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Shared services raise the efficiency of the finance function

Future CFO

This allows the organisation’s core finance and accounting (F&A) operations to concentrate on more strategic work, such as financial analysis and planning. "We In the finance function, basic accounting processes like accounts payable, payroll and purchasing are often allocated under the shared services model.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

Arbitrage pricing : Arbitrage refers to the possibility that you can create risk-free positions by combining holdings in different securities, and the benchmark used to judge whether these positions are value-creating becomes the risk-free rate.