PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

There are three new features — Intelligent Collections, Intelligent Vendor Management and Intelligent Planning — which are intended to remove time-wasting steps and friction and improve cash flow for corporate finance teams, the release stated.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Accounts receivable (AR) is a function that spreads across multiple tasks of an enterprise, from corporate finance to sales teams and vendor relationship management initiatives. Yet AR has widely been viewed as a friction-filled manual task that doesn’t add value to the organization.

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Corporate Finance

JUNE 4, 2023

But accounting choices, which have been labeled as potential earnings manipulation, may be the cause. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal notes that as of May 26, 77 percent of the 485 companies in the S&P 500 that had reported earnings beat earnings, compared to the historical rate of 66 percent. percent historical average.

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Accounting 100

FISPAN

MAY 3, 2023

In today's fast-paced business environment, it's crucial for companies to utilize the skills of their teams effectively. Aligning team members in the right way not only saves time and money, but also helps organizations reach their goals. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Banking has become a critical tool in this effort.

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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.

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Accounting Marketing Advertising Valuation 130

CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

AI in the “Real World” While these powerful tools seem to have a near mastery of natural language communication, they are not necessarily designed to possess many of the skills required by finance and accounting professionals. However, they still have a place in corporate finance and accounting.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Artificial intelligence-powered tools, like virtual assistants, have the potential to reduce the time it takes to close the books from 10 days to just two, placing the remaining eight days in the hands of accountants and other finance chiefs to wield more strategically for their enterprise. Balancing Risks.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Corporate accounting standards are changing, with the Financial Accounting Standards Board adopting new standards in ways companies report on leases, hedging and other financial activity. A recent report from CFO.com shed light on another factor driving accounting and financial transparency within corporate America.

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Corporate Finance Finance Accounting Standards Accounting Principles 55

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 11, 2024

The six classes that I prepped for in those two years ranged from banking to investments to corporate finance, and while I have never worked harder, much of what I teach today came out of those classes. In 1984, I moved on to the University of California at Berkeley, as a visiting lecturer, teaching anything that needed to be taught.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

The ability for finance and accounting teams to capture transaction data across payment channels remains a challenge as information is stored across various portals. Yet the reality is that the reconciliation process is rarely ever straightforward.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. Just as a note of warning, this is my quirky version of accounting, and I don’t follow the accounting script in this class.

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Marketing Corporate Finance Valuation Finance 130

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.

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Accounting Advertising Valuation Investments 74

CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

During my teaching lifetime, I have taught a wide swath of classes, ranging from banking to equity instruments, but in the last twenty years, my focus has been on three classes, c orporate finance, valuation and investment philosophies , with the last one taught only online.

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Marketing Corporate Finance Valuation Finance 130

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The corporate finance space is in flux, but how it’s changing depends on the market in which you stand. PYMNTS takes a quick trip across the globe to explore business finance trends in the U.K., 40% of Singapore SMEs don’t have access to a bank loan , despite accounting for 47 percent of the nation’s GDP.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

Yet, just as SMBs can be too small to be considered corporate, high-net-worth individuals can have financial service needs that are too big to fit into the traditional consumer financial management range of products offered to the Average Joe. “There is a specific need for these families,” she told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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Corporate Finance Accounts Payable Finance Invoicing 61

CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 18, 2023

AI in the “Real World” While these powerful tools seem to have a near mastery of natural language communication, they are not necessarily designed to possess many of the skills required by finance and accounting professionals. However, they still have a place in corporate finance and accounting.

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Finance Accounting Auditing IFRS 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

Accounts receivable, accounts payable, ERP systems and accounting platforms all exist in the same flow of financial data, and blockages to that flow mean limited visibility and the possibility for error. “Unlike EDI, which is old and stodgy (but standardized), APIs are a complete mess,” he said.

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Corporate Finance Finance Accounts Payable Communication 69

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A research firm has discovered that the number of material accounting mistakes made by U.S. For many, the mistakes were discovered when corporate finance teams were changing accounting paperwork to comply with the new U.S. tax law and revenue accounting rules. public companies has gone up this year.

