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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. Inquire as to why they are investing time and money in various areas, as well as what they anticipate to gain from it.

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Can FinTech Walk The FinTalk?

PYMNTS

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S.,

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The Sharing Economy come home: The IPO of Airbnb!

Musings on Markets

Acquisitions : As the number of hosts and guests on Airbnb have climbed over the years, the company has invested in building a more robust platform for its rentals. Second, they also derive revenues from online advertising by hotels and travel providers.

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

CFO News Room

101 Things That Advisors Actually DO To Add Value (Beyond Just Allocating A Portfolio) – Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. Many advisors are accustomed to using verbal communication with clients (e.g., in client meetings ) and written communication (e.g.,

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

Musings on Markets

The Rise of Intangibles While the debate about intangibles, and how best to value them, is relatively recent, it is unquestionable that intangibles have been a part of valuation, and the investment process, through history. With that said, it is clear that the debate about intangibles has become more intense in the last two decades.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

Barry Ritholtz

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. We also co-invested in an investment recently where we — RITHOLTZ: That’s right. HAMBURGER: — we participated in the same investment. Has that closed?