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Zillow Abandons Flips

Corporate Finance

On September 13, Zillow Chief Operating Officer Jeremy Wacksman stated that ''We, over time, believe this can be a service that is offered to the majority, to over 50 percent of the housing stock." Wacksman was referring to Zillow's foray into house flipping. Given Zillow's unique data, it should have inside data for the housing market. Instead, Zillow has decided to abandon house flipping , laying off 25 percent of the workforce.

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Business and Leadership Growth: What Got You Here (Still) Won’t Get You There

ProCFO Partners

Management and leadership styles need to change as a company grows. The management style that works best at the early stages of a company, might not work when the company starts to grow. There are different management styles that suit different phases of business growth. These changes in management style happen gradually and all at once. Early on, the CEO is the primary decision-maker and team members are encouraged to contribute ideas during meetings.

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Workforce planning is more than counting heads and costs

Anaplan

Your most valuable assets still walk out the door every day. And they have more choices than ever whether to return the next day. Finance, with help from HR, can help reveal the true costs.

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Executives: AI implementations improve team culture

Future CFO

More than 75% of managers reported that their AI implementations improved their team culture, said BCG recently when releasing results of a joint study by the company and MIT Sloan Management Review (MIT SMR). Those who reported improvements in team’s decision making and efficiency also saw improvements in collective learning (87%), team morale (79%), and collaboration (78%), the study indicates.

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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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Strategic Land Grab

Global Finance

Big Tech preps for going back to offices by scooping up commercial real estate.

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Sell-Side Due Diligence Report Checklist and Guide for M&A and Other Transactions

Embark With Us

A transaction on the horizon means it’s time to put your best foot forward. You have to dot all your I’s, cross those pesky T’s, and generally put an appealing but accurate sheen on your enterprise. After all, you’re not the only company that’s caught the attention of the M&A crowd, so it’s incumbent upon you to wow that investment group and convince them that it’s your company, not the ones down the street, that deserves the spotlight.

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Employee Spotlight: Maryam Hamidirad

FISPAN

In the November edition of FISPAN’s Employee Spotlight series, we’d like you to meet Maryam Hamidirad , the Head of Cybersecurity in Product. Maryam carries extensive experience in the information security and technology sectors, including her roles as a Software Engineer at SAP , a Senior Consultant at Deloitte , and a Professor at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT).

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The 3 Champions You Need On Your Power BI CoE Championship Team

Collectiv

Many enterprise leaders are eager to explore how BI tools foster better decision-making. However, even if some lead stakeholders are excited to embrace a data-driven culture, they may not consider the critical elements that go into maintaining a reliable single source of truth. Increasing user adoption and taking advantage of everything Power BI has to offer calls for a strong Power BI Center of Excellence (CoE).

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Chinese and World Stock Market Co-Movements: Two Findings

CFA Institute

How have correlations between the Shanghai Composite Index and the Hang Seng and their global counterparts developed over the last 25 years?

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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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What Is ESG and Why Is It Important?

VCFO

Understanding the Rise of ESG – What Business Leaders Need to Know. In just the past year, searches in Google for “ESG” have more than doubled. If you’re a business leader who has not yet become acquainted with this trending acronym, you should get to know it. For those already familiar with ESG, you’re likely wrestling with it in different ways – namely, how to approach it and what it means for your business.

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Financial Modelling for Business Lift Off

Creative CFP

When the ground starts to shake around Cape Canaveral, it is a matter of seconds before a rocket is launched and begins its journey into space. But leading up to this moment there have been months, if not years, of preparation and planning for every eventuality. Countless inputs are considered and risks mitigated by modelling various potential scenarios.

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Private Equity vs. Venture Capital: Which is Best for Your SaaS Firm?

Driven Insights

Venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) are among the most common sources of SaaS equity funding, but which is the right choice for your company? Understanding the unique advantages and drawbacks of each is a great place to start. While PE and VC share some common themes, there are also fundamental differences in their approaches, requirements, and goals.

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Book Review: The Caesars Palace Coup

CFA Institute

Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap provide a fascinating inside account of the distressed debt markets, including the strategies, the colorful personalities, and the complex relationships.

