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898: Making Finance Proactively Persuasive | Russell Lester, CFO, Versapay

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He told me that he thought that I was already ‘doing the work’ and that I should have a conversation with board—so I did,” explains Lester, who would be named CFO of Keap in early 2020. View finance as a teaching part of the organization and empower others to be inquisitive about the data.”

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What South African CFOs learnt from twelve days in Italy

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South African CFOs spent twelve days in Italy attending the annual CFO Alliance Summit, learning from international peers, and bouncing ideas off each other. The public transport was great. The summit consisted of CFOs from Africa, Europe and Asia. Written by Staff writer. These are their takeaways.

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2:00PM Water Cooler 2/2/2023 | naked capitalism

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[W]e examined seven different fine-grained emotions (Anger, Anticipation, Disgust, Fear, Trust, Joy and Sadness) at a city-wide level based on large-scale data analysis from social media… The results showed significant differences with regard to the type of place, such as how tweets in London showed significantly more Anger at Transportation and Sport (..)