CFO Talks

JANUARY 29, 2025

My family wanted me to do medicine as i was good at both math’s and science, but finance was where my heart was. With financial foresight, I could ensure precise Revenue forecasting and detecting early if revenue targets will be met or not. It was then that i new finance was my go-to carrier choice.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

An eMarketer spokesperson further confirmed with Bloomberg that the company based its updated forecast entirely on the disclosure in Bezos’s shareholder letter, and not from any additional or exclusive information from Amazon. And that, as it turns out, is really a matter of how one does the math. eMarketer has done its math.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But simple math shows that the season’s big shopping days still only add up to less than 30 percent of holiday spending, leaving the remaining 70 percent to spread out over the four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That’s one way to look at it.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Breaking down the Math. The scope of manual work is also quite large and covers categories such as budgets, month-end closes, and forecasts. A study by the University of Baltimore and Excel-based FP&A company, , DataRails , lays out the full economic costs of businesses sticking with manually prepared financial reports.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

While early to mid-January is always the return season, this year has long been forecast to be a spot more active than its predecessors given the volume of gifts bought online during the 2020 holiday rush. The math gets a bit more involved when it comes to why the consumer is returning an object.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s look closer at the headcount math. Let’s assume over the 4 year forecast window that 50% join in the same state as each office; 20% join in California; 20% in New York; and 10% elsewhere. It’s a pain to keep a model like this up to date with the latest staff list and compare the forecast with actuals as time progresses.

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Adam Kae

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Models, Forecasts, Calculations, Oh My! You'll need to do some math to understand: where your breakeven is. Then, it's best to do some modeling and forecast the different acceptable scenarios based on your negotiations. It's more than a big smile and a "salesman" technique or two. Your Negotiation Strategy.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

a share forecast pre-release. billion — again beating forecasts for $18.49 percent growth forecast. Specifically, when you do the math, you’ll see that our third quarter digital comp sales have actually grown more than 95 percent over the last two years.”. Net income came in at $714 million, or $1.39 Revenue grew 4.7

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

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The CFO College

JUNE 3, 2021

Acquiring these advanced types of services, like setting up a permanent audit trail, rolling cash forecast, month-end reporting, and strategic planning, is the secret sauce your potential client needs to know how their money flows in and out of their company (and what their financial future will look like).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Subscription commerce is attractive to entertainment platforms as well as retail businesses because it locks in revenue streams, and customer data can help with planning and forecasting. The downsides are that the subscription model is subject to customer churn and high acquisition costs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Petal wants to change the math on how consumers gain access to credit – and turn the tables on how creditworthiness is assessed. At a basic level, that meant designing their app around an entirely mobile-first experience, to maximize accessibility for the millennial consumer group, who they forecasted would be among its heaviest users.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. And that the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s look closer at the headcount math. Let’s assume over the 4 year forecast window that 50% join in the same state as each office; 20% join in California; 20% in New York; and 10% elsewhere. It’s a pain to keep a model like this up to date with the latest staff list and compare the forecast with actuals as time progresses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This large and growing data set provides the foundation for proprietary algorithms that we use throughout our business, including those that predict purchase behavior, forecast demand, optimize inventory and enable us to design new apparel. “We also gather extensive merchandise data, such as inseam, pocket shape, silhouette and fit.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2017

Apple forecast revenue between $43.5 Here’s our own estimates using our long standing Apple Pay adoption tracker stats, and back of the envelope math regarding the number of users and share of retail here. And so that part is clearly going on, and it could be what’s behind the data.”. billion and $45.5 billion in Q3.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And the reason that I liked that one, because I’ve sold very few VAs in my career, but I could do the math on how that rider worked on a piece of legal paper and my calculator. I mean, I can do sort of the math overall, 200 million under management, and 206 clients. The math is probably the easiest part of it.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. Can you briefly describe your finance career journey and one or two highlights along the journey? Woranat Dumrongsiri (WD): My interest in finance began in high school. This made me decide to pursue my education in accounting.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I don’t know if those challenges would have been as extreme as was forecasted or not, but I’m really glad we didn’t find out. I understood then that, effectively, fair value was determined by a variety of mathematical — a bunch of math, for lack of a better description. RITHOLTZ: Yeah. To say the very least.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

Some undertake a complex, moneyball-esque statistical analysis of every team, every match-up and every venue in the hopes that they can use math to crack the winning code. After that first $4 billion hit, employers, according to forecasts, will lose another $1.3 There are a variety of methods that go into selecting those choices.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. People might overreact to an interest rate move in our opinion, but we’re not gonna try to forecast it or pick stocks based on that. So I was at Harvard.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And if, again, based on our forecast for US equity markets, they’re somewhat muted because valuations are stretched in our view relative to our fair value model. DAVIS: Yes, we try not to be in the short-term forecasting game. And so I think a lot of investors have alternatives. And it runs a scale.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. And I — I — I don’t like to ask people for predictions and forecasts, but you’re looking at the flows and you get client questions all the time. I was econ and kind of geeky.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You don’t know where, and you know, their forecast — RITHOLTZ: That goes back to your sense that you need the ability to surprise when necessary. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? RITHOLTZ: Right. RIEDER: Totally. It was one of the most famous books in education for a long time. Where are we?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 9, 2023

Forecasting models that combine several measures of local shelter and rent inflation can help explain how recent trends might affect the path of future shelter inflation. Shelter inflation has remained high even as other components of inflation have fallen. ” ( Gizmodo ) • Is it cheaper to refuel your EV battery or gas tank?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

It helps us with planning sales forecasting … [including having] awareness of where sales are coming from and how much the sale is.”. Children who participate in Girl Scouts learn life and leadership skills, and receive an education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and business. Future Entrepreneurs.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 28, 2023

” My math is dropping from 9% to 3% is a decrease, but… How about right/wrong track? The bottom line remains : People really don’t have much luck forecasting the future, they are easily persuaded by members of their own tribes, and they are less than accurate when it comes to understanding their own thought processes.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

Prime numbers may have been confusing in high school math, but here they are the type of numbers that make retailers smile. iPhone 8: Shipment forecasts keep coming down, spelling a bit of doom and gloom for the tech giant’s prospects for those once white-hot devices. High tech, high stakes. .

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Right, ASNESS: Compared to any forecast or trailing version of inflation and doing that consistently through time, bonds were about tied with giving you the least they’ve ever given you. But we don’t trade on a 10-year forecast. But imagine you have a forecast. This is a 5 to 10-year view. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So that was the, that was the sort of the thing that we built that people hadn’t thought through is how do you stochastically forecast a range of outcomes for the asset price? Now it’s dangerous to forecast that far in the future because behavior can change. Then how does it affect the repayment risk on the loan?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is gonna happen. What was the career plan? That’s right.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works. That I think has become pretty important. RITHOLTZ: Right. NADIG: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Americans still have jobs and are continuing to spend — on plastic surgery, motorcycles and cruises — leading many to revise their doom-and-gloom forecasts. This summer’s economy is defying the odds. Washington Post ) • The Anti-California: How Montana performed a housing miracle : Montana had a supply crisis.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that. So I sell my stocks to make room for gold and it doesn’t, turns out my forecast is wrong.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

He is one of those people who focuses on figuring out what’s happening here and now, and is less concerned about making forecasts about the future. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. So, so let’s talk a little bit about forecasts. Ed is a fascinating guy. His clients adore him.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And it was just such a good reminder that like, there was no ability to forecast this. And that’s sort of the math. He was right on the thesis. He found a place to express it efficiently.

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