Sat.Jan 29, 2022 - Fri.Feb 04, 2022

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SPAC industry promotes myths in a 'deep fraud,' former SEC official says

CFO Dive

Promoters of SPACs have upheld several "myths" to ensure steady income from a boom in the so-called blank-check companies, according to a former senior SEC official.

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Josh Weinberg, Head of Financial Systems and Change at Citizens Advice

Generation CFO

Transformation: to some, it suggests progress, efficiency and radical change, but to others, the term doesn’t sit quite right. . “I tend to steer away from using the word ‘transformation’” says Josh Weinberg, Head of Financial Systems and Change at Citizens Advice. . “In my experience, it has connotations around redundancies and other negativity of change.

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A Budget for agri-innovation and sustainable growth — D Narain

CFO News Room

The announcements made by the finance minister are expected to accelerate the sector’s growth by focusing on streamlining agricultural value chains to boost farmer incomes and farm productivity. By D Narain. Agriculture remains the primary source of livelihood for roughly 58% of India’s working population and the sector has significant potential for growth, with the ability to accelerate rural development and growth.

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What is ERP in Supply Chain Management?

Navigator SAP

Speed, efficiency, and clear communications: these are the keys for a business of any size to stay competitive in today’s global marketplace. Unfortunately, ever-changing technology and buying patterns can make it hard to deliver the right product at the right price to the right place at the right time.

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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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Office rent decline gives CFOs potential cost-saving opportunities

CFO Dive

Since early in the pandemic, effective U.S. office rents have fallen 13.3% and office vacancies have risen to a nearly 20-year high, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

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Budget infuses more atmanirbharta into MSMEs — Sanjay Agarwal

CFO News Room

MSMEs, the growth engine of Atmanirbhar Bharat, are gearing up for a more digital savvy year ahead with interlinked portals like Udyam, e-Shram, NCS and ASEEM, which will deepen their integration with the organised ecosystem. By Sanjay Agarwal. The finance minister has managed the tough balancing act of spurring economic revival while also maintaining fiscal discipline.

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Too much dry powder, macro issues top worries for GPs

Private Funds CFO

Tax changes in the US, China’s crackdown on high-growth sectors and Europe’s increasing protectionist policies will also impact dealflow, according to Dechert. Carmela Mendoza reports.

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Intangibles are your valuation key, even if capital tightens

CFO Dive

If 2022 is the year investors start applying more scrutiny to the companies they fund, the value of your intangible assets can be the difference in getting, or not getting, the price you want.

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How can ERP improve a company's business performance?

Navigator SAP

The new normal for the world is volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. This is a challenging new normal.

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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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Amazon Breaks Record for One-Day Gain in Market Cap

CFO News Room

Investors in big technology stocks have a serious case of whiplash. Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 13.54%. on Friday notched the largest-ever one-day gain in market value for a U.S. company—just a day after Facebook parent. Meta Platforms Inc. suffered the largest-ever loss. The dramatic moves suggest investors are moving quickly to draw distinctions among the growth prospects of some of the biggest U.S. companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates.

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Firms should update policies after SEC expands insider trading definition

Private Funds CFO

Lawyers recommend updating insider trading policies to explicitly restrict trading by insiders in third party companies that could be considered 'economically linked'.

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CFOs slow to upgrade cash tracking despite pandemic: Forrester

CFO Dive

Aligning accounts payable and accounts receivable can reduce fraud, increase agility and spark profit-boosting insights. Yet few companies are seizing on the opportunity.

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What are the primary business benefits of ERP?

Navigator SAP

When a young company starts growing and begins looking for new ways to increase profits, financial and process optimization matter. Once you have a fundamental understanding of your organization’s pain points, you can make the case for investing in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In today’s business environment, where more and more employees are working remotely at least part of the time, cloud-based ERP makes a lot of sense because it helps eliminate redundancy while offering grea

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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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Cost of a Making a Will

CFO News Room

Let’s face it. The last thing people want to do is plan for their death. There are a lot of important decisions you need to make—decisions you shouldn’t leave to your loved ones. These include saving for and planning your funeral, appointing a power of attorney, designating beneficiaries for all your accounts, setting up your kids—especially if they’re fairly young, planning your estate , and setting up your last will and testament.

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Carlyle’s net-zero pledge sets standard for US firms

Private Funds CFO

More pledges are likely to come after Carlyle became the first high-profile US private markets firm to formalize an emissions plan aligned with a net-zero target.

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CFOs should adopt strategies of activist investors: Gartner

CFO Dive

CFOs should advance beyond the role of reviewer or advisor and serve as an “activist,” crafting a business strategy and investment portfolio that maximizes long-term value.

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Global Venture Capital Funding Scales New Heights

Global Finance

Global VC investment nearly doubled in value to $671 billion, according to the latest quarterly report from KPMG Enterprise.

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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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Omicron Absences Fail to Dent Job Growth

CFO News Room

The U.S. labor market recovery continued in January amid a surge in Omicron infections, even though millions of workers stayed home sick or were idled by temporary business closures, causing many to be counted by the government as jobless. Employers added 467,000 jobs in January , the Labor Department said Friday. That comes even though 3.6 million people weren’t working due to illness, up from 1.7 million in December, when Omicron caseloads began to grow exponentially.

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Broadridge blockchain hub tears down wall between managers and administrators

Private Funds CFO

The company expects the Private Market Hub to help overcome transparency by giving GPs real-time access to data and a full-circle view of the fund lifecycle.

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Talent shortage turns audits into tactical issue

CFO Dive

Delays mean companies can face hurdles raising capital, securing financing or making financials available to buyers interested in an acquisition.

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Metaverse: Walmart Readies For Web 3.0

Global Finance

Walmart is finalizing its push into the metaverse, according to trademark application filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office at the end of 2021.

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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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New schemes driving exports: Piyush Goyal

CFO News Room

“No country can rely only on subsidies to promote exports,” he asserted. “India, over a period of time, has been promoting exports through subsidies, but that has not really given us the desired result or given us the huge impetus that one would have expected,” he added. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday that the earlier plan to boost exports through subsidies hasn’t really yielded the desired results, but the new tax remission schemes for exporters, apart from being com

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Uncertainty on insider trading rule; Stories from Feb/Mar edition

Private Funds CFO

Firms should update policies after SEC expands insider trading definition; Stories from our February/March edition.

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Fewer companies expected to issue low-yield convertible bonds

CFO Dive

The last two years marked a high point for zero-coupon bonds. Rising interest rates are taking that option off the table.

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Three rules for customer-centric strategic planning

Anaplan

Today, CEOs and their boards are under continual pressure to squeeze incremental profit from their existing business and routinely hit the quarterly earnings figures they promised to the market, knowing that if they repeatedly fail they will soon be shown the exit.

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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.