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How ‘EQ’ strengthens a finance team

CFO Dive

Building a “culture of emotional intelligence” in which a CFO’s staff feels supported and valued is key to retaining top talent, an associate professor at University of New Hampshire’s business school asserts.

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How Mid-Market Leaders Use SAP Cloud ERP to Grow Globally

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Discover how fast-growing mid-market companies leverage SAP Cloud ERP to scale operations, enter new markets, and drive international growth.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (June 14–15)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent survey of U.S. investors found that while 96% of respondents said they trust their (human) financial advisor, only 29% said they trust algorithms, suggesting that consumers continue to impose a "trust penalty" on algorithmically generated advice.

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5-year TIPS reopening auction gets real yield of 1.650% to good demand

Tips Watch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The Treasury’s offering of $23 billion in a reopened 5-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security – CUSIP 91282CNB3 – generated a real yield to maturity of 1.650%, close to what the market expected.

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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager

Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te

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Unaccounted income invested in Virtual Digital Assets on CBDT radar

CFO News

The Central Board of Direct Taxes is actively investigating potential tax evasion and money laundering related to cryptocurrency investments by high-risk individuals. Authorities are scrutinizing Virtual Digital Asset transactions for non-compliance with the Income-tax Act, focusing on discrepancies in ITR filings and TDS returns.

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Bayesian Edge Investing: A Framework for Smarter Portfolio Allocation

CFA Institute

Sandeep Srinivas, CFA is a partner and fund manager at FIM Partners in Dubai. He oversees a substantial asset base across Frontier Emerging Markets and the Middle East. He spends significant time on in-depth investigation of business models to uncover opportunities for long-term, value-driven investments. Srinivas’s disciplined, patient investment approach focuses on identifying high-quality, undervalued assets to drive sustainable growth and capital preservation.

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The Innovators 2025: Global Winners

Global Finance

Manish Kohli , HSBC HSBC HSBC’s 2023 acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank’s UK operations led to the creation of its HSBC Innovation Banking unit, with innovation teams in the US, Israel, and Hong Kong joining a 600-strong UK team. Since then, innovations have flowed thick and fast, including SemFi by HSBC, which aims to deliver seamless embedded finance solutions to business clients.

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From Red to Black: CFO Strategies That Drive Organisational Turnarounds 

CFO Talks

From Red to Black: CFO Strategies That Drive Organisational Turnarounds When an organisation faces financial distress, the Chief Financial Officer becomes a pivotal figure in determining whether the business continues to decline or begins the path to recovery. Leading a company from financial loss to profitability requires far more than cost-cutting or boosting revenue.

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Trends In Financial Advice Fees: What Financial Advisors Are Actually Charging For Their Services

Nerd's Eye View

How advisory firms charge for financial advice has long been a central question in the profession. While many firms have historically relied on commission-based compensation methods – reflecting a sales-driven approach – financial advice has evolved with technological advancements and a greater focus on financial planning, with the Assets Under Management (AUM) fee emerging as the primary compensation model.

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Live Demo - Supercharge your Month End Close

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i

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‘Boring’ data work underpins innovation, strategy, Payoneer CFO says

CFO Dive

Finance chiefs need to hone their data skills in an era when they are increasingly looked at not just as strategic leaders, but “innovation champions,” Payoneer CFO Bea Ordonez said.

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Singapore Floats Retail Access to Private Markets: Next Frontier for Asset Managers?

CFA Institute

Singapore’s proposal to democratize private markets signals a shift in retail investing—raising opportunities and risks for investors, managers, and regulators.

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Addressing Uncertainty, Driving Change: The Innovators

Global Finance

Uncertain times call for innovative thinking and a greater focus on both future-proofing and resilience. Accordingly, many of the innovations this year’s award winners are putting in place focus on two imperatives: minimizing the risk of obsolescence or failure when facing unforeseen circumstances and developing greater agility to adapt and thrive in the face of future uncertainties and disruptions.

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The CFO Confessional: Bless Me, Market, For I Have Sinned 

CFO Talks

The CFO Confessional: Bless Me, Market, For I Have Sinned When a corporate scandal breaks, it sends shockwaves far beyond the headlines. Stakeholders lose faith, employees question their future, and market confidence deteriorates. The organisation is no longer assessed solely on its performance but also on its integrity. In these moments, the role of the Chief Financial Officer becomes especially critical.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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Comparing M&A Synergies: What Matters Most in Private Equity Add-Ons?

