peers to lean on.

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Why accountants should be interested in acquiring basic coding skills

Future CFO

More than half of surveyed accountants (57%) had no knowledge of coding but many of them are interested in acquiring this skill, said ACCA recently when releasing results of a survey. According to the accountancy body, 40% of the 992 ACCA members surveyed in November 2020 are interested in learning how to code. “Not every professional accountant may need to code, but even a basic understanding can add value to their organisations, help to differentiate themselves and open future career opportuni

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Quality Losses Matter More to Investors Than Quality Gains

CFA Institute

How does the stock market collectively respond to quality losses versus quality gains?

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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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How to Strengthen your Capital Allocation Model Post Pandemic

Planful

COVID-19 left many leaders uncertain about their capital allocation model. In fact, 56% of CFOs worldwide said, “their capital allocation strategy needs to be completely rethought” following the pandemic. After an unexpected crisis like COVID-19, it’s tempting to approach capital allocation decisions as quick fixes. Your expenditures are based on the short-term fires you need to put out.

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Michael Braude – Economic Update Monthly #23 | Episode 192

Treasury Talent

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Today’s episode is a monthly economic forecast for Treasurers from our regular guest, Michael Braude. He is going to share what’s happening in the commodities, risk and bond markets amid this rapidly changing world. . In this episode we discuss: . Current movements in the bond markets. . Updates on the currency markets. .

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IMF maintains its global growth forecast of 6%

Future CFO

The IMF maintains its global growth forecast of 6% in 2021 and 4.9%in 2022. The 2021 global forecast is unchanged from IMF’s April 2021 World Economic Outllook but with offsetting revisions, the fund noted, adding that differences in recovery among economies grow more uneven. While prospects for emerging market and developing economies have been marked down for 2021, especially for Emerging Asia, the forecast for advanced economies is revised up, IMF said, adding that these revisions reflect pan

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Animal Pandemics: An Overlooked Risk?

CFA Institute

When an animal pandemic hits, the results for investors are not pretty.

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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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Volkswagen Clawback

Essentials of Corporate Finance

Volkswagen's Dieselgate scandal has been ongoing for the past five years. Recently, former CEO Martin Winterkorn has agreed to pay the company €11.2 million ($13.7 million) in a clawback. Although Winterkorn was not found to be responsible for the development of the defeat device, he was in a meeting when the defeat device was discussed. In his role as CEO, he breached his duties by not investigating the defeat device and its possible use.

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Moody’s: Credit trends stabilising for Asia's high-yield companies

Future CFO

Moody's said recently that its proprietary indicators for the second quarter of 2021 have continued to improve, pointing to stabilising credit fundamentals as companies emerge from pandemic difficulties, although headwinds remain for weakly-positioned companies. Most of our proprietary indicators have improved to similar readings prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, Annalisa Di Chiara, a Moody's Senior Vice President pointed out.

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Meopta begins transformation with AP automation

Future CFO

Headquartered in Prerov in the Czech Republic and operating manufacturing facilities in the Czech Republic and the United States, Meopta has a rich tradition of developing, manufacturing and assembling world-class optical, optomechanical and optoelectronic products. As an international business, the company has seen invoice volumes growing year on year.

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CFO directive: resetting the table stakes of business transformation

Future CFO

What constitutes elements of a digital transformation initiative? For some, it is modernising a company’s multiple touchpoints, so these are aligned with customer expectations. For others, it is about transforming the business model. Still, for others, it is about upgrading internal processes so that the business is more efficient, responsive, or resilient to changing market dynamics.

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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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Survey: Only 19% of CFOs have automated nearly all finance processes

Future CFO

Only 19% of CFOs have automated nearly all their finance processes and are currently handling financial reporting digitally, said Workday recently when releasing results of a survey of more than 260 global CFOs. . With the majority of organisations in the midst of digital transformation, CFOs also reported gaps in their data, ultimately affecting performance over the past year, the technology company noted. .

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Flipping the odds of digital transformation: Intro

Future CFO

There are six critical success factors that can reverse the odds of digital transformation success from 30% to 80%. The post Flipping the odds of digital transformation: Intro appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Businesses struggle to get to grips with climate risk disclosures

Future CFO

Businesses around the world are struggling to manage climate risk disclosures and should consider taking urgent action to meet the requirements and expectations of regulators and investors, said EY recently when releasing its Global Climate Risk Barometer report. The report is based on an examination of the efforts made by 1,100 companies across 42 countries to publish their climate-related risks, based on the recommendations set by the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TFCD), E