Sat.Nov 13, 2021 - Fri.Nov 19, 2021

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A Cold Secondary Stock Offering

Corporate Finance

You can own a sports team. The Green Bay Packers are offering 300,000 shares of stock at a price of $300 per share.There are currently a little over 5 million shares of the Packers outstanding. Of course, you will never receive a dividend and have no say in the operations of the Packers. Since you are now a part of of an NFL franchise, there are rules : You cannot own another NFL franchise, you can't act as an agent for any NFL player, you can't publicly criticize the NFL, its management, coache

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The 8 Worst Mistakes in Digital Transformation

The Finance Weekly

Digital transformation has been the central development of the modern workforce for years. All organizations have had to adapt to the development of , powerful technological innovations in today’s corporate landscape in some form or another. Finance professionals in particular have had their work processes changed by digital transformation. Unfortunately, most fail to effectively do this, and lag behind the competition.

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Developing a data strategy for business agility

Future CFO

With a surge in big data, companies face a growing challenge to make their business data-driven. Many have departments that operate in silos with little or almost no unified data strategy. Seventy per cent of companies do not have a well-articulated data strategy. Over 60% do not manage data as a business asset. While 58.8% compete on analytics, according to a 2021 NewVantage Partners Big Data and AI Executive Survey.

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Why are your employees working conditions important when preparing your business for sale?

One to One

The post Why are your employees working conditions important when preparing your business for sale? appeared first on ONEtoONE Corporate Finance.

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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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Anaplan on AWS: Intelligent innovation scales alongside revolutionary planning

Anaplan

Business leaders can expand their planning reach, accelerating decision making and solving business complexities.

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Build a data foundation to fuel frictionless finance

Future CFO

Organizations across industries and around the world are looking to accelerate their digital transformation efforts post-pandemic to better meet the challenges of the future. The finance function is accelerating a shift that was already underway, with a focus on data—in terms of collection, access, and analysis—to provide even greater value to the business.

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The Best Power BI Visuals for Financial Reporting

Collectiv

The most valuable indicators of the financial health and position of an organization are the metrics that are tracked in financial statements—Balance Sheets, Profit and Loss Statements, Cash Flow Statements, Account Receivables, and more. Today, you’re managing the company well. But, think about how much more you could do if you added interactive and visualization technology like Power BI.

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Read the eBook: 5 Trends Impacting Finance and Accounting in 2022

Planful

The pandemic changed everything. Well, reflecting back, that sure seems like an understatement. But as we tentatively emerge from nearly two years of unpredictable and fast-changing circumstances, several pandemic-fueled business trends seem clearly destined to become cemented into the post-pandemic status quo. Read the eBook, 5 Global Trends Changing Finance and Accounting Teams, to understand […].

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Key Elements of a Merger & Acquisition Integration Plan

VCFO

Merger & Acquisition Integration Plans. The M&A term sheet has been negotiated, due diligence has been completed and the valuation plus the timing has been agreed upon by both sides. The transaction documents are almost through their first iteration of turns by the attorneys. In your mind, the hard work has been done and you need to negotiate the finer points of the legal docs.

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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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Finance’s key role in building the data-driven enterprise

Future CFO

Why fix what ain’t broken? For many finance functions in Asia, workflows are very manual driven. Manual data entry and processes, paper receipts, and spreadsheets are still how most business gets done, and advanced digital tools are unknown or rarely used. Many finance teams are nowhere near able to declare themselves digital-ready. They definitely fall far short of data and analytics maturity, despite the rhetoric and chatter around the imperative of having a digital finance function.

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RG welcomes new corporate finance executive

Accountancy Today

RG Corporate Finance (RG) has welcomed Adam Tindale to its team as a corporate finance executive. Tindale began his career with Newcastle-headquartered Ryecroft Glenton as an audit and accounts assistant, progressing to audit and accounts senior, before being appointed as a corporate finance executive in October 2021. He spent time on secondment with several of Ryecroft Glenton’s six service lines, including corporate finance, before achieving an accountancy qualification with the Association of

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Get Your Financial House in Order

Commercial Credit Group

The end of the year is upon us and tax season is just around the corner. Now is a great time to review some of the, often overlooked, business expenses that may seem mundane and insignificant, but left unchecked can be costing your company thousands of dollars.

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Sales Tax for CBD

CFO Share

As cannabis business, you want to know, are CBD products taxable? The answer: yes. Since the 2018 South Dakota vs Wayfair, Inc ruling, the tax code declares that sales tax needs to be collected by the retailer if they are selling to another state, regardless of physical presence. The difficult part is determining how much. A product that was federally illegal a few short years ago, the sale of hemp products is expected to generate $20 billion in sales by 2024.

