CFO Dive

AUGUST 11, 2025

The numbers are hard to ignore: a gap of 3.5 million finance professionals, 75% of CPAs retiring by 2040, fewer students studying accounting, and 80% of companies are unable to hire required talent. Will the new sequel and the franchise’s drama help attract more young people to the accounting profession?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Dive

JULY 22, 2025

lucky-photographer via Getty Images Dive Brief: T he number of U.S. Although the number of IPOs is the biggest first-half tally since 2021, proceeds from offerings fell to $17.1 Published July 22, 2025 Jim Tyson Senior Reporter post share post print email license Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange. © 2025 TechTarget, Inc.

Marketing

CFO Dive

JULY 10, 2025

Samuel Corum via Getty Images The recently-enacted “ One Big Beautiful Bill Act ” could help lift sagging merger-and-acquisition volume numbers by creating a more attractive environment for dealmaking on the U.S. The total number of U.S. tax policy front, analysts said. Please select at least one newsletter. or its subsidiaries.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 13, 2025

Jack Bogle certainly was out in the industry and vocal, but at the firm level, you’re right, we didn’t do a lot of advertising. So I had oversight of our 420 plus the number’s probably even greater now, first mutual funds and increasingly ETFs. Karin Risi : No, I think that’s a fair characterization.

Investments

CFO Dive

JULY 30, 2025

Published July 30, 2025 Alexei Alexis Reporter post share post print email license courtneyk via Getty Images Dive Brief: Recruitment remains a pressing challenge in the accounting industry, with eight in 10 companies struggling to hire skilled professionals, according to survey results released Wednesday by finance software firm Intuit.

Accounting

Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

While the job losses varied across sectors, with job skills and unionization being determining factors, the top line numbers tell the story. The other number that I track is the equity risk premium , which at least in my telling, is a forward-looking number backed out of the market and the receptacle for the greed and fear in markets.

Investments

Global Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

Serie A, B, and C teams are all in play as private equity firms join the mad rush to buy a dwindling number of assets. There are also tax credits related to sports sponsorships, which may benefit firms involved in the development of football stadiums through advertising partnerships.

Corporate Finance

Global Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

Those numbers reflect in part the increasingly tense relations between mainland China, the regional behemoth, and the US, but also Malaysia’s common-law heritage, educated, English-speaking workforce, and significantly lower costs compared with its smaller neighbor, Singapore. billion (about US$88.2 year-on-year growth in investment.

Leverage

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 1, 2025

He didn’t advertise himself. 00:32:02 [Speaker Changed] First of all, that that chapter made me cry, number one. Here’s a guy who’s an accountant teaching classes in Brazilian jujitsu and like, like becoming a ninth level black. He somehow figured out the problem and no one knew who he was. You know, that.

Investments

CFO Dive

AUGUST 7, 2025

I have already personally entertained productive conversations with a number of key Global Blue customers, both at the executive level and in physical stores," Lauber said. © 2025 TechTarget, Inc. or its subsidiaries.

CFO

CFO Dive

JULY 9, 2025

In a survey by the Big Four accounting firm, about 33% CFOs said they believe now is a good time to take on more risk, d own from 60% who expressed the same view in the first quarter. The number is at its lowest level since the third quarter of last year. Sign up A valid email address is required. Please select at least one newsletter.

CFO

CFO Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

The breaches resulted in a number of lawsuits that were eventually combined into a single class action complaint before Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. Brown via Getty Images Opinion The Ben Affleck accounting shortage hack “The Accountant” movie from 2016 is loved by many CPAs. The judge has scheduled a Dec.

CFO

CFO Dive

JUNE 27, 2025

Andrew Harnik via Getty Images Dive Brief: State lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Delaware each voted on Thursday to pass their respective CPA pathways legislation, joining a growing number of states enacting new laws to provide alternative routes to obtaining a certified public accounting license and ease the accounting shortage.

SAP

CFO Dive

JULY 8, 2025

Only half of respondents said they had clear visibility into SaaS usage while the number of respondents reporting full tech stack transparency fell four percentage points to 43%. Brown via Getty Images Opinion The Ben Affleck accounting shortage hack “The Accountant” movie from 2016 is loved by many CPAs.

Auditing

Bramasol

JULY 7, 2025

M&A deals require better data consolidation to help companies create more personalized content recommendations and advertising opportunities based on a larger pool of customer data. This has impacted how media companies recognize revenue from subscriptions, pay-per-view content, and advertising.

SAP

CFO Dive

JULY 23, 2025

And over the last few years, a steady number of consumers are choosing electric vehicles,” Jacobson said of GM’s EV offerings, noting the automaker sees “significant growth potential.” Brown via Getty Images Opinion The Ben Affleck accounting shortage hack “The Accountant” movie from 2016 is loved by many CPAs.

CFO

CFO Dive

JUNE 17, 2025

The company has also announced a number of sweeping changes and initiatives this year, including plans to create two new headquarters in Irvine, California and Plano, Texas, the company said in a February press release. Will the new sequel and the franchise’s drama help attract more young people to the accounting profession?

