CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, or a store of value, but it does not have legal tender status. Cryptocurrencies are sometimes exchanged for U.S.

Concentration 130

Concentration Investments Securities Currencies 130

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Banking and accounting for U.K. SMEs remains a highly concentrated industry, with the majority of business current accounts (BCAs) still provided by a small group of the largest banks," said Countingup Founder and CEO Tim Fouracre in a statement. Salt Edge To Automate SMB Data Aggregation For Deskera.

Banking 56

Banking Concentration Reconciliations Invoicing 56

The Finance Weekly

MAY 5, 2024

On the other hand, revenue planning concentrates on the actual inflow of money into the company, facilitating the allocation of funds for expenditures and investments over a certain period. Sales planning focuses on forecasting potential cash flows and profitability , laying the groundwork for achieving desired sales targets.

Planning 52

Planning Sales Forecasting Strategic Planning 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

We see large and small brands/retailers leveraging Instagram’s leading reach, data, and ‘browsing/aspirational’ behavior to grow their online businesses.”. This same type of collection, in similarly concentrated form, has been cause for concern in the recent past , given the potential uses of such data.”.

eCommerce 57

eCommerce Advertising Concentration Leverage 57

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Chote Kiatruangamala Chote Kiatruangamala , finance director at Supernap (Thailand) , noted that during 2022, with the global inflation many firms had to downsize and realign themselves more closely to their business volumes while concentrating on improving cash flow.

CFO 98

CFO Finance Leadership Concentration 98

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

One recent study found that new customer accounts now represent 30 percent of all transactions made online, for example, five times as many as they did prior to the crisis. Consumers are still shopping online more than ever seven months into the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Concentration 79

Concentration Retail Leverage Entertainment 79

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This includes raising capital, managing cash flow, accurately accounting for business activity, and forecasting future performance. However, they usually lack a strong financial background, and it's essential to have effective finance and accounting support for a business to thrive.

Startups 52

Startups Finance CFO Forecasting 52

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

Debt, and more debt: Moody’s — through the voice of Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi — sounded the alarm at the beginning of the week as corporate debt is getting, in his eyes, too concentrated and too high. Glimmers of the subprime lending spike seem to be shimmering as the leveraged loan market stands at $1.4

Currencies 40

Currencies Concentration Leverage Accounting 40

VCFO

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

What’s critical to understand today is that the intensity of the environmental factors we now face is going to be matched by a similarly intense and concentrated period of businesses changing positions along this continuum – some for the better, and some for the worse. With cash, the time to liquidity is instant.

Concentration 77

Concentration CFO Strategic Planning Practice Management 77

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

Ninety percent of the $10 trillion “push” payments market opportunity is concentrated in a variety of disbursements made between businesses and consumers that today rely on cash, checks and ACH to move money between those parties. including payments to non-Visa branded debit cards as well.

Planning 50

Planning Concentration Healthcare Accounting 50

CFO Simplified

APRIL 15, 2022

How many customers account for 80% of your sales? Customer concentration had become an ever-bigger problem as borrowing increased. Significant Findings and Recommendations: Reduce Customer Concentration. The quantity seemed to grow over time, as the accounting department turned a blind eye. Rank your customer base.

Concentration 52

Concentration Profit and Loss Sales B2C 52

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

FinTech investments targeting B2B and corporate services spanned the globe, with particular concentration this past week in SMB lending across India and Europe. Based in Florida, the company is a FinTech payment as a service provider and offers services across a B2B focused hub, spanning accounts payable and receivables. Cybereason.

B2B 46

B2B Accounts Payable Concentration Leverage 46

Future CFO

JUNE 23, 2021

Leveraging automation that includes AI allows for a better quality and understanding of the data and an acceleration of work processes, all packaged into flexible, scalable solutions that can increase savings and productivity. The term AI generally describes the mimicking of human, “natural” intelligence by using algorithms.

Invoicing 52

Invoicing Accounts Payable Technology Concentration 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

He recounted that Fundbox is able to plug into data sources as far-flung as bank accounts, invoice platforms, ERP data and a significant amount of unstructured information. As a result, the view is a holistic one, with a sense of the SMB/borrower’s vendor concentration, cash flow volatility and leverage ratios.

B2B 52

B2B Concentration Invoicing Finance 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

wholesale by continuing to reduce our concentration in that channel.”. Wholesale now accounts for about 30 percent of the company’s business, down from about 50 percent eight years ago, he told analysts. “Growing our U.S. This will continue to trend down as other parts of the business grow at a faster pace,” Bergh said.

Concentration 55

Concentration eCommerce Sales Leverage 55

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

More appropriately called the concentrated market power of global finance and the multinational corporate structures that dominate the market under the auspices of the hands-off model. And more specifically vulnerabilities linked to the concentrated structure of global production. And that needs to be exploited.

Economics 100

Economics Concentration Investments Finance 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Just like the original notion of giving idle black car drivers an opportunity to fill in the gaps between appointments with a few gigs, those drivers now powered a local fleet that could leverage its logistics expertise to expand the Uber ecosystem and power new services. Uber Eats users concentrate 53.6 Closing The Loop.

Transportation 58

Transportation Concentration Leverage Accounting 58

PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2016

Then, in perhaps the most overt sign of its finishing blow, in late December 2015, MCX’s “anchor member” Walmart launched Walmart Pay , a QR code mobile payments app that leverages the Walmart.com credentials on file, which includes network branded credit and debit cards.

Concentration 42

Concentration Leverage Technology Sales 42

CFO Share

APRIL 11, 2024

Counter-intuitively, an outsourced bookkeeping service reduces the risk of fraud by adding more oversight and best-practices to your accounting processes. Beyond security, there are other reasons “do it yourself accounting” hurts your business. The entry-point for hackers – your vendor’s email accounts – are beyond your control.