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Numbers Accounting Accounting Principles Corporate Finance 68

Essentials of Corporate Finance

JUNE 4, 2023

But accounting choices, which have been labeled as potential earnings manipulation, may be the cause. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal notes that as of May 26, 77 percent of the 485 companies in the S&P 500 that had reported earnings beat earnings, compared to the historical rate of 66 percent. percent historical average.

Accounting 40

Accounting 40

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Demand for corporate finance helped propel China’s banks to new lending records in November, according to news from Reuters on Monday (Dec. That figure surpassed analysts’ expectations, especially considering China’s efforts to reduce risk tied to a surge in corporate debt. Chinese banks provided $169.27 billion yuan.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

But the scheme faced some of its harshest attacks yet at the hands of the Corporate Finance Network, a U.K. accountancy group specializing in providing advisory services to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Reports in Accountancy Daily on Monday (April 29) said the Corporate Finance Network is calling on U.K.

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Accounting Banking Corporate Finance Treasury 59

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2023

 This week, we speak with Aswath Damodaran, who holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education at New York University’s Stern School of Business. A nine-time “Professor of the Year” winner at NYU, Damodaran teaches classes in corporate finance and valuation to MBA students. He received his MBA and Ph.D.

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Valuation Corporate Finance Investments Finance 117

Accountancy Today

JULY 25, 2022

Data from The Gazette Official Public Record revealed construction, manufacturing and retail were the sectors that accounted for almost 40% of administrations in 2022.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Steve Troy, CEO of AeroFund Financial, says that’s a trend permeating many components of corporate finance today: Businesses don’t just need better tools – they need, in some cases, an entirely new way to manage finances. That could mean new payments rails to automated accounts payable solutions. In the U.S.,

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Corporate Finance Finance B2B Invoicing 43

PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

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. “Bookkeeping is the low-value work performed by accounting firms,” he said.

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Accounting Corporate Finance Accounting Firms Auditing 71

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023.

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Corporate Finance Valuation Finance Financial Analysis 89

Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Another important aspect to consider within the discussed topic is how exactly FP&A is different from other finance disciplines, namely accounting, corporate finance and financial control.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

Rising corporate finance metrics don’t always mean good news. Find out which figures led to good growth — like digital corporate payments increases or a rise in SME hedging practices — and which signal bad news for corporate FinServ. The numbers are on the up this week! But don’t let that fool you.

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Corporate Finance Finance Treasury Education 40

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Banks and businesses alike are heading toward the 11th hour of changes in accounting standards, which will have a major impact on how companies report financial metrics and performance. Experts say the move will not go unnoticed when the accounting standards begin to take effect for public companies in 2021.

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PYMNTS

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.

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Economics Accounting Auditing Forecasting 77

PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The competition is heating up between payment technologies in accounts payable, with ACH and virtual cards seeing significant pushes in the B2B payments space to combat the dreaded paper check. Which will come out on top? There are a lot of treasury management issues out there that need to be addressed,” he told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Have you ever considered a career in non-traditional accounting? According to a career survey by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants , 36% of member respondents are undertaking roles in non-traditional accounting functions and employers are experiencing difficulties in retaining and recruiting such talents.

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Accounting Problem Solving Auditing Corporate Finance 40

PYMNTS

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.

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Corporate Finance Accounts Payable Finance Treasury 87

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

corporate finances following a series of scandals. Separate reports on Thursday in AccountingToday said the nation’s top auditors, including KPMG and PwC, have been urged to improve their corporate accounting processes, with the U.K.’s

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Accounting Corporate Finance Financial Reporting Finance 43

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The future of the corporate accountant is in flux. FinTechs are developing ways to automate accounting tasks, forcing human accountants to provide more strategic, value-added services. That doesn’t mean corporate accountants are jumping ship, however.

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Accounting Corporate Finance Risk Management Forecasting 43

Anaplan

MARCH 28, 2021

The path to becoming a leader in corporate finance used to be straightforward. You’d major in something like finance, economics, or accounting, get a junior position in one of a few tracks, and stay there for 10-20 years, probably earning an MBA or CPA along the way.

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