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The Future of Financial Leadership: Aligning Operational and Strategic CFOs

The Finance Weekly

Optimize Performance by Comparing KPIs Against Benchmarks: An operational finance leader will keep track of important business metrics such as gross profit margin, working capital, and operating cash flow, and compare them against industry benchmarks. Help department heads make the case for new hires.

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Compensation Strategy

VCFO

Historically, examining compensation strategy and conducting compensation benchmarks has largely been an annual or, in some cases, even less frequent endeavor. Managers should be able to communicate clear steps that the employee can take to reach a higher compensation level, and what the expected timing would be.

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Jedox platform release 2023.2 elevates comparison

Jedox Finance

Historically, Jedox model and report builders construct dashboards as a visual representation of data that helps business users track and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs). Cloud Console improves communication and transparency Through Cloud Console, organizations can now diagnose and resolve VPN connection issues efficiently.

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How To Hire And Train An Associate Advisor For Your RIA

CFO News Room

Providing constructive feedback to newer associate advisors is also important. They also serve as a benchmark for whether team members are succeeding in their roles on an ongoing basis. Key Result 2 : The associate advisor stays present with clients by communicating with them on an ongoing basis (e.g.,

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Enterprise Risk Management and EPM – Separate or Joined at the Hip?

Planful

For another, their biggest risk is ensuring safety on the job sites, but they also face fluctuating demand in the construction industry and the risk this puts on their P&L. One recommendation was to establish baselines for the business based on prior experience, or to use external benchmarking information to evaluate performance and risk.

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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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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. They create the benchmark. DAVIS: Yes, exactly.