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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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Future of business 2030: ESG strategy is shaping the world of business

Anaplan

This first installment in our Future of Business 2030 series sets the stage for the biggest changes supply chains will need to make to keep their competitive edge.

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Financial Modelling for Business Lift Off

Creative CFP

When the ground starts to shake around Cape Canaveral, it is a matter of seconds before a rocket is launched and begins its journey into space. But leading up to this moment there have been months, if not years, of preparation and planning for every eventuality. Countless inputs are considered and risks mitigated by modelling various potential scenarios.

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Finance Teams: Stop Wasting Time on Manual Account Reconciliation & Automate

The Finance Weekly

Account reconciliation is the matching and validating of balances in the general ledger (GL) to internal and external sources or other independent calculations to accurately close month-ends and year-ends. Data sources used to reconcile and compensate account balances include sub-ledgers for HR and fixed assets, bank statements and schedules of payable and receivable accounts.

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Working with Graph in Oracle Analytics - Node Ranking

Qubix

Node Rank. Graphs describe relationships between various entities in a dataset. When defining graphs, then nodes correspond to entities and edges represent relationships between them. Node Ranking measures the importance of nodes in a graph.

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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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Future of business 2030: The impact of ESG on today’s supply chain

Anaplan

Supply chains will only excel in the future of business 2030 if they understand how to operationalize ESG strategies to face these key issues.

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Influencing Through Finance: Terrell Turner on the Being Planful Podcast

Planful

Our Being Planful podcast has become a great forum for conversations about the people, processes, and purpose of finance, accounting, and FP&A. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you can scan our growing list of episodes here and subscribe using your podcast app of choice. I was joined by Terrell Turner on a recent […]. The post Influencing Through Finance: Terrell Turner on the Being Planful Podcast appeared first on Planful.

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5 Reasons Why You Need A SaaS CFO

Michigan CFO

With the increasing popularity of software as a service (SaaS) products, new SaaS companies are popping up every day. But come funding time, many SaaS companies find in organizing their finances that their budgeting system is a mess. This is when it’s time to turn to a SaaS CFO. For most SaaS businesses looking at seed or series A funding, a SaaS CFO may seem like an out-of-reach luxury.

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Moody’s: Asian high-yield companies’ refinancing risks on the rise

Future CFO

Refinancing risks are set to increase for Asian high-yield companies, reflecting their credit quality deterioration, constrained funding access and slowing issuance, particularly from Chinese developers, said Moody’s recently. "Rated nonfinancial high-yield companies in Asia (excluding Japan) have US$286 billion of bonds maturing in 2022-26, with around 60% coming due within the first two years of the five-year period," said Stephanie Cheong, a Moody's Assistant Vice President and Analyst.

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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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Future of business 2030: Using ESG to build a supply chain ready for tomorrow

Anaplan

To thrive in 2030, supply chains need to move away from static, linear operations and embrace collaboration, transparency, and agility with ESG strategy and the right technology.

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How NPOs Can Master Financial Planning

The Finance Weekly

Many of the same financial issues that profit-seeking enterprises face, such as increasing revenue, managing audits, and dealing with compliance, encounter non-profit organizations (NPOs). By managing and planning finances, you can maximize the return of your activities. The word 'profit' clearly distinguishes NPOs (and associated organizations such as charities, foundations, and social enterprises) from profit-seeking businesses.

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How to Optimize your Financial Consolidation

Jedox Finance

Planning, budgeting and reporting isn’t the only function in finance that can be automated and consequently simplified by software solutions. Financial consolidation can also be optimized with the right software tool. Until now, creating consolidated financial statements and the associated tasks have monopolized valuable time and resources. Let’s take a closer look at how a [.

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Is Your Leadership Increasing Your People Risk?

CFO Leadership

People risk is a growing concern for organizations as issues including health and safety, talent retention and cybersecurity move up the boardroom agenda. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people risks have become central features in C-suite and boardroom discussions. The pandemic confirmed employer-sponsored health, risk protection and well-being plans as central pillars of the employee value proposition.

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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.