CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Four: Understand Customer Valuation Your customers are the source of your revenue – and your profits. A low valuation customer who typically purchases high margin items later on is a good investment. A low valuation customer who typically later purchases high margin items is a good investment. But how much are they really worth?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The CFO role is multi-faceted and includes everything from financial planning and analysis to business budgeting, financial decision-making, and risk management. Most financial managers have previous experience working in market analysis and forecasting positions similar to this one. Budget Analyst. Investment Banker.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

India-based OYO has filed a valuation report with India’s ministry of corporate affairs indicating that the company did not expect to turn a profit until 2022, Reuters reported on Monday (Nov. Forecasts show two-year growth could rocket to $586.9 billion rupees, the valuation report showed. million in 2022.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This puts more pressure on the CFO, as it is yet another element to keep in mind when budgeting and forecasting. Raising salaries, more flexibility, and upskilling are a few of the options, and some companies are even doing biannual valuations and pay raises, something unheard of only a few years ago.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Narrative and Value As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

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E78 Partners

APRIL 13, 2023

Preqin , the leading trusted industry data provider, forecasts that global private capital assets under management (AUM) will reach a staggering $18.3 This trend was made possible by the staggering amounts of capital available in private markets during an era of lower interest rates and surging valuations.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 5, 2024

P,roductivity The last few years have seen significant advancements in productivity solutions, such as ,, Monday and ,, ControlUP , whose stock valuations have soared. Contrary to being perceived as outdated, finance teams are leveraging these productivity tools in innovative ways, from budgeting to managing projects and assignments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Forecasting Analyst Jaimie Chung said new speakers now have technology that is comparable to the Echo, and that will make other models more attractive. Fair has a mobile app and website that makes it easy to search for and purchase a car while staying within a predetermined budget. Pinterest Mulls April 2019 IPO.

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The CFO College

AUGUST 31, 2021

Help your startup clients stay cash flow positive with good budgeting and planning services. Using a rolling cash forecast is a value-add service you can provide to assist in cash forecasting. A rolling cash forecast will normally look forward 6 or 9 months, and each month the oldest month is removed and a new month added.

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Creative CFP

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A key step in assessing the viability of a business plan is forecasting what could be achieved, taking into account as many factors as possible. A Financial Model, as the name suggests, seeks to model the potential performance of a business by combining relevant inputs and assumptions into a financial forecast.

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Creative CFP

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A key step in assessing the viability of a business plan is forecasting what could be achieved, taking into account as many factors as possible. A Financial Model, as the name suggests, seeks to model the potential performance of a business by combining relevant inputs and assumptions into a financial forecast.

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CFO Leadership

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The valuation of a currency hinges to a large extent on an assessment of the strength of the economy it represents and the resulting trajectory of yields. The valuation required is in an important sense a two-dimensional exercise; it must include some degree of understanding of the factors driving both the currencies involved.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

. “Organizations around the world recognize that advanced detection and response capabilities need to be at the core of their cybersecurity strategies, and IT security budgets continue to shift in this direction from a traditionally prevention-centric set of priorities.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Consider the fact, as Reuters did, that firms such as Alibaba roughly doubled in value in 2017 alone – a stock market ascent that seems quite a ways away, given the volatility that has marked the past several months and that has hit valuations by trillions of dollars. Tencent ’s stock has dropped by 25 percent this year alone. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Some of the changes were pretty easily predicted – once the world of physical commerce was shut down by statute, one might have sensibly forecast that the race would go to the players who mostly swiftly pivoted to digital. It was in July when the PO stories started surfacing and potential valuations of $10 billion were floated.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

28 from the pre-release forecast. However, the news that sent the stock price sinking was Grubhub’s forecast for the quarter ahead and the rest of the year. DoorDash raised $250 million in new funding in 2018, and quadrupled its valuation to $4 billion. That miss was brought about by a $4.9 Revenue increased, rising $287.7

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Planful

APRIL 28, 2015

Examples include driver-based rolling financial forecasts and true marginal cost analysis for what-if scenarios. . The widening gap between what accountants report and what decision makers need involves the shift from analyzing descriptive historical information to analyzing predictive information, such as budgets and what-if scenarios.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

In the age of sky-high valuations, brands will look anywhere for hard numbers that prove they’re actually worth what they say they are. We believe that we can tap into incremental video budgets when we put those features in place.” percent rise year over year. .

