Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If your board asked you to run new numbers based on fresh assumptions, it took you days or weeks to create a new set of reports. They’re focused less on benchmarking current performance to the predicted budget and instead want to leverage real-time data to understand what the future looks like.

Forecasting 98

Forecasting Budgeting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Benchmarking 98

CFO Leadership

MARCH 31, 2022

The reality is, an increasing number of vendors accept card payments, for many reasons. Card payments are secure–they don’t have to expose their bank account number. According to the 2022 AFP Payments Cost Benchmark Survey, just 25% of organizations surveyed said they used them. The number can only be used once.

B2B 93

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CFO Thought Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2023

However, turn back the clock to his ExactTarget days, and it’s easy to see that for a number of months, Salesforce did indeed flip Leet’s world upside down. “I Jack Sweeney “Leverage your 360 degree view of your business to deliver valuable actionable insights to your leadership team.

CFO 52

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Future CFO

MAY 2, 2023

Another good starting point is to look at other companies of similar size and scale within the same industry, which have already gone through a finance transformation process, as a benchmark for your organisation. These metrics need to be concrete, measurable and directly linked to transformation outcomes.

Finance 52

Finance Benchmarking Leadership Communication 52

CFO Leadership

MARCH 31, 2022

The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) 2022 Payments Cost Benchmarking Survey found that 73% of organizations are now transitioning from checks to electronic payments. Your bank account and your routing number are right there–no phishing or hacking required. 2020 CRF-NACHA Survey on CRF Member Payment Benchmarks.

Cash Management 52

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The Charity CFO

AUGUST 14, 2023

Transparency and Public Perception Transparency is vital in every part of a successful nonprofit, especially staff and leadership salaries. Establishing a Fair Salary There’s a lot that goes into picking the right number for a founder’s salary.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Benchmarking CFO Leadership 52

VCFO

JANUARY 27, 2022

Since our formation in 1996, vcfo has helped our clients through a number of booms and busts (.com, Implementing EOS, or a similar system, will help you and your leadership team get better at three important things: Vision – Get everyone in your organization 100% on the same page with where you’re going and how you plan to get there.

Benchmarking 81

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VCFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The delta between an owner’s expectations and the market’s potential can be considerable and is based on a number of financial and non-financial metrics. This is a critical number used in valuing companies. You can learn how you compare to your competitors and best in class by benchmarking your performance to a peer group.

Valuation 87

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Spreadym

AUGUST 23, 2023

This helps ensure a smooth transition of leadership and critical roles. This involves identifying high-potential employees, providing them with opportunities for growth, and preparing them for leadership roles. Talent Pipeline Development Build a continuous pipeline of potential candidates for future positions.

Planning 52

Planning Leadership Compliance Analyzing Data 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

BUCKLEY: I think it’s one huge lesson for us, and it’s brought out in our leadership team. 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. So that’s a number I hadn’t seen before.

Leadership 108

Leadership Investments Profit and Loss Technology 108

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The newly renamed fund also recast its mission, telling investors it would pick companies better positioned to capture ‘climate opportunities’ relative to those in a broad benchmark. . Prior to that he spent over 20 years as a trader and analyst at a number of securities firms and hedge funds in the New York metropolitan area.

Economics 130

Economics Investments Finance Benchmarking 130

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Prior to founding Journey, Penny ran a consulting and coaching firm called Thrivos Consulting, and prior to that worked in various leadership positions across the financial services industry. They also serve as a benchmark for whether team members are succeeding in their roles on an ongoing basis.

Practice Management 130

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. RITHOLTZ: We’ll talk a little bit about leadership and crew development a little later.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Valuation Construction 52

PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

Good leadership, he said, is good leadership, both on the battlefield and in the boardroom. But within three months, the unit had learned and had grown enough to attain that benchmark and then some — earning it additional challenging assignments, each of which required the soldiers to learn new techniques and technologies.