CFO

CFO Dive

AUGUST 5, 2025

After release of the less-than-forecast employment numbers, President Donald Trump fired the BLS commissioner, alleging that the bureau “rigged” the data. Brown via Getty Images Opinion The Ben Affleck accounting shortage hack “The Accountant” movie from 2016 is loved by many CPAs. Unemployment increased 0.1

CFO

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2025

I was not surprised, since I have lived with imitations for years, but I was bemused, since I don't have an Instagram account and have not posted on Facebook more than once or twice in a decade. In fact, none of them are monetized, and if you do see ads on my YouTube videos, it is Google that is collecting the revenue, not me.

Valuation

CFO News

JULY 7, 2025

Please understand this 25 per cent number is far less than what is needed to eliminate the Trade Deficit disparity we have with your Country," Trump wrote to the two nations, The Hill reported. He shared details regarding tariffs on his social media platform, Truth Social, as well.

CFO

CFO Dive

JULY 10, 2025

Both filings gave a California address with an incorrect zip code and list a phone number which routes back to the Tesla investor relations team. “It Seven state treasurers — included Lierman — sent a letter to Tesla Board Chair Robyn Denholm in April calling for improved board accountability and shareholder transparency, for instance.

CFO

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For investment advisers looking to attract prospective clients, advertising the performance of their investment strategies would be a logical way to market their services (at least if they had strong historical returns!). Two final prohibitions under the Marketing Rule include restrictions on the use of predecessor performance (e.g.,

Advertising

CFO Dive

JULY 24, 2025

However, a number of organizations, including the U.S. By the numbers $15 The minimum wage demanded in the Fight for $15 movement — an effort started in 2012 by fast food workers in New York. 16 The number of years since the federal minimum wage — $7.25 — last was increased, on July 24, 2009. $17.95 or its subsidiaries.

CFO

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. I am not an accountant, and have no desire to be one, but I have used their output (accounting statements) as raw material in valuation and corporate finance.

Accounting

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2016

When it comes to ad spend these days, programmatic advertising — using software and algorithms to purchase data-based and highly targeted digital ads automatically — is the new king. In 2016 alone, programmatic advertising will account for 73 percent of all digital display ad budgets. That’s a total of $25.23 That’s a $15.45

Advertising

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In this post, I will revisit Facebook's most recent earnings report, and argue that while it contained disappointing news on growth and profitability, the bad news was exaggerated by systematic inconsistencies in how accountants categorize expenses, skewing earnings and invested capital down in firms that don't fit the accounting prototype.

Accounting

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

There’s a (slowly) growing push among retailers, brands and even politicians to make advertising campaigns as true and transparent as possible. We want to lend our voice and the support of the ModCloth community to this movement to stop the extreme and harmful photoshopping of women in advertisements.”. 2014 introducing the campaign.

Advertising

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 10, 2022

For those of you who like to see the numbers, here’s an example of compound interest at work: Suppose you invest $1,000 in a five-year certificate of deposit, paying 5% and compounded annually. Actual Number of Years to Double Your Investment. What Types of Accounts are Best for Compounding? Banks Savings Accounts.

Investments

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Twitter has revealed that some user data might have been used for advertising purposes. “We Tailored Audiences is a version of an industry-standard product that allows advertisers to target ads to customers based on the advertiser’s own marketing lists (e.g., email addresses or phone numbers they have compiled).

Advertising

Bramasol

MAY 23, 2024

Previous episodes in this Insights Series have explored the challenges created by new Digital Solutions Economy paradigms for billing, fulfillment, invoicing, revenue accounting, and compliance across a wide range of industries. Entitlement Management - Tracking and managing software licenses to ensure they are accounted for accurately.

Compliance

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. In the first session of my valuation class, I pose a question, “What comes more naturally to you, telling a story or working with numbers?”

Marketing

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a move that lets users place and get phone calls through their Alexa gadgets, Amazon is launching a new collaboration with AT&T that will enable consumers to connect their phone numbers with their Alexa accounts, The Verge reported. And, with Amazon’s current Away Mode turned on, calls can be temporarily disabled.

Numbers

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Until now, advertisers were able to use those identifiers to reach that block of users, small as it may have been. In response, Facebook has removed the capability for advertisers to target groups based on self-reported information. billion monthly users this week, making it the number one cross-OS messaging app in the west.

Advertising

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. Facebook, I argued, is a corporate autocracy, with Mark Zuckerberg at its helm.

Valuation

The Finance Weekly

MARCH 26, 2023

In fact, there is a whole genre of , accountant jokes , mostly poking fun at the mundane and manual work that they do. Here’s one example: (warning: no one said it will make you laugh) Why do some accountants decide to become actuaries? Finance is a field that is traditionally known as stable and maybe even boring.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

According to new data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, mobile accounted for the single largest individual segment of the $59.6 billion spent annually on online advertising. All in, mobile accounted for 35 percent – at $20.68 Twenty years later we still see double-digit growth rates, including 20% in 2015.

Advertising

PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2016

So, what’s this location-based advertising thing, and why is it (going to be) so important for the future of retail and mobile transactions? There’s a reason, after all, why 66 percent of marketers listed location-based advertising as the “most exciting” mobile opportunity of 2016, according to a study at the beginning of the year by IAB UK.

Advertising