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8 CFO tips for pursuing M&A amid dealmaking 'fever'

CFO Dive

M&A will probably surge this year after a record 2021, and CFOs who want to prevail in the highly competitive market should follow several best practices.

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The Role Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Generation CFO

“The office of the CFO needs to change”, said Terrel A. Turner when he spoke with Christopher Argent, founder of Generation CFO, for the Business Talk Library podcast. CFOs and finance teams can no longer ignore the importance of technology in finance function. This in turn has affected the role of the CFO, which Chris and Terrel explored in this insightful session.

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Your Guide to The Corporate Financial Planning Process

Jedox Finance

How do you know at any time whether your company is solvent? How do you deal with financial bottlenecks? Is there a way to determine the future of your business? The answer to these questions and more: a solid financial plan. Table of Contents. What is the corporate financial planning process? What is the goal of corporate financial planning? The importance of financial planning for your company.

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Global C-Suiters Name Their Fears

Global Finance

In the Conference Board’s annual C-suite survey, executives express concerns about inflation, talent sourcing, and impediments to pandemic recovery, including possible recession in China and supply chain concerns in the US and Europe.

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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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Inflation 'skyrocketing' as C-suite worry: Conference Board

CFO Dive

Price pressure has surged into the top ranks of CFO concerns, drawing more attention than anytime in nearly nearly 40 years, surveys show.

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The Ultimate Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Process Guide

Anaplan

What is S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning)? S&OP, or sales & operations planning, is a monthly integrated business management process that empowers leadership to focus on key supply chain drivers, including sales, marketing, demand management, production, inventory management, and new product introduction. With an eye on financial and business impact, the goal of S&OP software […].

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Fama and French: The Five-Factor Model Revisited

CFA Institute

How well has Fama and French's five-factor model explained returns?

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Conductor's first female CFO pushes her own boundaries to join former WeWork company

CFO Dive

A self-described risk-averse person by nature, Conductor's Sherri Moyen says she's been inspired by Sheryl Sandberg and others to choose risk over comfort.

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Gemma Spurr, Transformation Manager at Superdry 

Generation CFO

Successful transformation does not have to mean a huge overhaul of processes, according to Gemma Spurr, Transformation Manager at clothing retailer Superdry. It can be just as meaningful when it’s a simple step forward. . “Transformation in a word suggests a big leap” says Gemma, “and that’s often what’s expected, which is sometimes where it fails.

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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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PFCFO’s recent top reads

Private Funds CFO

Recent top reads from our site.

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The S-Curve: Bending the J-Curve in Private Equity

CFA Institute

The J-curve narrative in private equity (PE) investments deserves a quiet obsolescence.

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Workiva's Klindt sees regulations as key to more ESG buy-in

CFO Dive

Anticipated SEC rules on ESG reporting could bring more firms off the sidelines.

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Deep Dive Live Webinar: What’s NEW in 2022? How to accelerate spend management

Generation CFO

Date: Tuesday 22nd February 2022. Time: 14:00 BST. The biggest challenges facing ambitious current or future CFOs can be narrowed down to three categories: people, data and digital. Generation CFO has made it their quest to make them the heroes of the next generation of sustainable, high-performing businesses. To do so, we bring you our monthly Deep Dive Live webinar.

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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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GP-Led transactions: The price is right!

Private Funds CFO

Raymond James's Sunaina Sinha Haldea discusses the best practice for GPs to discharge conflict of interest and ensure best pricing on their GP-led transactions.

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Book Review: Expectations Investing

CFA Institute

This revised and updated edition offers an insightful framework for identifying gaps between price and value.

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Accounting for In-Kind Donations to Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

In-kind donations help your nonprofit get the resources you need to carry out your programs without asking for more cash. For this reason, they’re an invaluable tool in your fundraising toolkit. But accounting for in-kind donations presents its own unique challenges. Almost any non-cash gift to your nonprofit can be considered an in-kind donation, but most of them fall into one of two categories: goods or services. .

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Embark’s Post-Merger Integration Checklist & Best Practices

Embark With Us

Imagine trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle on the back of a speeding flatbed truck. On a blustery day. And through rough terrain. Doesn’t bode well for your chances of successfully completing that puzzle, right?

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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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Ensuring best pricing on GP-led deals

Private Funds CFO

GP-led transactions: The price is right!

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Small Biz Cares Honors FocusCFO

Focus CFO

12 Days of Doing Good. Small Biz Cares Honors FocusCFO. FocusCFO was honored to be included in Small Biz Cares’, Twelve Days of Doing Good – 2021, highlighting our fundraising efforts to combat food scarcity. To read about the program click below. FocusCFO has a long history of supporting community causes. However, starting in 2020, the firm wanted to respond to challenges made worse by the worldwide pandemic.

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FISPAN and the Future of Data

FISPAN

How FISPAN sees the importance of data and how to grow beyond the point of data aggregation. How data will be delivered and received from FISPAN and the third-party partners we work with. Financial institutions (FIs) are under pressure to drive innovation in financial data access for the commercial banking space. Banking customers are seeking more control over their banking data than ever before.

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5 + 5 = 10 Tips CFOs Can Use to Put AI in Finance to Work Today

Planful

In 2018, McKinsey reported that CFOs who didn’t adopt digital innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) were in danger of falling behind their counterparts in IT and marketing. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit two years later, it forced businesses to prioritize digital to stay afloat. By one estimate from McKinsey, just the first 9 months of […].

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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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Crestline raises $1bn for fund finance

Private Funds CFO

Portfolio Financing Fund II does preferred equity- and NAV-based lending deals for funds in the private equity, real estate and infrastructure markets.

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How to Use a Headcount Planning Model to Determine Your Next Office Location

Onplan

To date, you’ve built a 30-person team colocated with you in California, prioritizing speed over cost efficiency, but now it’s time to consider whether to keep that approach, or start to build out a back office in a lower cost geography. But how do you weigh the headcount cost of each option? In this post, we’ll walk you step-by-step through how to think about this.

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UK to discuss global minimum tax for multinational groups

Accountancy Today

The UK government has published a consultation seeking views for how a worldwide 15% minimum corporation tax should be domestically implemented. It revealed more than 130 countries signed up to a new global minimum tax framework in October 2021, after G7 agreed in principle during the UK’s presidency. The historic framework will ensure large international firms pay at least 15% tax rate on profits in each country in which they operate, helping to tackle avoidance and ensure a more level pl

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Capitec co-founder and CFO retires

CFO Talks

From BusinessTech : Capitec has announced that one of its co-founders and chief financial officer, André du Plessis, will retire from the group at the end of June 2022. Du Plessis has been part of Capitec for 22 years, having joined in 2000 as a co-founding member of the bank, with other partners including billionaire Michiel le Roux. He was appointed financial director in 2002 and has also served as the chief financial officer for the group.

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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.