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3 ways CFOs can utilize ERP as recession hedge

CFO Dive

Strong enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can help businesses prepare to survive an impending and potentially inevitable recession.

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How Can an ERP System Help a Business?

Navigator SAP

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is designed to help businesses organize their operations and centralize their data. They can help companies improve their internal workflows and achieve better results, be it in the form of increased sales and deals, better customer service, or more business opportunities.

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72: What Is Commercial Paper (Capital)?

Strategic Treasurer

Session 72. Coffee Break Session: What Is Commercial Paper (Capital)? What is commercial paper in terms of capital? Coffee Break Session Host Jason Campbell catches up with Strategic Treasurer’s Senior Advisor Paul Galloway to discuss commercial paper as it relates to raising capital. They talk about who issues commercial paper, how it’s used, and the issuing limitations.

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Collapse in Prospective Home Buyer Traffic

Barry Ritholtz

At the beginning of each quarter, I prepare a short but in-depth conference call for RWM clients. The team & I put together the most revealing and informative slides. In that half hour, I blow through ~40 slides that capture and explain what is going on. About a quarter of the October 2022 slides were focused on real estate. This is atypical. The reason we emphasized real estate this Q is that housing is very often where we see FOMC policy having its most immediate effect.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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PCAOB hits audit partner with record $150K penalty

CFO Dive

The fine is the largest civil penalty levied against an individual by the federal audit watchdog since it was established in 2002.

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Tricks of the Private Equity Trade, Part 2: Leverage

CFA Institute

The essence of maximizing the internal rate of return (IRR) lies in the total amount of leverage contracted to finance a transaction.

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AI Steve Jobs interviewed by AI Joe Rogan

Barry Ritholtz

This is pretty mind-blowing: a podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence where Joe Rogan interviews Steve Jobs. One of the most important women in Apple’s history never worked for Apple Margot Comstock took her winnings from a TV game show and bought a computer. It led to a magazine, which turned into a major hub for the nascent community of developers and fans of one of the most important computers in history.

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CFOs can cut supply chain costs with outsourcing, automation

CFO Dive

Making strategic supply chain decisions can help CFOs maintain a critical balance between cutting costs and spurring growth.

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UBIX Takes SAP Business ByDesign Analytics to the Power of AI - Webinar

Navigator SAP

What is UBIX? UBIX is an Advanced Analytics and AI Platform designed for the business user. The general-purpose platform can address any number of use cases from the front office to the back office, such as customer analytics, financial analytics, HR analytics, demand forecasting, procurement, and more.

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Profit in the Details: Rethinking Spend for Monumental Impact

Speaker: Aaron Berson

Managing spend is more than a cost cutting exercise – it's a pathway to smarter decisions that unlock efficiency and drive growth. By understanding and refining the spending process, financial leaders can empower their organizations to achieve more with less. Explore the art of balancing financial control with operational growth. From uncovering hidden inefficiencies to designing workflows that scale your business, we’ll share strategies to align your organization’s spending with its strategic g

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Take Back Your Time With Outsourced Accounting

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If your weeks are dragging on and long hours bleed into the weekend, take a minute to reflect. Recognize all of the hard work, time, and effort you’ve put into your business, and be prepared to make some changes to continue to grow, scale, and evolve. No one wants to be stuck in the office late on Friday or feel like there’s so much more to do on the weekend.

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Global Real Estate Bubble Index

Barry Ritholtz

Which cities have the greatest housing bubble risk? That is the basis of this very interesting graphic from UBS. The full PDF is well worth your time to peruse through – you can find it here: UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index. Source : UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2022. The post Global Real Estate Bubble Index appeared first on The Big Picture.

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Supply chain partnerships key for the modern CFO

CFO Dive

Between advancing ESG reporting requirements and the modernizing CFO seat, developing strong supply chain partners is key for CFOs to find and utilize the right data.

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Challenges of Implementing ERP in a Midsize Business

Navigator SAP

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are designed to help businesses manage their resources more efficiently. However, implementing an ERP can be a daunting task for any business—especially a midsize company with fewer resources and less specialized expertise than a large organization.

