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Unverified filings list Tesla CFO as treasurer of new Musk political party

CFO Dive

The documents filed with the Federal Election Commission — one of which Elon Musk has decried as false — could indicate a blurring of the Tesla finance chief’s professional boundaries.

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Book Review: Cheaper Faster Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War

CFA Institute

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (July 5–6)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that Congress has passed highly anticipated tax legislation, making 'permanent' (i.e., without a scheduled sunset) the lower individual tax rates enacted as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), increasing the estate and gift tax exemption (which was scheduled to revert to approximately $7.14 million next year) to $15 million in 2026, and raising the limit on the

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Sebi mulls shifting weekly options expiry to fortnightly expiry: Report

CFO News

Sebi may shift to fortnightly index options expiry to curb rising volumes and expiry-day manipulation, following the Jane Street fallout. Despite curbs, turnover remains high. A decision will hinge on near-term data. Regulatory scrutiny has already impacted related stocks.

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AI In Accounting: A Practical Roadmap For Smarter AP

Speaker: Gerald Ratigan

The accounts payable (AP) function is evolving and AI is leading the charge. As finance teams face rising invoice volumes and expectations for speed and accuracy, AI-powered automation has shifted from a futuristic concept to the most practical solution. But for finance leaders, success isn’t just about selecting the right tools, it’s about implementing the right strategy.

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How and When to Communicate with Your Busy Business Bankers

CFO Selections

The relationship between business owners and their bankers is critical to maintain to ensure both short-term and long-term business health, and yet it's not talked about very often. H ow do you collaborate with your bankers during times of uncertainty? How do you make this critical relationship work to your benefit over the long term?

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From Gut Feel to Real-Time, Why CFOs Must Build Finance Teams that Think in Dashboards 

CFO Talks

From Gut Feel to Real-Time, Why CFOs Must Build Finance Teams that Think in Dashboards There was a time when the finance function was purely backward-looking. Month-end meant printing reports, stacking spreadsheets, and explaining the past. But that era is gone, and frankly, good riddance. Modern CFOs are expected to know what’s happening in the business right now, and even more importantly, what’s likely to happen next.

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Buyers Beware: 7 Red Flags That Signal a Private Market Reckoning

CFA Institute

Mark J. Higgins, CFA, CFP, serves as a senior vice president for IFA Institutional where he specializes in providing advisory services to institutional plans, such as endowments, foundations, pension plans, defined contribution plans, and various corporate plans. In this role, he leverages more than 14 years of relevant experience consulting for both small and multi-billion-dollar plans.

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Eftsure Joins Nacha as Preferred Partner to Strengthen ACH Payment Security

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

From a Press Release dated July 2, 2025, Reston, VA Eftsure, a global leader in payment fraud prevention, has been named a Nacha Preferred Partner, joining a select group of technology providers recognized for advancing the ACH Network. Eftsure is designated as a Preferred Partner in three critical categories: Account Validation, Fraud Monitoring, and Risk and Fraud Prevention.

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MiB: Kate Moore, Citi Wealth CIO

The Big Picture

 This week, I speak with Kate Moore , chief investment officer at Citi Wealth. We discuss her extensive and diverse career, which saw her as Head of Thematic Strategy and a portfolio manager for the Global Allocation Fund at BlackRock , and stops at JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Moore Capital and Morgan Stanley in senior investment positions.

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Stop Budget Burnout: A Better Way to Grow Your Nonprofit in 2026

Speaker: Sean Yoder

Nonprofits are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate financial accountability while continuing to expand their impact. Traditional budgeting models often fall short, reinforcing silos, limiting flexibility, and stalling growth. Enter collaborative budgeting: a dynamic, team-driven process that enables smarter resource allocation and builds financial resilience at scale.

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Programmable payments and the future of finance automation

CFO Dive

SAP’s payment solutions enable real-time visibility into transactions, ensure seamless compliance with regulation, provide cost saving and risk minimization opportunities.

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#366 – Leading Practices in Treasury: Strategies for Unforeseen Challenges

Strategic Treasurer

Episode 366 Leading Practices in Treasury: Strategies for Unforeseen Challenges In the final episode of the series, Paul Galloway joins host Pushpendra Mehta to unpack strategies for unforeseen challenges. From threat assessments and forecasting to communication and automation, they explore how treasury can enhance resilience and agility in uncertain times.

