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Reverse Factoring Intensifies The B2B Late Payments Debate

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The Big Four auditing firms — EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC — have recently requested that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) provide clarity in how corporates should classify their reverse factoring or supply chain financing agreements, adding more fuel to a long-standing debate as to whether such trade financing tools are debt.

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What is Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)?

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Compliance and Regulation: Financial Planning and Analysis ensures compliance with financial regulations, accounting standards, and reporting requirements. By following these stages, organizations can effectively plan, analyze, and manage their finances, enabling better decision-making and financial performance.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Financing Flows 5. Insider, CEO & Institutional holdings 2. Beta & Risk 1.