CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Growth in employment continued in leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, retail trade, and transportation and warehousing. The forecast unemployment rate was 3.9%, essentially equal to the actual. Job growth was much stronger than the estimate of 150,000, as compiled by Dow Jones.

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CFO Share

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The uncertainty of inflation creates strategic business forecasting challenges for managers and business owners. As demand for goods outpaces supply, businesses often stockout of goods or are unable to transport them quickly enough to satisfy customer timelines. Consumers unable to afford goods or services. Raw material cost increases.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 17, 2022

When it comes to the future of jobs in Asia Pacific, Forrester forecast recently that the working populations in the region's five largest economies — India, China, South Korea, Australia, and Japan — are more at risk due to physical robot automation than Europe and North America, said Forrester recently. . South Korea.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As a CFO, this problem is multi pronged: CFOs are executives who need to worry about having enough talent on board- specifically for those under their jurisdiction in the finance department, but also in the company as a whole. Having to pay more for recruiting or retaining employees directly affects the company’s finances.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Vytal uses the data to train a machine-learning algorithm that forecasts container-needs for each partner in the network and creates load-balancing routes for exchanging and delivering needed packaging between partners. Moreover, it allows Vytal to optimize transportation planning.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 27, 2022

Rising inflation and persistent supply chain issues are adding a new layer of complexity as CFOs and their business partners develop forecasts for the upcoming year, said Vince Keenan, senior director, research in the Gartner Finance practice.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

uses connected-device software and sensors to monitor store occupancy, enable smart checkout carts, track transportation systems, and regulate temperatures in pharmacy refrigerators—most recently to ensure Covid-19 vaccines are stored in optimal conditions, said. Kroger CIO Yael Cosset. Photo: The Kroger Company. annually to roughly $1.5

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Future CFO

AUGUST 13, 2023

The figures in the forecast of global business travel and events costs are based on data from more than 70 million ticketed flights, over 125 million hotel room night bookings and more than 30 million car hires covering data from 2018 to the present, GBTA said. increase forecast this year. in 2023 and 2.7% YoY to $161 in 2022.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2019

As John Zimmer, the firm’s co-founder, said on the call, the company remains focused on transportation, with recent bike share programs in cities such as New York and San Francisco extending into late in the next decade. (By Lyft forecast that revenue would grow to as much as $3.3 alone, the consumer transportation market is $1.2

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He joined oil and gas company BG Group in their budgeting and forecasting team to broaden his management accounting and reporting experience. After a few other job roles, he became UK finance director at taxi transport and technology company Gett in 2018. This provided great grounding, he says, particularly in financial accounting.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Russia has said it will not sell to any countries that participate in the price cap scheme, and Jaishankar has repeatedly stated that India cannot afford to buy oil at high prices – at least not without undermining its economic growth, which is forecast to be 6.1 percent in 2023, the fastest-growing major economy in the world.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

XPO Logistics, one of the world’s largest transportation and warehouse operation companies, is looking for a buyer for $1 billion worth of bonds to refinance its debt following the loss of its biggest customer, which Wall Street analysts say is Amazon. Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky said India was a large concern.

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Future CFO

MARCH 22, 2023

More than one-third of the exporters (36.5%) would increase shipments through Hong Kong, after cross-boundary land cargo transport was normalised, driven primarily by end-user requests and a preference for storage, sub-packaging and processing to be done in the city, the council added.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

The adjusted loss per share was better than Wall Street had seen, too, at 68 cents, while the Street had forecast $1 a share in losses. Lyft CFO Brian Roberts said that the company has been able to institute pricing increases in a few select markets, beginning in June. million, better than the $809.4 million Wall Street expected.

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ProCFO Partners

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Goals and strategies” generally indicates revenues, profits, forecasts and models. Managing KPI’s for the future is and will always be a cornerstone of annual planning, and your CFO should be a crucial part of those discussion. This is perhaps most true with personal connection. How are those practices being systematized and processed?

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Future CFO

APRIL 6, 2022

This dramatic rise in the concern about operating costs has played out over the last year and tracks the effects of rising energy and transport costs caused by supply chain shortages and disruption. Compared with previous forecasts, global growth may be reduced by as much as one percentage point this year, to around 3.25%.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

The transportation company reported results Wednesday (Aug. The adjusted loss per share was better than Wall Street had seen, too, at 68 cents, while the Street had forecast $1 a share in losses. CFO Brian Roberts said the company has been looking to win on “brand preference…not coupons.”. million, better than the $809.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The story for the ride-hailing operation back then was about moving into new markets — not only new geographies but newer forms of transportation such as scooters — and having all that action fuel continued growth. New use cases may emerge with, say, uptake in using Lyft for non-emergency medical transportation. Lyft Moves.

