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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo

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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo In this edition of our CFO Spotlight series, we are featuring Rofhiwa Irene Singo, an accomplished finance leader whose journey is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and impactful leadership. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school.

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James Owen, Global Chief Financial Officer, Profiles Division, Kantar

Generation CFO

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

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Error Metrics: How to Evaluate Your Forecasts

Jedox Finance

A friendly warning: This involves some math, which is necessary to explain how these metrics work. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. intermittent demand/sales data).

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Q&A with finance leader: Lead with context, coach with content

Future CFO

The interview is part of FutureCFO's Fem ale Leadership in Finance Series. Kris Giswold (KG): My journey in finance began with my love of puzzles and numbers. I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical.

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Ancestry CEO Deb Liu Says Women Need to Reframe Their Relationship to Power

CFO News Room

I talked to Lenore Blum , she was one of the first professors of math at Berkeley, and she was talking about how difficult it was and how eventually her contract was not renewed, how she was almost kicked out of her next university, before she went on to a great career and success. And actually, I was reading a number of studies.

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Stakes Rising In The US-China AI Race

Global Finance

Arcesati notes, “The US has historically excelled at attracting top STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] talent from abroad, while China has struggled to do so. AI’s positive impact will be concentrated, initially, “in a limited number of sectors.”

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Deloitte country CFO: How you can rise through the ranks

Future CFO

The CFO role requires certain traits and skills, said Woranat Dumrongsiri (pictured), Country CFO, Deloitte Thailand and Deloitte Laos during an interview with FutureCFO for the publication’s Female Leadership in Finance Series. I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. My financial career is quite a long journey.

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