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Beyond the numbers: What teaching shortages look like in practice

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To convey at least a part of that missing texture, we’ve pulled together some recent journalistic and more granular accounts of how state and local school education officials have responded to the long-term rise in teacher vacancies. Unfortunately, almost all of these have proved to be less than ideal for teachers and students.

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Confessions of an FP&A-holic: 7 Lessons I Wish I Knew Earlier

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Being good at finance and getting numbers right is not enough anymore Of course, strong analytical skills and knowledge of finance are essential for an FP&A professional but gone are those days when these skills or proficiency in Excel were enough to excel in this role, pardon the pun.

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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

Barry Ritholtz

Your Lizard Brain : One of my favorite behavioral hacks is for you stock junkies: Manage your lizard brain via a Cowboy Account. Set up a mad-money account with less than 5% of your liquid capital. ” The cowboy account serves the same function. Buy high, sell low, repeat until broke. If it works out great!

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DeepSeek crashes the AI Party: Story Break, Change or Shift?

Musings on Markets

As the number of potential applications of AI proliferated, thus increasing the market for AI products and services, another part of the story was also being put into play. The Value Effect Now that my AI story is in the open, I will use it to revisit my valuation of Nvidia, and incorporate my new AI story in that valuation.

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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo

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However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. This early encouragement played a key role in shaping my future, as it introduced me to the world of business and numbers. What key skills should a newly qualified accountant develop on their path to becoming a CFO?

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James Owen, Global Chief Financial Officer, Profiles Division, Kantar

Generation CFO

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. By the time he was hired into larger organisations he felt he was a bit of an outsider. “In

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Q&A: Your Money Map

Barry Ritholtz

This is more than overconfidence, the DKE is how poorly we are at metacognition assessing our own abilities at a specific task Look at the history of performance and the small number of professional investors who outperform their benchmarks over 1, 5, 10, and 20 years. What are some examples of bad numbers?