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Finance vs. Accounting

CFO Simplified

A team member in the finance department addresses how a business manages their money, from: Investing and borrowing. Leaders in finance are most successful when they have skills in communication, quantitative analysis, financial planning, and team building. Budgeting and forecasting. Cash flow forecasting.

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CFOs: Do you drive returns that exceed the cost of capital?

Future CFO

Organisations that drove a 6% greater return on invested capital (ROIC) over three years are those built around factors such as unique competitive differentiator rather than external factors like competitive trends, compared to those with cost models focused on external factors such as competitive trends, the research firm noted.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. I mean, it’s an age old thing in investing and trading.