The Charity CFO

APRIL 28, 2023

They can help you develop budgets, financial projections, and cash flow forecasts to ensure your nonprofit is financially sustainable. They can also provide financial reports that show how your organization is performing and how it compares to industry benchmarks. However, managing grant funds can be complex and time-consuming.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Accounting Firms Accounting Auditing 52

VCFO

MARCH 2, 2023

Articulate a Clear Vision Businesses without a clear long-term vision often do have a recurring (typically annual) budgeting process that aims to turn a profit and keep the lights on, but that alone leaves them rudderless and prone to growth that’s extremely slow and painful. What type of exit or transition do you envision?”

Strategic Planning 64

Strategic Planning CFO Budgeting Planning 64

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Representation goals — whether based on industry benchmarks or population data for the appropriate city, state, or country — are one component, but it’s equally important to incentivize leaders and create accountability systems to help make those strategies a success. But companies can and need to do more to fully leverage this role.

Investments 100

Investments Leadership Accounting Analyzing Data 100

Onplan

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Finance professionals and teams today have numerous solutions available to help them plan, budget, forecast, and analyze financial information. OnPlan is an all-in-one FP&A solution that streamlines financial forecasting, budgeting, and workflow management by connecting existing spreadsheets to a robust analytics hub. Key features.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Forecasting Planning 52

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 3, 2022

We also have a number of articles on investments: How launching an ETF can create efficiencies for advisors and their clients alike. For these individuals, advisors who leverage advanced retirement income planning techniques could be particularly attractive. Eliza De Pardo | RIABiz).

Communication 130

Communication Investments Planning Marketing 130

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Credit unions possess vast troves of personal information such as credit card data and Social Security numbers that could devastate members if leaked. The leaked data did not include passwords, codes or identification questions, but did expose names, addresses, birthdates, social insurance numbers and information about transaction habits.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Securities Benchmarking Nonprofit 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Duvedi said people tend to lowball the numbers when pitching spend management plans to company leadership because they’re afraid to commit to higher numbers. However, there’s a compelling business case to be made in the hard numbers alone, let alone the soft benefits of better spend management. The second A is adoption.

Accounts Payable 50

Accounts Payable Invoicing Benchmarking Numbers 50

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

Judging from the latest Benchmark Report from CyberSource, online merchants are not only doing a great job of managing fraud, they are doing it across all online channels — and across all types of businesses. There is a lot of information you can leverage on a mobile device,” Schwegman explained. The Budget Balancing Act.

Budgeting 51

Budgeting Benchmarking Technology Leverage 51

The CFO College

APRIL 8, 2021

You’ll also want to stay current on successful brands, along with trending operations, metrics, and benchmarking. For us numbers people, one of the hardest things can be getting out in front of a CEO and talking yourself up enough to land a new client. Another key aspect of becoming a Valuable Expert is enhancing your education.

CFO 52

CFO Benchmarking Tax Planning Accounting 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Creating content, building a social media presence, leveraging platforms like YouTube, and developing as an influencer within a certain target group are business development tactics that should be encouraged for associate advisors who have the desire and ability to engage in them.

Practice Management 130

Practice Management Planning Leadership Communication 130

Planful

DECEMBER 28, 2016

This includes finalizing the budget as well as considerations for upcoming regulatory changes. The Hackett Group benchmark research shows that world-class companies will consolidate and close the month-end books within 3 days, and report within 2 days. This includes looking at industry benchmarks and implementing best practices.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Reconciliations Data Analysis Technology 40

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Combined with growing advisor (and consumer) interest in comprehensive financial planning services, the number of ways advisors can add value for their clients has expanded greatly. Luckily, advisors have a large number of ways to add value to their clients’ lives (more than 101 in fact!), Cash Flow Management.

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

BlueLight

MAY 6, 2020

The investor update email is a powerful tool to leverage this effectively across a big group of investors. Communication architecture Before we get to the investor updates, it’s important to lay out an overall communication architecture (if you do that well, you can leverage it for this audience too).

Communication 52

Communication Startups Finance Benchmarking 52

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

00:12:53 [Speaker Changed] I think number one, the team, my team at Goldman and the, a broader team even and the team at Maryland are, are some of my favorite people. New York is number one. We actually have a budget for risk management and technology and tools. It could be off on the wage increase number somewhere around there.

Investments 57

Investments Math Risk Management Benchmarking 57

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

And right now, you look back over 10 years, our active funds, 94 percent are outperforming their competitive group averages, 68 percent are outperforming their benchmarks. We’ve always been a virtual company, just used to be through the mail and 1-800 number when I joined. So that’s a number I hadn’t seen before.

Leadership 108

Leadership Investments Profit and Loss Technology 108

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? How do you track performance?

Profit and Loss 118

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 118

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 65

Profit and Loss Valuation Forecasting Investments 65

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. You know, my, my number one priority was to operating the firm on a day-to-day basis. That’s unbelievable.

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108