Securities 52

Securities CFO Education Auditing 52

Future CFO

MARCH 7, 2021

It’s important to learn from different industries and leverage each other’s best practices to create a more diverse and inclusive business environment. Wang: The conversation around gender parity in the finance and accounting is often centred around hiring women in senior roles, such as the CFO.

Finance 52

Finance SAP Leadership CFO 52

PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Utilizing unique feedback from the marketplace and our Columbus pilot, MCX has made a decision to concentrate more heavily in the immediate term on other aspects of our business, including working with financial institutions, like our partnership with Chase, to enable and scale mobile payment solutions.

Invoicing 43

Invoicing Concentration Reconciliations Accounting 43

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

An example is Uber, which has a product called UberRUSH, where they leverage a network of people on bikes or with cars that will handle deliveries of goods in urban corridors. What did you do to get enough consumers interested in signing on either through the app or establishing an account online to give those businesses business?

Leverage 46

Leverage Advertising Concentration Numbers 46

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

According to eMarketer , Facebook will pocket nearly $34 billion in digital ad spend in 2017, and Facebook and Google will account for 46.4 Perhaps leveraging its social networks across all of its platforms around a Marketplace model could be one of those logical paths to explore. percent of all global digital ad spend this year.

Advertising 51

Advertising Retail Startups eCommerce 51

Future CFO

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the finance function, basic accounting processes like accounts payable, payroll and purchasing are often allocated under the shared services model. This allows the organisation’s core finance and accounting (F&A) operations to concentrate on more strategic work, such as financial analysis and planning. "We

Finance 52

Finance Communication Accounts Payable Invoicing 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Later, the launch of Amazon Pantry leveraged Amazon’s brand and Prime reach to offer consumers the convenience of buying online the bulky items they once schlepped home from the grocery store. grocery business accounts for about 6 percent of the GDP and 6.4 The Battle for the (First) Basket. At $627 billion , the U.S.

Sales 54

Sales Concentration Marketing Manufacturing 54

CS Lucas

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Covenant Threshold Monitoring To avoid any risk of breaching any covenants, the system monitors the current status against periodic covenant tests for earnings, leverage, liquidity, or other metrics dictated by lending agreements. Alerts notify appropriate stakeholders as threshold limits approach.

Technology 52

Technology Treasury IFRS Compliance 52

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

After you take into account both who has adopted the service, and how often people who have adopted it use it, the numbers have barely moved over 20 months: roughly speaking, only one person in 20 who have the service use it when they can, 19 out of 20 people who have the service don’t even bother. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Numbers 66

Numbers Concentration Technology Retail 66

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

bill pay market accounted for 15 billion transactions in 2018 — and the vertical continues to grow at steady mid-single-digit rates annually. Divesting the Speedpay business allows us to concentrate our resources on our cross-border money movement strategies and monetize a non-core asset for our shareholders. All in, the U.S.

Concentration 79

Concentration Currencies Healthcare Education 79

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Along with designing a client’s asset allocation , optimizing asset location is another way advisors can add value as putting different investments in taxable versus tax-deferred accounts can have a significant impact on after-tax returns. leveraging trusts when appropriate, and selecting the optimal assets for charitable giving.

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Farhaan discusses the critical aspects of his role, emphasising the shift from traditional accounting to strategic and operational involvement across business sectors. Farhan holds a BCom and a number of postgraduate diplomas in accounting from the University of Johannesburg. Farhaan: We speak of CFOs as traditional accountants.

CFO 52

CFO Leadership Accounting Finance 52

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

And one report notes that “without accounting for GHG emissions from land use change, the carbon footprint of food produced and not eaten is estimated to 3.3 Supermarkets buy inventory to sell to consumers, but some of those products never end up in their hands, and instead become food waste. The Retail Market.

Concentration 57

Concentration Retail Education Forecasting 57

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Because of the structure of the tax code, there are often ‘add-on’ effects created by adding or subtracting income – and these effects aren’t accounted for when simply looking at one’s tax bracket. In the end, finding the ‘true’ marginal rate of the conversion (i.e., ESG/SRI criteria); advisors who want to overlay various rules (e.g.,

Planning 130

Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I had never taken an accounting or a finance class. 00:16:05 [Speaker Changed] We set up a co CIO model to deal with that very issue so that we could attract the best talent, leverage the skills and capabilities of Carl and myself, allowing us to have more time both to invest. 00:22:29 [Speaker Changed] So less concentrated exposure.

Healthcare 61

Healthcare Investments Construction Concentration 61

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The Cole Memo , issued in 2013 by the Department of Justice, lays out the guidelines under which financial institutions can offer compliant financial services (like bank accounts) to businesses operating dispensaries in states where it is legal to sell medicinal and/or recreational marijuana. The Power Of Transparency.

Concentration 47

Concentration Accounting Banking Currencies 47

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The concentration of merchants with Pay with Amazon was one of the best-kept secrets in payments — well, until that report. The biggest challenge when selling insurance — or even subscriptions, Gauthier notes — actually comes right at the outset, in account creation. People who buy online have an account on Amazon,” Gautier noted.

Concentration 46

Concentration Accounting Numbers Retail 46

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maybe it’s risk based and it’s a risk factor that we haven’t really accounted for. And at the same time, we have also a number of short-term drivers to the markets that we need to take into account. You need the lower leverage than you used to need before. VASSALOU: — maybe it’s an anomaly.

Investments 65

Investments Marketing Economics Risk Management 65

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.”

Restructuring 130

Restructuring Planning Accounting Marketing 130