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3 FP&A Practices That Will Transform Your Finance Team

The Finance Weekly

If finance collaborates with marketing, for example, they should be aware of everything from the return on investment of advertising campaigns to the cost and outcome of trade shows. The first step in being a strategic business partner is to stop thinking about how much everything costs and instead concentrate on how to bring value.

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How Trust Ignites Matchmakers

PYMNTS

As consumers have become more comfortable to pass credit card information online in a secure way, there’s a growing number of people that use mobile devices not just for communicating but now for transacting, so the timing was right for something like this to operate and grow.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

Today, corporate public relations and communication teams go to great lengths to find any angle to connect what they’re doing to the blockchain so that they, too, can ride its publicity draft. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., In short, there seems to be, literally, nothing the blockchain cannot do. billion by 2021.

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2022 Best-Of Highlights From The Nerd’s Eye View Blog

CFO News Room

Creating Visual Deliverables That Clearly Communicate Financial Planning Concepts – While technical expertise is necessary to formulate a financial plan, being able to clearly communicate the findings to a client can make all the difference between whether or not the client will understand and agree to implement the advisor’s recommendations.

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The Sharing Economy come home: The IPO of Airbnb!

Musings on Markets

Business Model Airbnb's primary business model connects hosts who own houses and apartments with guests who want to rent them for short term stays, while providing a secure and easy-to-use platform for search, reservations, communications and payments. Second, they also derive revenues from online advertising by hotels and travel providers.

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

With each decade, you can see the effect of regional and sector performance in the previous decade; the 1990 list is dominated by Japanese stocks, reflecting the rise of Japanese equities in the 1980s, and the 2000 list by technology and communication companies, benefiting from the dot-com boom.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. ” It wasn’t that they didn’t communicate that. SEIDES: It’s mostly that and it goes to what you said, which is I love having these conversations and have never advertised on the podcast. SEIDES: Correct.