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Beyond the numbers: What teaching shortages look like in practice

CFO News Room

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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10 Weekend Reads

Barry Ritholtz

. • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( History by numbers : Is history a matter of individual agency and action, or of finding and quantifying underpinning structures and patterns? The Atlantic ). •

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10 Friday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. They have each other’s phone numbers. The stock market’s winners and losers will be different too.

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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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206: Zebediah Marewangepo

CFO Talks

CFO Club Africa is a division of the Chartered Institute of Business Accountants, the professional body for business accountants, financial managers and chief financial officers. and join our community of accounting and finance executives. Is the role of accountants different in the two countries?

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This FP&A Factor will Cost US Businesses $7,800,000,000 in 2022

The Finance Weekly

Breaking down the Math. billion is the first number that came out of the research and this represents the total amount of money lost by manual financial work. This number represents how much of an economic uplift could occur “if FP&A departments hit a conservative 0.1% billion is the 2nd half of the study.

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#FA Success Ep 321: Navigating The Financial Advisor Career Track In An Unfamiliar Culture, With Danqin Fang

Nerd's Eye View

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how after a few mentors in China suggested that Danqin look into private banking and wealth management (as they felt it better suited her than her initial accounting major), she began Googling potential career paths in China but instead came across the CFP Board website and immediately connected with the description (..)

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