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Future CFO

MARCH 20, 2023

Today, 34% of companies have inventories exceeding 90 days of turnover, with four sectors noticeably most exposed: transport equipment (46%), textiles (39%), electronics (38%) and machinery equipment (36%). Allianz Trade forecasts that global WCR to remain broadly stable. In 2023, more of the same.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

According to WTW, it surveyed 500 global executives from 250 top firms across 20 countries in retail, manufacturing, leisure and hospitality, transportation, NGOs, and charities, including senior executives who are based Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Singapore and responsible for risk strategy across their organisations.

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Future CFO

JULY 30, 2020

The lasting effects are critical for companies that were already the most fragile before the crisis and are now among the sectors —transportation, automotive, non-essential retail, as well as hotels and restaurants — hit the hardest by measures to contain the pandemic, the trade credit insurer noted. from our estimation of -0.6%

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Within infrastructure, one of the key focus areas is leveraging multimodal transport infrastructure to reduce logistics costs, thereby improving India’s overall competitiveness.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The strengthening of roads, railways, airports, ports, mass transport, waterways and logistics infrastructure will help facilitate faster movement of people and goods across India by improving the connectivity and create a significant number of jobs for the youth in the country, thereby putting the country’s economy at the forefront.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

WEX CFO Robert Simon said the North American Fleet business grew by 13 percent and the firm’s over-the-road business was up by 9 percent, driven in part by new customer gains. Said Smith: “It was fairly pervasive, where the kind of the call-outs being transportation and wholesale trade were a little bit worse.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

WEX CFO Robert Simon said the North American Fleet business grew by 13 percent and the firm’s over-the-road business was up by 9 percent, driven in part by new customer gains. Said Smith: “It was fairly pervasive, where the kind of the call-outs being transportation and wholesale trade were a little bit worse.

Healthcare 40

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2020

During what is widely forecast to be an economic catastrophe equivalent to the Great Recession of 2008 or even possibly the Great Depression of the 1930s, it is easy to feel scared, small and deeply uncertain right now. We’re doing what we can,” Uber CFO Nelson Chai told CNBC in a “Squawk Box.”.

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Future CFO

JULY 4, 2021

After taking into account a basket of factors, we decided to revise Hong Kong’s export forecast in 2021 upward from 5% to 15%, albeit from a low base,” Kwan said. The global economic recovery is likely to be highly uneven. This represents the biggest rebound since the city’s recovery from the global financial crisis in 2010.”.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Soaring transport costs (60.2%), disruptions to logistics and distribution (53.2%) as well as difficulties in sourcing raw materials/parts and components (41.4%, up 16.8 Survey highlights. More local exporters (87%, up 20.4 percentage points from the previous quarter) said the pandemic had negatively affected their business.

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Future CFO

JULY 13, 2020

The on-going COVID-19 pandemic has irrevocably disrupted the global economy at an unprecedented scale – forcing manufacturing facilities to shut down, grounding thousands of land, air and sea transportation, and compelling companies to adapt work-from-home arrangement when authorities put quarantine measures in place.

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

raw material, inbound freight, internal transport costs) All conversion costs (e.g., This translates to purchasing power as many vendors are willing to make concessions to keep customers who know how to forecast their needs. Forecasting Sales and Applying Seasonality Sales is also a pivotal part of the inventory turnover equation.

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CFO Network

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Specifically, it will be critical to consider the impact of rising and sustained inflation in our next year forecasts. Not only will these inputs cost you more, but transportation and logistics costs will rise as well. CFO Network is uniquely positioned to assist in these exercises. Planning for these impacts is very important.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. I am writing this post, in the aftermath of Tesla’s earnings report, and the stock is up in the after market, perhaps in reaction to the fact that the company beat its earnings per share forecast, the least meaningful part of any earnings report.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

McMillion forecast earlier this week that shoppers wanting to pick up and ask for delivery would “become the new normal.” Amazon pays the drivers, who work for a company called MV Transportation that runs a shuttle service for the tech giant. Even Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon doubts it.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Uniting data from marketing, sales, procurement, production, transportation and finance, IBP creates one robust decision framework for stakeholders by removing organizational and technology barriers and aligning and synchronizing plans across strategic and tactical time horizons. . More accurate forecasts and what-if analytics. •

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. I am writing this post, in the aftermath of Tesla's earnings report, and the stock is up in the after market, perhaps in reaction to the fact that the company beat its earnings per share forecast, the least meaningful part of any earnings report.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

In the cases of oil and natural gas, direct derivatives such as fertilizer, plastics, and transportation would be hit hard, more remote sectors (such as housing and services) less so. Further, the amount that seemed desirable would depend also on the rate at which growth was forecast to resume in the absence of a stimulus policy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

The travel industry, in one case, could take a forecasted $820 billion revenue hit as international business trips, for the most part, have been suspended. And Princess Cruises stopped operating its cruise ships for two months after two boats transported passengers who had the virus.

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