Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

New Gartner benchmark study reveals 92% of HR leaders are prioritising budgeting and cost optimisation initiatives. Leaders who fail to forecast uncertainty and prepare accordingly are forced to cut costs in real time, once their organization is impacted. That’s the good news. Otherwise, they risk being caught by surprise.”.

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Benchmarking Budgeting Economics Forecasting 52

Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The current economic climate is causing profound challenges for business owners across industries. Three: Benchmark Industry Profitability Ratios Your profit margin might look weak to you, but is it? Benchmark your industry before looking at your profitability so you know what to aim for.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Benchmarking Valuation 52

Future CFO

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The country has a budget deficit target of 3.3% IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath said earlier this month that the organisation will likely cut India’s growth forecast of 6.1% The country’s central bank cut its benchmark rate five times this year. of its GDP. of GDP in the year through March. Image by IMF.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Budgeting Economics Forecasting 52

Future CFO

MARCH 3, 2020

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has cut its benchmark interest rate today by half a percentage point to mirror the Fed’s base rate reduction from 2% to 1.5%. In late February when announcing its budget for the year, the Hong Kong SAR government projected a record deficit for 2020 at US$17.89 BNM reported economic growth of 3.6%

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Budgeting Forecasting Economics 40

Future CFO

AUGUST 30, 2021

These days, strong computer skills, as are advanced knowledge of accounting, budgeting, and finances. Controllers: Companies don’t have access to historical data to benchmark their responses and performance against or help model future scenarios. But these are table stakes of the profession. An MBA or CPA is also highly desirable.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance CFO Problem Solving 52

Future CFO

MAY 26, 2020

Asked what the priorities of the financial planning and analysis teams were in 2018, three-quarters of CFOs surveyed by FutureCFO between March and April 2020 picked planning, budgeting and forecasting as a key function of the department.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Treasury Education 52

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

Profit and Loss 62

Profit and Loss Valuation Forecasting Investments 62

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? TROPIN: And you know, we certainly did that on a portion of what we look at as our risk budget. Well, I’m not forecasting another 20% down, but I do think we could go down 5% or 10%. How do you track performance? TROPIN: Yeah.

Profit and Loss 114

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 114

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. But those forecasts are, you know, not particularly reliable.

Treasury 55

Treasury Marketing Economics Banking 55

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 31, 2023

Neil Dutta has been doing economic analysis and research from a market-based perspective for over 20 years. I found this to be just an absolutely fascinating discussion about how to best contextualize the world of economic data around you, in a way that’s useful for you as an investor. With no further ado, RenMac’s Neil Dutta.

Economics 55

Economics Marketing Manufacturing Profit and Loss 55

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. Your chief economic advisor to the president. 00:16:40 So there was a way to judge yourself.

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Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 105