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This trend makes SaaS valuation increasingly important. This makes determining an accurate SaaS valuation difficult. By ensuring that the appropriate methods and models are used, SaaS companies can attain more accurate, higher valuations that provide leverage when seeking financing or negotiating sales.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

28 from the pre-release forecast. However, the news that sent the stock price sinking was Grubhub’s forecast for the quarter ahead and the rest of the year. DoorDash raised $250 million in new funding in 2018 and quadrupled its valuation to $4 billion. That miss was brought about by a $4.9 Revenue increased, rising $287.7

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Planful

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The widening gap between what accountants report and what decision makers need involves the shift from analyzing descriptive historical information to analyzing predictive information, such as budgets, cost estimates and what-if scenarios. Obviously, all decisions can only affect the future, because the past is already history.

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

Think of pro forma statements as a monetary crystal ball, a guiding financial forecast. Other use cases include budgeting and analyzing mergers and acquisitions. Finally, since a pro forma financial statement often projects a year or two down the line, they can also be used to determine the valuation of a company.

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BlueLight

AUGUST 21, 2020

From there I was recruited by Coopers & Lybrand in San Francisco to join their valuation group?—?before We cover fundraising, board meetings, financial forecasts, dashboard, cap table, banking relationships, etc. that also doubles as a near term cash flow budget?—?is before they became PricewaterhouseCoopers. Accounting ?—?Many

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

Ensuring Proper Inventory Valuation When inventory is not valued properly, turnover ratios return false information, affect cash, and cloud understanding of how investment in inventory is affecting the business. Conversely, overstating inventory valuation will lead an organization to think it has too much inventory on hand.

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Planful

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Valuations are a classic example of hole-filled financial reporting. History is riddled with companies that went public based on inflated valuations and false narratives. WeWork expected to offer shares to the public at a $47 billion valuation. If you want to build shareholder trust, start with the data.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

trillion valuation by 2023, according to Allied Market Research — powered by a mesh of corporates, sponsors, planners, venues and suppliers, ranging everywhere from security to snacks. And yet, analysts noted, budgets are not expanding as event complexity grows. ”

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. MILLER: Well actually I thought, leading up to the great financial crisis, I thought to myself, we’re going to be out of business within a couple of years because nobody wanted an independent valuation. What are the, you know, I’d literally have it in my handheld.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Businesses that set up operations, raise debt or make investments in other jurisdictions can experience devastating valuation shocks as exchange rates change. Bank forecasts can be useful for understanding the consensus, but not in planning for the future. The short answer is: no. Many try, of course.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

Everything was the same except, Chicago had in its budget to give me money for airfare to go visit. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. But we don’t trade on a 10-year forecast. Chicago versus Stanford, I got into both. RITHOLTZ: Yeah. ASNESS: They offered a stipend.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

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%. I can’t imagine the present occupant of the White House is happy with that sort of inflation forecast. TROPIN: Correct. TROPIN: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

And you know, it’s the same thing when valuation gets outta control too. It will come home to roost at some point, but doesn’t mean the valuation can’t get worse. Valuations are tight, they’re tight for a reason. Remember everybody forecasted it, right? We, we continue to see that left and right.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So I think, you know, one of the problems I think you, you have is that the Fed Reserve does publish a forecast, the Summary of economic projections, which is the forecast of all the 19 FMC participants. But those forecasts are, you know, not particularly reliable. And I thought, oh boy, we’re in big trouble.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Also, energy prices are 3% of a family’s budget today; it was triple that in the 1970s. Humans just are not good at forecasting their own future state of mind and what actions they might take at some distant point in time. This is a big shocker but perhaps it shouldn’t have been. Gasoline costs the same as it did in 2011-12).

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