Sat.Nov 16, 2024 - Fri.Nov 22, 2024

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When Does a Business Need a CFO?

CFO Selections

There is no one better positioned to create sustainable financial success inside a business than the CFO. A CFO takes their financial expertise and channels it into a strategic leadership role to create financial success for the company and its stakeholders. As such, their responsibilities include: budgeting and forecasting, managing mergers or acquisitions, and handling compliance issues.

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Curb your debts to prepare for the next pandemic, Raghuram Rajan tells US

CFO News

Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has warned against high public debt. He says countries like the US are vulnerable to future crises. Rajan suggests reducing debt to create a buffer. He spoke at the Bancor prize award ceremony in Rome. He also advocated for reforming global institutions and increasing trade.

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Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Budgeting: Which Approach Will Supercharge Your Financial Planning?

Lime Light

Managing a company's budget can be quite like juggling a financial puzzle. Two popular approaches exist when it comes to crafting a budget: top-down budgeting and bottom-up budgeting.

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Seeking Best Execution: Understanding The SEC’s Expectations For Advisors To Deliver Best Outcomes For Clients

Nerd's Eye View

Investment advisers are fiduciaries that owe a duty of care and loyalty to their clients. One component of this duty of care is an obligation to seek best execution of client securities transactions. While this requirement might sound relatively straightforward, the lack of a single definition for what this duty actually requires can make it challenging for advisers seeking to understand precisely what it means to comply with this responsibility.

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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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Top Audit Readiness Challenges and How to Overcome Them

E78 Partners

Audit season presents a set of unique challenges for private equity-backed companies, particularly those that must balance the expectations of investors with the demands of compliance. Here are four of the most common audit preparation obstacles and practical ways to overcome them, based on client experience supporting finance teams through efficient and streamlined audits.

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Cross-Listed Companies, Navigating International Reporting Standards 

CFO Talks

Cross-Listed Companies, Navigating International Reporting Standards You are running a business that’s performing well in South Africa. The next logical step might be to take your company to international markets by listing on a foreign stock exchange. Cross-listing opens doors to new opportunities—global investors, more capital, and enhanced brand recognition.

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EY: financial controllers need support to harness technology

Future CFO

Although there is clear recognition that the role of the financial controller is in flux, and despite the adoption of data insights and artificial intelligence, the finance professionals need more support to fully harness the power of emerging technologies. This is the findings of a recent study by EY, which polled more than 1,200 financial controllers across 28 countries and territories, revealing that only 28% of respondents ranked searching for opportunities to use technology as one of the to

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CFO Mark Partin on Building BlackLine’s Revenue Ops from the Ground Up

CFO Thought Leader

In this special Mentor Plus video feature, BlackLine CFO Mark Partin shares the transformative journey of building a world-class Sales Ops organization. Tasked with creating the function from scratch nearly a decade ago, Partin highlights key milestones, from aligning finance with sales and marketing to establishing a unified revenue operations model that supports BlackLine’s rapid growth.

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Walmart CFO keeps eye on prices, tariffs

CFO Dive

Walmart is looking to continue to attract high-income consumers with the right price mix, even as CFO John Rainey anticipates price hikes in the face of potential tariffs.

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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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Templated EDI for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Navigator SAP

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is an important technology for creating a smooth and automated data flow between your business and your partners, both suppliers and sellers. Configuring an EDI connection is not always simple, however, which is where EDI templates come in. EDI is the process of electronically exchanging business data that was traditionally handled with paper.

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Members’ Profile: Anne-Marie de Bruin 

CFO Talks

Members’ Profile: Anne-Marie de Bruin In this edition of CFO Club Africa’s Members Spotlight, we are introducing Anne-Marie de Bruin, a highly experienced finance professional and the freelance Financial Manager at AM Cross Country Consulting. With over two decades of expertise and a focus on strategic financial solutions, Anne-Marie has been making a global impact through her consultancy work.