E78 Partners

Private equity sponsors pursue add-on acquisitions to accelerate platform growth, expand capabilities, and unlock synergies. But not all synergies carry equal weight. Some deliver immediate impact on EBITDA, while others take longer to materialize or fail to scale across the combined organization. Successful firms prioritize the right synergies from Day One.

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SEC taps alum as chief accountant

CFO Dive

EY veteran Kurt Hohl is rejoining the agency as controversial legislation advancing in Congress would fold the duties of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board into the SEC.

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Search Funds: A Strategic Investment in Underserved Markets

CFA Institute

Search funds stand out as a valuable alternative asset class, offering diversification, alpha potential, and operational upside in underserved markets.

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CFO Corner: Rouven Bergmann, Dassault Systemes

Global Finance

Global Finance : Since you joined Dasault Systemes, what has been the most challenging period, and why? Rouven Bergmann: The balance of managing long term and short term is always the biggest struggle for the CFO. You have to create the capacity to invest in the long term, but you also have to manage performance quarter to quarter. Certainly, 2024 was a difficult year, because of volatility in the end markets.

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Your Accounting Expertise Will Only Get You So Far: What Really Matters

Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. If you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner—and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top (a concept first popularized by Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There ). What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level.

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The Rise of the Strategic CFO with Dr. Huruda D’Castro Malungane : ESG, Ethical Leadership, and Breaking the Isolation in Africa

CFO Talks

The Rise of the Strategic CFO with Dr. Huruda de Castro Malungane : ESG, Ethical Leadership, and Breaking the Isolation in Africa In a captivating episode of CFO Club Conversations , Leana van der Merwe speaks with Dr. Huruda D’Castro Malungane, an extraordinary leader at the intersection of finance, governance, risk, and human capital. As the Head of Finance, Acting Head of Risk Management, and Country HR Lead at Liberty Health, and the founder of the CFO Forum in Mozambique, Dr.

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Irreconcilable Differences: How MCA Abuse of “Reconciliation Rights” Threatens Collateral

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

By Robert DiNozzi Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) agreements have become a prevalent form of alternative financing, particularly among small and distressed businesses. Marketed as sales of future receivables rather than traditional loans, these agreements allow funders to withdraw fixed daily or weekly payments directly from a business’s bank account until a predefined “purchase amount” has been satisfied.

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NY passes CPA pathways legislation as Florida punts

CFO Dive

Since late last year at least 19 states — now including New York — have passed legislation providing alternative paths to CPA licensure to ease the accounting talent shortage.

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Book Review: Financial Statement Analysis for Value Investing

CFA Institute

Penman and Pope refine classic value investing through the lens of financial statements.

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How To Overcome Change Fatigue In Finance With Neuroscience-Backed Strategies

Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP

The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.

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1105: The Steady Climb: Scaling with Purpose in FinTech | Rene Ho, CFO, SAP Taulia

CFO Thought Leader

It’s not uncommon for CFOs to exit soon after a major acquisition—especially when a larger enterprise takes the reins. But Rene Ho stayed. Ho had been CFO of Taulia, a working capital fintech, when it was still an independent company. After helping lead the firm through its acquisition by SAP, he chose to stay on, guiding the company through integration while seeking to preserve what made Taulia unique.

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Lessons from an Unfinished Merger: What Integration Failures Reveal About Strategy and Leadership

CFO Talks

Lessons from an Unfinished Merger: What Integration Failures Reveal About Strategy and Leadership When two companies merge, the strategic rationale often appears convincing. The promise of economies of scale, an expanded market footprint, operational synergies, and a stronger competitive position tends to dominate merger announcements. However, while the deal may look sound on paper, the real challenge lies in what follows, integration.

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Why Margin Expansion Is the New Growth Strategy for Private Equity Firms in 2025

E78 Partners

In today’s market, private equity firms recognize that acquisition alone no longer drives sufficient growth. As interest rates rise, deal pipelines tighten, and LPs apply more pressure, firms shift their focus from revenue expansion to margin improvement as the core value driver. In 2025, top-performing firms go beyond sourcing deals. They optimize them.

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7 CFO tips for thriving despite ‘perma-crisis’ turmoil

CFO Dive

“Foundational rules for risk management have been fundamentally altered forever," the former CEO of the Institute of Internal Auditors said.

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Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle

Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP

Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.