VCFO

JANUARY 18, 2024

Here’s a fictional example: When the outer building frames of an entertainment center chain’s forthcoming locations are complete, ACME Services is hired by the chain to ready the interior of the buildings for business. As the points suggest, deferred revenue isn’t just an accounting issue.

Auditing 81

Auditing Leadership Construction Invoicing 81

Future CFO

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Finance and accounting outsourcing (FAO) buyers are increasingly open to third-party support for complex, judgment-intensive processes, and digital solutions; providers are further differentiating themselves with talent strategies, governance models and ESG initiatives. Trends driving FAO. Other findings.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Healthcare Leverage Finance 52

Bramasol

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Here again, working with experienced QTC and RevRec specialists who understand both the business/accounting issues and the technical capabilities can help companies chart a forward path that delivers in both the near term and over the long run.

SAP 64

SAP IFRS Compliance Construction 64

Spreadym

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Create a Revenue Forecast: Estimate your expected income sources, including salaries, sales revenue, investment income, grants, or any other sources of revenue. Categorize Expenses: Group your expenses into categories, such as housing, transportation, utilities, entertainment, and so on.

Budgeting 59

Budgeting Strategic Planning Forecasting Economics 59

Bramasol

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Accounting and finance processes as businesses look to automate and streamline their financial operations. Long-term contracts: With many SaaS customers committing to long-term contracts that include usage, entitlements and other rights, it can be difficult to track and support actual consumption while assuring accounting compliance.

SAP 77

SAP Compliance Leverage Accounting Standards 77

Bramasol

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Here again, working with experienced QTC and RevRec specialists who understand both the business/accounting issues and the technical capabilities can help companies chart a forward path that delivers in both the near term and over the long run.

SAP 52

SAP IFRS Compliance Construction 52

Planful

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You can’t afford to miss the year’s conference for finance and accounting professionals. . If we’ve learned anything over the past year, it’s that finance and accounting need agility, productivity, and connectivity. Decisions, plans, forecasts, strategies, models—everything is better when you work together. .

Planning 40

Planning Entertainment Finance Forecasting 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

billion, surpassing its forecast of sales between $755.3 The NRF had forecasted a jump of 20 percent to 30 percent, or sales of between $202.5 The NRF said 2020 retail sales from Nov. 31 were $789.4 billion and $766.7 billion, or an increase of 3.6 percent to 5.2 A surge in online shopping also contributed to the sales boost.

Sales 52

Sales Forecasting Entertainment Retail 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

raised venture capital for their SMB-facing tools, including global payments, accounting and banking. million in Series A funding, Futrli landed support from e.ventures, Notion Capital and firstminute Capital for its small business forecasting and reporting solutions. Businesses across Asia, South Africa, the U.K. GreenSlate.

Foreign Exchange 77

Foreign Exchange B2B Invoicing Startups 77

Bramasol

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

This new episode in our ongoing series on the Digital Solutions Economy (DSE) provides an overview of how DSE is impacting the Media and Entertainment industry. In many ways, the media and entertainment industry pioneered the rise of online subscription-based offerings as streaming video burst on the scene in the early 2000s.

Entertainment 78

Entertainment SAP Compliance Advertising 78

PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

In the era of streaming entertainment and online news, the number of companies providing digital platforms for content is on the rise. Those who have an account with Venmo will be able to sign up for a new account at Hulu without entering credit card information. FactSheet had forecast that Netflix would add 6.14

Entertainment 70

Entertainment Numbers Forecasting Accounting 70

PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

billion), well above analysts’ forecast of 36 billion yuan. In fact, revenue was well up across all of Alibaba’s segments — cloud computing brought in $314 million, up 103 percent, and digital media and entertainment raked in $571 million, up a full 234 percent. Earnings, however, was another story. billion yuan ($5.6

Entertainment 48

Entertainment Profit and Loss eCommerce Forecasting 48

The CFO College

MAY 12, 2021

Even though working remotely as your own boss is the dream of many bookkeepers and accountants, it’s too easy to find yourself struggling to make ends meet, hunting down payment from clients, and settling for any client who throws work at you. Many people make room in the budget for travel, clothes, and entertainment.

Education 52

Education CFO Investments Budgeting 52

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. If you are a numbers valuation, you start with some advantages.

Marketing 130

Marketing Valuation Advertising Numbers 130

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Categories include smart contract platforms , media and entertainment (metaverse) , DeFi , and infrastructure applications. . 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.

Concentration 130

Concentration Investments Securities Currencies 130

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 90

Valuation Advertising Numbers Investments 90

PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2017

During the I/O developer conference, Google announced that it’s opening the door for in-app payments with the Google Payment API, which will allow merchants and developers to accept credit and debit payments made from a card that is saved in a customer’s Google Account. One thing the Show can’t do is capture still photos.

Entertainment 44

Entertainment Forecasting Leverage Securities 44

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Street, chilled by the forecast, sent Snap’s stock down such that the firm hit an all-time intraday trading low on October 9, and finds its share price down 55 percent from its initial public offering (IPO) in March of last year. Nathanson went on to slash his revenue estimates for Snap Inc. 30, 2018.

Investments 72

Investments Entertainment Sales Leadership 72

Finvisage

JANUARY 2, 2020

Although quantitative facts and figures have provided objective numerical forecasts, we have also adjusted those expectations using experience and insight (judgement) to improve upon those forecasts. Account receivables typically represents 40% of the company’s assets, where 1 out of 10 invoices becomes delinquent.