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#FASuccess Ep 412: 3X’ing The Business With No More Than 50 Great Clients By Hyperfocusing On Who You Can Add The Most Value For, With Anjali Jariwala

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 412th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Anjali Jariwala. Anjali is the Founder of FIT Advisors, an RIA based in Torrance, California (but works virtually with clients nationwide) and oversees $65 million in assets under management for 45 client households. What's unique about Anjali, though, is how she has tripled her annual revenue from $250,000 to $750,000 during the past 6 years, while only adding a net of 10 cli

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CFOs zero in on AI ‘auditability’ for 2025: Visual Lease

CFO Dive

CFOs are keeping their focus on finding AI tools with “some good bit of traceability” in the face of a rising tide of potential vendors, Visual Lease’s Amie Durr said.

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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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CFOs top priorities in 2025: metrics, analytics, reporting

Future CFO

Chief financial officers and finance leaders rated metrics, analytics and reporting as their top focus areas for the year coming, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. This findings of the October 2024 survey , which polled 251 CFOs, reflect an emphasis on delivering insight to improve business performance, as CFOs showed that finance transformation ranks much lower as a priority for them in 2025.

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Strategic Alliances: Creating Value Through Partnership 

CFO Talks

Strategic Alliances: Creating Value Through Partnership “Two heads are better than one”—a cliché in conversation but a powerful truth in business. In a competitive market, the most successful companies don’t just compete—they collaborate. Strategic alliances, where businesses join forces to share resources, expertise, and market opportunities, are transforming industries worldwide.

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Highlights From The Advise AI Conference 2024

Nerd's Eye View

In recent years, AI has become an increasingly common feature in advisor technology. The possibilities at the intersection of AI and financial advice are exciting – faster processes, better connections, less time on ‘busy work’ – but also come with uncertainty about the future of the field. What might the field of financial advice even look like in 10 years?

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KPMG plans $100M Google Cloud investment

CFO Dive

The move expands an existing alliance as KPMG looks to bolster its consulting services, including by developing advanced generative AI agents.

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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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Southeast Asia's IPO market poised for rebound in 2025

Future CFO

The future of the initial public offering (IPO) market in the Southeast Asian region comes with expected interest rate cuts alongside easing inflation may create a more favourable environment for IPOs in the years ahead, according to Deloitte. "Southeast Asia’s strong consumer base, growing middle class, and strategic importance in sectors like real estate, healthcare, and renewable energy remain attractive to investors," says Hwee Ling Tay , accounting & reporting assurance leader at Deloit

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Thursday’s 10-year TIPS auction will benefit from surge in real yields

Tips Watch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Reality is beginning to settle in on the U.S. bond market.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (November 23–24)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that amidst a rare change in leadership at Charles Schwab, the outgoing and incoming CEOs hinted at relatively minor changes during remarks for advisors at its annual IMPACT conference this week, including an increased focus on lending services for high-net-worth clients and a desire to expand direct access to cryptoassets.

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C-suites vie for shrinking pool of experienced CFOs: Russell Reynolds

CFO Dive

There’s a growing “agnosticism” surrounding the age of finance chiefs as the supply of experienced CFOs grows more constricted, Russell Reynolds’ Jenna Fisher said.

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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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India's auto parts industry poised to cross $80 bn revenue in 2024-25

CFO News

The revenue of India's automotive components industry is expected to cross $80.1 billion in FY2025 while exports have already touched $21.2 billion, according to B2B risk management consultancy Rubix Data Sciences.

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Coming March 18: “How Not To Invest”

Barry Ritholtz

Well, that was a lot more fun than I expected! I submitted the final manuscript for my new book, How Not to Invest , last week. The final edit will involve some back-and-forth, but the writing is finished. I recall “ Bailout Nation ” as more of a slog, in part because so much of it happened in real-time. I constantly rewrote entire chapters as various companies blew up.

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10-year TIPS reopening auction gets real yield of 2.071%

Tips Watch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The Treasury’s reopening auction of a 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security — CUSIP 91282CLE9 — generated a real yield to maturity of 2.

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Spirit Airlines cleared $5.4M in retention awards before bankruptcy

CFO Dive

The budget airline’s CEO will receive a $3.8 million retention payment while its CFO will get $175,000, according to an SEC filing.

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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.