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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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Mid-market firms eager to embrace sustainability but struggle to overcome barriers

Future CFO

More than six out of 10 mid-market businesses (62%) now believe that sustainability is just as important or more important than financial success, said Grant Thornton when releasing its latest International Business Report (IBR). Environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials are seen as a competitive advantage for much of the mid-market — reflecting the expectations of their client bases, the firm pointed out. .

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Dustin Williamson Joins vcfo as Houston Managing Director

VCFO

vcfo is pleased to announce the addition of Dustin Williamson to the team as Houston Managing Director. With more than 25 years of financial and management experience, he will now be mentoring and empowering our team of finance and HR consultants, spearheading our quality program, and driving strategic growth in the area. Highly analytical and forward-thinking, Dustin’s areas of expertise include structured finance, strategic planning, valuations, turnarounds, traditional and unconventional inve

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Top 5 Benefits of Cloud FP&A Over Traditional Spreadsheets

Lime Light

Growing companies are always looking for new ways to innovate, cut costs and expand. Sometimes, one of the best ways to innovate is to change the tools with which one conducts business. Spreadsheet software, ubiquitous in the form of Microsoft Excel, is a common financial tool used by most major organizations who seem to have little problem with its use.

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The 5 S&OP Maturity Levels – Where do you stand and how do you get to the next level?

Jedox Finance

What does maximum maturity mean in the 5-step Gartner Sales & Operations Model and how do you get there? Specialist smartPM.solutions has the answer and shares their solution with you in this article. Improving and optimizing company processes requires you to evaluate your status quo. In the following, we describe different maturity levels (see Figure 1) and ask you to consider which stage best aligns with the current status of your S&OP company processes.

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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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Consumer behaviours: Opting to live with less and re-evaluate purchases

Future CFO

While consumer behaviours have changed — as reflected in consumers' choice of living with less and re-evaluating purchases, businesses need to rethink their engagement strategies and practices. Some of the newly adopted consumer behaviours during the pandemic — as tracked by the EY Future Consumer Index since April 2020 — have become embedded within the consumer mindset, said EY recently when releasing the index based on a survey of 16,000 consumers.

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What’s the 2022 economic confidence level?

CFO Strategic Partners

Challenges are expected to continue As 2022 quickly approaches, there are still many challenges and uncertainty organizations continue to face. In the past year, we’ve seen the rise of the “Great Resignation” lead to an employee shortage. Supply chain challenges have continued and now the pandemic assistance for organizations has expired. With preparation for 2022 underway, CFO Strategic Partners has been hearing whispers of uncertainty.

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5 Things To Consider When Hiring a Creative Fractional CFO

Adam Kae

By Katelyn Sieber Congratulations! Your company has grown to the point where the guidance of a Fractional CFO can, well, guide you. Hiring a Fractional CFO, however, is not a decision to be taken lightly. Just with any leading executive position, a Fractional CFO’s decisions can greatly affect the company for years to come. You need to look for the right talent.

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Automatic trend analysis drives better business performance

Anaplan

Understanding hidden patterns in your historic data can help you plan better for the future. See how trend analysis can improve your planning and help you improve business performance in the future.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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CFO focus 2022: Improve flexibility of budgeting and forecasting

Future CFO

The top CFO focus for 2022 is improving the flexibility of budgeting and forecasting, according to a September 2021 survey of 251 CFOs and other finance leaders by Gartner. While 72% of respondents indicated that as the top CFO focus, the next most common CFO focus areas next year will be initiatives to reallocate capital based on changing demands (60%) and redefine the employee value proposition in a hybrid environment (58%).

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Working with Graph in Oracle Analytics - Subgraph, Shortest Path, Clusters

Qubix

In my previous post , I described, in a bit more detail, how to perform graph analysis in the case of Node Ranking. Basically, the key tool that you can use in Oracle Analytics is Data Flows. Graph Analytics step in Data Flows enables users to perform four graph analytics operations. Besides Node Ranking these are Sub Graph , Clusters and Shortest Path.

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Benefits of a Virtual CFO

Michigan CFO

During your time as a small business owner, you may have heard the term “virtual CFO” come up in your research or in funding rounds. There are many benefits of a virtual CFO, but for this article, we have chosen our top ten. What Does a Virtual CFO Do? Before we begin listing virtual CFO benefits, it’s worthwhile reviewing what a virtual CFO actually does for your business.

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Tell the Secret Story Behind the Numbers with Cohort Analysis [GUIDE]

Cube Software

We can all agree that discovering better insights is a good thing. And everybody wants to be better at forecasting. (Of course, how you present your insights and forecasts also matters.). In this article, you'll learn about a tactic that does all those things: cohort analysis. It's even better than that, actually: it tells you more about how specific groups of your customers behave.

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Solve Your Firm's Automation Complexities Once and For All

Speaker: Mark Stovel

When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.