Healthcare 43

Healthcare Leadership Benchmarking Accounting 43

The Charity CFO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

That’s why it’s dangerous to rely on low overhead costs as a benchmark for effectiveness.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Budgeting Benchmarking CFO 52

VCFO

MARCH 2, 2023

They add foresight that shows what will happen if the current course is maintained and raise decisions that need to be made, beyond just interpreting the numbers. These can be developed using competitor benchmark data for the firm. While revenue and project profitability are rather self-explanatory, utilization is not as clear.

Strategic Planning 64

Strategic Planning CFO Budgeting Planning 64

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

Planful

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Accomodating shifts in business strategy – e.g., M&As or leadership changes that impact data models and KPIs. 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. Responding to regulatory changes. Cost containment.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Reconciliations Data Analysis Technology 40

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

While the number of transactions may be down, the average basket size is up, according to a press release by Whole Foods Market ’s investor relations department. That’s a prayer for “not too much loss” as opposed to “gain,” even as sales and other benchmarks remain north of zero. percent to $99 million. Revenue has also grown by 1.1

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Restructuring CFO Sales 40

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. I had been watching PGIM, I had been watching their reputation and their brand grow exponentially under David Hunt’s leadership. What do they say?

Math 52

Math Leadership Investments Entertainment 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. It could be off on the wage increase number somewhere around there. What, how do you work around those sort of numbers?

Investments 57

Investments Math Risk Management Benchmarking 57

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. ’cause L-I-B-O-R was probably the most important number, certainly in credit, maybe in all of finance. Number one, the economy’s a lot stronger than they thought it was gonna be.

Treasury 57

Treasury Marketing Economics Banking 57

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

Investments 116

Investments Banking Advertising Finance 116

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. You said BlackRock absorbed R3.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 57

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

So it’s got this math angle where it, you know, it’s all numbers, but then there’s this behavioral angle and psychological angle where, you know, it’s, it’s kind of a fun problem to tackle. It’s kind of a silly number, but people are going to think you’re smart or dumb based on that number.

Finance 57

Finance Marketing Numbers Math 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

How do you crunch the numbers on that, and where do you come out on small cap and value? The hedge fund industry, generally, is outperforming their benchmarks. And at the same time, we have also a number of short-term drivers to the markets that we need to take into account. Now, is that historically a very high number?

Investments 65

Investments Marketing Economics Risk Management 65

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

A and, 00:12:27 [Speaker Changed] And my takeaway from that is market timing is one part science, where you’re crunching numbers and looking at history, but you can’t get away from one part art where after you’re watching the markets for decades like him, there’s a an intuitive feel where just something starts to smell wrong.

Investments 57

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 57

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Studies have been done through MIT and through The Economist-published studies where they look at what is that number, “Is it actually 70%?” It may not be appropriate for the family to know the number, but more important for them to know the plan. ” We would say it’s probably closer to 80%, maybe even 85%.

Communication 130

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 7, 2023

If you’re good relative to whatever benchmark you’re posted against, you’ll do just fine. If let’s call it 25 to 30 percent gets paid out to the investment and leadership team. What am I capable of of doing from a development in a mentoring and a leadership perspective? Your business will grow.

Investments 108

Investments Concentration Profit and Loss Economics 108

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? 00:16:40 So there was a way to judge yourself. That’s unbelievable.

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And 00:06:38 [Speaker Changed] Door number one was much better than door number three in, in the circumstances. When we talk about breadth, we’re talking about the numbers of advancers versus decliners. So it’s like, yeah. It, it’s, it’s a totally, it’s, it’s very different.

Marketing 61

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 61

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: You had 1987, you had 1997, you had 1998 there were a number of really substantial. Because obviously fundamental underpinning to the secular bull market, you know, number one is the fact that households are in better financial conditions than they have been since, you know, the GFC. RITHOLTZ: Right. ” RITHOLTZ: Right.

Construction 52

Construction Marketing Valuation Investments 52

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. RITHOLTZ: So you would like to see leadership from the U.S. It’s still a fairly small number. It seems like an easy one, but there’s a lot of missed benchmarking that goes on. We’re going to make a benchmark much easier.

Finance 108

Finance Investments Math Marketing 108