Construction 52

Construction Manufacturing Economics Profit and Loss 52

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The forecast for the long holiday weekend looks outstanding, too, which just adds more sizzle to our step. The homegrown experience is one where wallet users can transact with their accounts without the need for physical debit or ATM cards at the company’s branded kiosks. The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time.

Sales 43

Sales Retail Entertainment Banking 43

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

From beauty care boxes to online entertainment streaming services, the world of subscriptions is expansive — and getting bigger. That expansion also means challenges for the businesses in how they manage their accounts and finances, as well as their relationship with business or consumer subscribers.

B2B 78

B2B Accounting Invoicing Entertainment 78

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 25, 2023

While the gate receipts and merchandising revenues are significant, they are relatively easy to forecast, given history and ticket sales. Once the other expenses associated with a team are netted out, the operating profits at sports franchises are, for the most part, moderate.

Valuation 92

Valuation Numbers Investments Marketing 92

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

And I can tell you from personal experience, us finance people, we’re not great at accounting, legal, compliance, all the detail and stuff that, that keeps the firm running. You get the, we think it’s be good a solution and allows more portfolio manager focus not to have separate accounts. What was the thinking there?

Valuation 52

Valuation Investments Finance Math 52

Bramasol

JANUARY 13, 2023

Previous episodes in this series include: DSE in the Media and Entertainment industry. On the back-end, deploying BRIM and RAR together enables telecom companies to effectively manage complex licensing, partnering and revenue-sharing relationships to assure end-to-end visibility, scalability, data consistency, and accounting compliance.

SAP 90

SAP Compliance Leverage Entertainment 90

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

We have deep dives on subscriptions, accounts receivable (AR) automation and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness. Individuals are spending more time in their residences, and a number of entertainment outlets are shuttered or running at restricted capacities. Treasury Says PPP Loan Forgiveness Coming Soon.

Treasury 56

Treasury Entertainment eCommerce Accounting 56

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: So they don’t permit any kind of commission-based selling, and so it’s all gone to fee-based, and you have a huge percentage of population orphaned from advice, because essentially, an advisor says, “Ah, that’s too small of an account. It’s not worth my time.” JOHNSON: Exactly.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 87

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 87

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

David Snyderman has put together an incredible career in fixed income, alternative credit, and really just an amazing way of looking at risk and trade structure and how to figure out probabilistic potential outcomes rather than playing the usual forecasting and macro tourist game. It was a lot of venture funds that had accounts there.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Credit Risk Investments Banking 57

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And the ETF, the ETF wrapper, allowed people to get that exposure inexpensively, holding it in a brokerage account. And if, again, based on our forecast for US equity markets, they’re somewhat muted because valuations are stretched in our view relative to our fair value model. DAVIS: It’s free money. And it runs a scale.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Valuation Construction 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

According to Jefferies analyst Stephanie Wissink , it accounted for 15 to 20 percent of U.S. That comes at a bad time for the toy industry, generally, which isn’t facing competition from other toys, but from other ways that kids now entertain themselves: iPads and apps. Mobility spending: Mobility spending was forecast to hit $1.7

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Valuation Sales Retail 40

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As smart phones have become ubiquitous in India, their usage has soared, partly because they are the only digital devices that many Indians have available to them to get online, and thus use to access social media, entertainment and shopping.

Valuation 72

Valuation Profit and Loss Investments Numbers 72

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Growth came from better performance in retail and entertainment such as movies and gaming. During the holiday season, he said, eCommerce accounted for over 30 percent of US consumer holiday volume — and retail spend was strong early in the holiday season, the CEO said.

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Forecasting Entertainment Leadership 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2019

Whether it will beat the single-day record of $119 million (set in 2017 by The Force Awakens) or whether it will hit the forecasted $300 million domestic and/or $900 million global mark in its opening weekend remains to be seen. Many have spent a good deal of time thinking about it – and rehashing every possible success/failure scenario.

Entertainment 56

Entertainment Forecasting Accounting Numbers 56

PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2019

That device is still in the working prototype phase and is forecast to have a six-figure price tag when it hits the market. For us, it was never meant to be a toy company, or even an entertainment company. And by all accounts, it seems we will have a long time to consider this problem. But only a little.

Technology 75

Technology Startups Construction Entertainment 75

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. And I — I — I don’t like to ask people for predictions and forecasts, but you’re looking at the flows and you get client questions all the time.

Investments 117

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 117

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Everybody’s been forecasting incorrectly about recessions, about rate cuts. The interesting thing about the state of inventory today is normally new construction accounts for 10 to 15 percent of total inventory. What’s keeping you entertained? RITHOLTZ: He also is locked out of his Twitter account as am I.

Sales 52

Sales Marketing Numbers Construction 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Russia and Ukraine account for 12 percent of the calories in the world. You don’t know where, and you know, their forecast — RITHOLTZ: That goes back to your sense that you need the ability to surprise when necessary. I mean, what is it? RITHOLTZ: Right. So giant breadbasket, second biggest breadbasket after the U.S.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So that was the, that was the sort of the thing that we built that people hadn’t thought through is how do you stochastically forecast a range of outcomes for the asset price? Now it’s dangerous to forecast that far in the future because behavior can change. Then how does it affect the repayment risk on the loan?

Profit and Loss 57

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 57