PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

One way this shift has materialized is in how small businesses seek and hire financial professionals to join their companies. In a 2017 report from job hunting site Indeed , researchers found that “small business accountant” was nowhere to be found in the top-10 job positions sought after by most small business employers.

Accounting 71

Accounting Corporate Finance Accounting Firms Auditing 71

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

food commercial director, were accused by the SFO of manipulating financial reports to overstate profits. Both have denied the charges, which included allegations that they were aware of internal efforts to make it appear as if Tesco had been more financially healthy than it actually was. .”

Accounting 43

Accounting Corporate Finance Financial Reporting Finance 43

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JUNE 11, 2020

With market volatility and economic pressure higher than it has been in more than a decade, the ways businesses manage and account for their money is inevitably included in that wave of operational change. That means significant implications for the ways accountants and auditors operate both within an enterprise and externally from it.

Economics 77

Economics Accounting Auditing Forecasting 77

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APRIL 10, 2020

Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. While flashy corporate FinTech is exciting, innovation efforts have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.

Corporate Finance 87

Corporate Finance Accounts Payable Finance Treasury 87

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MARCH 4, 2020

The enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) system has been a staple of corporate finance operations for years, acting as a central repository of data and a hub to initiate a range of processes, from accounting to procurement. He pointed to financial reporting as one example of this shift.

Cash Flow Forecasting 104

Cash Flow Forecasting Accounts Payable General Ledger Corporate Finance 104

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Corporates are gearing up to manage a whole slew of accounting standards changes in the coming years, but one of the more immediate effects involves how leases are recorded on financial statements. Reports also said that there may be no financial benefit to the changes.

Accounting 49

Accounting Accounting Standards Financial Reporting CFO 49

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Amid the flurry of B2B FinTech innovation aiming to transform organizations’ back offices, there is often one common threat within the disruption: the need for previously siloed, disconnected systems and processes to integrate with each other, offering a streamlined, holistic view of the enterprise.

CFO 58

CFO Corporate Finance Finance Risk Management 58

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

That's particularly true for finance teams like accounts payable , accounting or payroll. We're just used to paper reports in our hands," Wood told PYMNTS in an interview. Yet even with the pandemic highlighting the importance of digitization, paper still sticks around, according to Jesse Wood , CEO of eFileCabinet.

Accounts Payable 63

Accounts Payable Compliance Invoicing Finance 63

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AUGUST 21, 2018

auditing giant KPMG was hit with yet another fine from the nation’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC). Reports in Bloomberg said KPMG was hit with $2.7 Press relations for KPMG noted that the firm’s auditing on Ted Baker financial statements was not questioned by the FRC. government.

Auditing 40

Auditing Financial Reporting Accounting Finance 40

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Reports in Reuters on Sunday (November 11) said the U.K. Parliament will commence an inquiry into the nation’s corporate auditing market, which is currently dominated by the Big Four accounting firms Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG, adding new pressure on an industry already being probed by other policymakers.

Auditing 49

Auditing Marketing Construction Accounting Firms 49

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

.” Increasingly, MSPs are tasked with handling more financial data as well, from sources like invoices and payments of their customers. That, too, is a challenge for any business: EY research published in 2015 found that the biggest financial reporting challenges for CFOs is a lack of integration between IT systems.

Finance 43

Finance Financial Data Invoicing Communication 43

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APRIL 19, 2017

B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) firm Workiva released new data this week that highlights financial executives’ struggle to forecast. Nearly half of survey respondents (47 percent) said they have no budget for new tools like accounting, finance or reporting software this year.

Forecasting 40

Forecasting Budgeting Corporate Finance B2B 40

PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

“We are pleased to be the first to use this new platform jointly developed by Deutsche Bank and Bank of China,” said Bosch Head of Corporate Finance and Regional Treasury for APAC Christian Zeidler in a statement. Deutsche Bank has been operating across Asia for 30 years, according to reports.

Cash Management 40

Cash Management Banking Treasury Corporate Finance 40