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Mind the Inflation Gap: Hedging with Real Assets

CFA Institute

David Blanchett, PhD, CFA, CFP®, is managing director, portfolio manager, and head of retirement research for PGIM DC Solutions. PGIM is the global investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. In this role, he develops solutions to help improve retirement outcomes for investors with a specific focus on defined contribution plans. Prior to joining PGIM, he was the head of retirement research for Morningstar Investment Management LLC.

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​ION wins “Best Sell-Side OMS” at Capital Markets Technology Awards APAC 2025

Reval

​LONDON – 07 July 2025: ION, a global leader in trading and workflow. The post ​ION wins “Best Sell-Side OMS” at Capital Markets Technology Awards APAC 2025 appeared first on ION.

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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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No tax on Social Security benefits? Not quite true.

Tips Watch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com I sometimes watch too much CNN (stop me!

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Measuring AI value is tricky. Here’s how CFOs should approach it.

CFO Dive

Many of AI’s benefits — better forecasts, faster decisions, stronger customer engagement — are difficult to quantify, writes Keystone.ai’s Aarif Nakhooda.

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Built by Ghosts: How Past Leaders Still Run the Finance Office 

CFO Talks

Built by Ghosts: How Past Leaders Still Run the Finance Office No one arrives in the CFO seat without help. Somewhere along the line, someone gave you a break. Someone shared context you weren’t yet ready to see. Someone offered a challenge you didn’t yet know you could handle – and then stood back to let you rise. We tend to credit experience, qualifications, and technical mastery for career progression in finance.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Colombia Tolima Los Brasiles Peaberry Organic coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • JPMorgan’s Risky, 5-Day Dash to Help Warner Bros. Split in Two : Offering creditors a deal that would leave them with billions less than they were owed, despite the notes having an investment-grade rating.

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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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From Acknowledgment To Engagement: Key Questions To Reframe Issues And Get Action When Clients Are Off Track

Nerd's Eye View

Financial planning meetings often fall into categories like "Fix Meetings" (where there is an urgent problem that both the advisor and client want to address), 'Fine Meetings' (where everything is on track and the advisor provides reinforcement), or 'Flourish Meetings' (where clients are thriving and the focus is on expanding possibilities). However, another type of meeting occurs when the client isn't in crisis but has clearly drifted off track (e.g., spending more than planned, which could lea

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A retirement planning expert dives into the Big Beautiful Bill

Tips Watch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.

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AI-driven job cuts may be underreported: Challenger

CFO Dive

Only 75 job cuts by U.S.-based employers in the first half of the year were explicitly attributed to AI, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The outplacement firm suspects the number is higher.

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Climbing the Ladder Without Changing Ladders

CFO Talks

Climbing the Ladder Without Changing Ladders It is easy to romanticise the modern finance career as a fast-paced journey filled with lateral moves, high-impact projects, and strategic leaps across industries. But behind many successful CFOs lies a very different story. One shaped by consistency, trust, and years of growth within a single organisation.

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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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10 July 4th Reads

The Big Picture

My 3 (4?) day weekend WFB reads: • For ‘Jaws’ fans, there is no bigger island than Martha’s Vineyard. Fifty years after the release of the summer blockbuster, many visitors won’t go in the water. ( Washington Post ) • The dollar’s recent decline is not about ‘safe haven’ status : Confidence in the dollar system had a bad shock in April, after the president’s absurd Rose Garden performance on “liberation day”.

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Data validation best practices and techniques for finance teams to know

Cube Software

What is data validation? Data validation is the process of verifying that financial data is accurate, consistent, and formatted correctly before it is stored or used. It ensures that numbers align with predefined standards, eliminating discrepancies that could distort financial reports or lead to compliance issues.

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Bracing up for a competitive and digitally integrated payments environment

Future CFO

The battle to combat fraud, while fostering trust and enabling a secure digital engagement has been greater now, considering how more and more users are turning to digital transactions. Finance leaders, as they look forward and plan ahead for their organisations, are expected to look into diverse opportunities while ensuring to inspire greater confidence for growth and value creation– all these amid the changes in the payments landscape.

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CFOs must embrace ‘cross-functional’ role: Beamery CEO

CFO Dive

To figure out the golden balance between tech and talent spending, CFOs need to work more closely than ever with other C-suite leaders, Beamery’s Sultan Saidov said.

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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.