Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This doesn’t mean that your CFO handles accounting and tax preparation personally, but they do manage relationships with the people responsible for those things. They will handle budget planning and forecasting, develop strategies for growth, and ensure accurate financial records are maintained. Your Revenues are Starting to Slide.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. This made me decide to pursue my education in accounting. After graduation, I started my career in finance at Arthur Anderson as an auditor and became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Then I spent three years with Chevron as a regional finance and accounting implementer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2017

Apple forecast revenue between $43.5 Subscription services were also reportedly a strong performer, with Apple reporting paid subscriptions exceeding 165 million (though during the investor Q&A, it was clarified that isn’t 165 million unique users, since Apple users will have more than one kind of paid subscription account).

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. You get the, we think it’s be good a solution and allows more portfolio manager focus not to have separate accounts. Finance was the natural fit for GMO.

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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. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And the reason that I liked that one, because I’ve sold very few VAs in my career, but I could do the math on how that rider worked on a piece of legal paper and my calculator. And so, what we did, and I guess the advantage of being with a broker-dealer is those are now Commonwealth house accounts. Stacey: Absolutely.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re in Europe right now, for instance, and you open up an account it Ftx.De, which is you know FTX is European business in Germany. So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. It’s how math works.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Petal wants to change the math on how consumers gain access to credit – and turn the tables on how creditworthiness is assessed. At a basic level, that meant designing their app around an entirely mobile-first experience, to maximize accessibility for the millennial consumer group, who they forecasted would be among its heaviest users.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. And that the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Funds paid via the mPOS were deposited directly into troops’ bank accounts. It helps us with planning sales forecasting … [including having] awareness of where sales are coming from and how much the sale is.”. Future Entrepreneurs.

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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.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. So at the time, well, I left the floor beginning of 95 and started deploying just the money I’d earned on the floor in off floor trading account. Because if you don’t include every single data point, then in the matrix math you have a divide by zero issue.

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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. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? I mean, what is it? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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?

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CFO Talks

MAY 13, 2025

Dont be bullied into accepting hockey-stick forecasts or synergy projections based on gut feel. Will the deal structure trigger tax or accounting landmines? You stay grounded in the math. Price with Discipline – Not Emotion Valuation is where many deals derail. Your job is to apply cold, hard realism.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is gonna happen. What was the career plan? That’s right.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

So I definitely think you want to account for that in places like price-to-book in earnings. RITHOLTZ: Right, ASNESS: Compared to any forecast or trailing version of inflation and doing that consistently through time, bonds were about tied with giving you the least they’ve ever given you. But imagine you have a forecast.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

They’ve made forecasts, they’ve made predictions about what will and won’t happen, and none of it’s come true. I was an accounting major for a good period of time. I got well into the upper division stuff, and then I couldn’t imagine myself as an accountant. And I thought, what do you do?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

And so I was going to have to invest and save on my own account to accomplish that. Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. I I, I mean that’s how I do math in my head.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that. So I sell my stocks to make room for gold and it doesn’t, turns out my forecast is wrong.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

He is one of those people who focuses on figuring out what’s happening here and now, and is less concerned about making forecasts about the future. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. So, so let’s talk a little bit about forecasts. Plus, you know, take everything into account.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And it was just such a good reminder that like, there was no ability to forecast this. And that’s sort of the math. He was right on the thesis. He found a place to express it efficiently.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 2, 2025

And when I went there I was gonna be a lawyer and I was gonna major in mathematics and I took my freshman year math and that all went great. And it turned out that half of that class had been the US National Math team and they had all competed internationally and they knew stuff I didn’t.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And so after a week there, I, I said to the guys on desk, Hey, can I open an account and do this? Yeah, you’re, you’re, you’re allowed to open an account. So I opened an account and I sat there and I traded the, the New York Chicago Gold arbitrage for the next sort of close to month. Gary Cohn ] 00:05:28 Be?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 1, 2025

He, like, he stopped doing math and science when he was like seven years old. Here’s a guy who’s an accountant teaching classes in Brazilian jujitsu and like, like becoming a ninth level black. So that I wouldn’t, I mean, Dave has more, those characters are not characters I would’ve naturally sought out.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 30, 2022

They show how Trump used the tax code to lower his tax obligations and they reveal details about foreign accounts and the performance of some of his highest-profile business ventures.” • Totally not a nothingburger! points hit in November and compared to market forecasts of 40. How did they do it?” • For math mavens!

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