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Beyond Unattended Retail, There’s Unattended Payments

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There is no longer much tolerance, or enthusiasm, on the part of consumers for digging into one’s pocket to find money or a payment card, or doing the mental math (well, OK, a smartphone has a calculator) to figure out how much to tip a driver. Nowadays, one’s card is on file with the ride-hailing service. The Partnership Model.

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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

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Make sure you have the right math and language to explain results driven by direct and indirect marketing spend. As much as possible, CMOs must help their C-suite colleagues understand the math of marketing activities holistically and results throughout the full funnel. Often this comes down to accountability and silos.

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What Walmart’s Resurgence Means For Retail And The “Pays”

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He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. Accomplished public intellectual and post-Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith was well-known for four things. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B.

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181: Imtiyaaz Abdul-Gaffur

CFO Talks

‘ I love breaking the mould of what it is to be a traditional accountant’. Today’s podcast is sponsored by Draftworx, which provides automated drafting and working paper financial software to more than 8000 accounting and auditing firms and corporations. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants.

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Deep Dive: How Not To Lose A Bundle On Bundled Taxes

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Merchants’ marketing departments may find bundling useful, but their accountants are less likely to see it positively — determining individual items’ tax obligations in the different states into which they are sold can be challenging, and putting offerings into bundles only magnifies complexities. Getting To Convenience .

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

Oil prices go up or down, you know, fashion retail goes in and out, unlike for example, selling an ingredient for pharmaceuticals, where they need the ingredient and you’re inspected by the FDA. There was XO Communication and McLeod. KLINSKY: Why would I take more than the value of the accounts receivables. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. And the ETF, the ETF wrapper, allowed people to get that exposure inexpensively, holding it in a brokerage account. And Greg Davis just does an amazing job. I think you will also.