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Navigating Bleisure Travel: A Guide for Mid-Sized Companies

Bleisure travel — where employees combine work and leisure — has been around since the advent of corporate travel and is here to stay. Successful bleisure policies strike a balance between employee preferences and company goals — workers report a 64% improvement in work-life balance, while companies benefit from reduced travel costs and increased workforce innovation.

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This Week on TRB

The Reformed Broker

Hey guys, didn’t get a chance to do any writing this week but we did two really good shows on the YouTube / podcast front I wanted to make sure you don’t miss… And if you haven’t subscribed yet, don’t wait. Check it out below or wherever fine podcasts are played. . The post This Week on TRB appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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What’s Ailing Tesla’s Stock?

Barry Ritholtz

US equity markets are off about 25% YTD; Tech-heavy Nasdaq is off 32%; But the poster child for the past few years has been Tesla (TSLA), which is down 38.5% YTD and is 46.9% off of its 2021 highs. From a fundamental perspective, Tesla is doing quite well: In the third quarter, Tesla sold a record 343,000 vehicles. They also have an advantage over traditional automakers: An ability to quickly reprogram the firmware of chips.

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Companies brace for downturn amid high inflation: Fed

CFO Dive

Persistent cost pressures and supply chain bottlenecks are intensifying recession fears at U.S. companies, the Federal Reserve said.

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What Is SAP Business ByDesign’s ERP System?

Navigator SAP

If you're in the market for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, you already know how an ERP can help a business. You may also come across SAP Business ByDesign , which is a popular ERP tool for small to midsize companies with annual revenue between $25 million and $500 million.

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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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Financial Planning for 2023 and Beyond: Steps to Nail Your Three Year Strategic Plan with Modern FP&A

Centage

Individuals and businesses alike have endured extreme stress in recent years, and there’s no sign of the situation improving any time soon. Along with the continuing impact of the COVID pandemic, companies are currently dealing with the effects of Russia’s war on Ukraine, sky-high inflation, supply chain shortages, and rising interest rates, among other challenges.

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Sussing Out Probabilities

Barry Ritholtz

Why are markets rallying and/or falling every other day? They make gains only to give them back, or they sell off hard only to subsequently regain the losses. I suspect it is because the dispersion of likely future outcomes is so unusually wide. Meaning, what investors imagine as the most likely outcomes are all over the map. Perhaps a weather analogy may help explain : Since its October, let’s imagine a typical weather report: 80% chance of sunshine, with a slight chance of showers overni

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Upskilling helps CFOs battle cyber, workforce retention challenges

CFO Dive

Investing to upskill existing employees while also hiring skilled talent where needed could help CFOs address cybersecurity and talent retention issues.

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Why Is ERP So Expensive?

Navigator SAP

Many businesses miss out on the benefits of enterprise resource planning (ERP) because of the system’s price tag. It costs an average of $30,000 for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which not many companies are willing to spend. But if you consider how an ERP system can help a business , the cost is justified because you’re employing an all-in-one, centralized, and customized system that will organize your operations, make your teams work more efficiently and bring you better business result

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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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Get ready: This week’s 5-year TIPS auction is a ‘unicorn’

Tips Watch

Rarely seen: High real yield, high coupon rate, discount to par value. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The U.S. Treasury on Thursday will offer $21 billion in a new 5-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security, CUSIP 91282CFR7.

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MiB: Tom Rampulla, Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services Director

Barry Ritholtz

This week, we speak with Thomas Rampulla, managing director of Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services. The division provides investments, services, education and research to more than 1,000 financial advisory firms representing more than $3 trillion in assets. Rampulla has held a variety of management positions at Vanguard since he joined in 1988.

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ESG backlash unlikely to derail SEC climate risk rule

CFO Dive

SEC Chair Gary Gensler faces growing resistance to the agency’s proposal that companies provide detailed disclosures on carbon emissions.

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Webinar: Stages of Cash Forecasting: Improving the Process, Tightening Your Accuracy | November 8

Strategic Treasurer

Stages of Cash Forecasting: Improving the Process, Tightening Your Accuracy. November 8 | 11:00 AM EST. Register Now. Date. Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Time. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST. Where. This is an online event. Speakers. Craig Jeffery, Strategic Treasurer. Jon Paquette, TIS. Sponsored By. Hosted By. 1.2 CTP and FP&A re-certification credits will be given for attendance to this live webinar.

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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.