CFO Talks

JUNE 7, 2022

Due to this unique position, we need to ensure that the Finance Executive that earns our acclaimed CFO(SA) designation , is ready for the future of finance. In developing the CFO(SA) designation, we identified 34 competencies and four pillars that the Modern CFO needs to fulfill to excel in their leadership position.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Still, collaboration is increasingly important between the treasurer and CFO, as each position enters a more strategic stage within the enterprise. “The results are surprising because treasurers typically set very high standards for themselves and the treasury function,” he stated.

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CFO News

AUGUST 13, 2023

Annual reports, account payables, treasury management, forecasting, and legal are some areas where CFOs are trying and discovering the use cases for generative AI (artificial intelligence) in their organisation.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 25, 2022

But this terrible war has huge implications — both immediate and longer-term — that are making every CFO sit up and take notice. That puts the onus on the CFO to manage treasury risks and closely monitor the company’s international contracts. Treasury sanctions across the globe. They can start by checking the U.S.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 9, 2023

There is a market-based estimate of inflation that comes from the US treasury market, where a comparison of yields on a treasury bond with that on a inflation-protected treasury bond of equivalent maturity provides a measure of expected inflation.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Editor’s note: For our Female Leadership in Finance Series, FutureCFO editor Teresa Leung recently had a chat with Sereen Teoh (pictured below), CFO at BIG Loyalty. Sereen Teoh, CFO, BIG Loyalty. And now I'm the CFO of BIG Loyalty, owned and managed by BIGLIFE Sdn. FutureCFO: Can you share with me your finance career journey?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 14, 2023

There are three possible explanations for the divergence: Short term versus Long term : The consumer survey extracts an expectation of inflation in the near term, whereas the treasury markets are providing a longer term perspective, since I am using ten-year rates to derive the market-implied inflation.

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Future CFO

APRIL 19, 2021

cash collected, payment forecasting, sales ledger analysis, bank utilisation, and days sales outstanding. By adding BlackLine AR Intelligence, customers gain critical business insights to manage risk, cash flow and collections, as well as real-time analysis and reports, the firm noted.

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Future CFO

MARCH 16, 2021

FutureCFO: What’d be the challenges facing the finance function and the CFO post-pandemic? Visibility of cash flow, forecasting, fraud, risk management (FX, third party) and real time are the most requested. However, having a cloud-based treasury management solution is never enough.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is especially true in finance-related functions like accounting, procurement, payroll and treasury, and a new survey from Workday suggests chief financial officers are recognizing the opportunities in a more collaborative approach to their positions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Over 400 companies – half of which are Forbes Global 2000 firms – use HighRadius for accounts receivable and treasury management. As we have seen in many of our portfolio companies and past investments, including BlackLine and Coupa , digital transformation is increasingly a CFO priority.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Over 400 companies – half of which are Forbes Global 2000 firms – use HighRadius for accounts receivable and treasury management. As we have seen in many of our portfolio companies and past investments, including BlackLine and Coupa , digital transformation is increasingly a CFO priority.”.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The numbers don’t lie -- or so the saying goes – but they rarely tell the whole story either, just like how the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) encompasses more than just finance and accounting. Once upon a time, “CFO” was a reasonably prescriptive, even possibly slightly intimidating title. There I was, a CFO at 40 years old.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Treasury yield, which helps set borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to corporate loans, settled at 1.930%, its highest close since December 2019. That was well above forecasts from economists who had expected a larger drag from the latest wave of Covid-19 cases. The benchmark 10-year U.S.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Sanjay Patil , executive partner for finance and supply chain transformation at IBM Consulting , ASEAN, says the CFO role is evolving and is now aligned with the priorities of the CEO for the organisation including improved efficiencies and customer experience. Why is artificial intelligence important to the CFO and the finance team?

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E78 Partners

APRIL 13, 2023

To capitalize on these strategic choices, PE firms need to invest in a strong CFO office, personnel hires, processes and systems, and consider partnering with a transaction advisor to build a platform for successful roll-up strategies. E78 Partners offers finance and technology solutions for PE firms pursuing roll-up strategies.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Facebook owner Meta Platforms lost a record $232 billion in market value Thursday after releasing a disappointing financial forecast, while shares of other companies including. 10-year Treasury note ticked up to 1.847% from 1.825% Thursday. The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 3.7% PayPal Holdings Inc. PYPL -6.24%. Spotify Technology SA.

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Simply Treasury

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“If you have to forecast, forecast often” (Edgar R. Need for reliable forecasts. Nobody could deny the importance of having accurate and reliable Cash-Flow Forecasts (CFF). Treasury management is “anticipation”. Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash. Managing cash is easier than forecasting cash.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

In the graph below, I start with two traditional havens for US investors, the US dollar and treasury bonds: Trade-weighted dollar & US 10-year T.Bond Rate. As a result of the events of the last three weeks, forecasters have increased the probabilities of recessions from 15% to 20% for the US and from 17.5% to 25% for the Eurozone.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 6, 2023

” Stocks rallied after the report, and Treasury yields — which move opposite price — fell. But with its fed funds rate at 4.25%-4.50%, the Fed has targeted more rate hikes until it reaches its forecast of 5.1% Gapen said the strong jobs report reinforces his rate hike forecast. You hit it on all three notes.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

moneycorp, has acquired an Australian independent treasury advisory company called the Rochford Group for an undisclosed sum, according to reports. Rochford helps its clients manage how treasury risks affect their balance sheets, cash and profitability. A payments service provider based in the U.K.,

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Future CFO

APRIL 13, 2023

The three years since 2020 saw organisations focus on digitalisation, payment efficiency, security, and cash forecasting. In a 2021 blog post , he posited that one of the biggest challenges facing CFOs and other leaders is predicting and being prepared for a future "when you don't know what is around the bend." "The

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CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 1, 2023

In this Planning Aces episode, host Jack Sweeney and guest host Ben Murray discuss the collaborative organizational effort behind generating business intelligence (BI) and the different places BI resources may reside within a business, with reference to an episode featuring Gary Zyla, CFO of AssetMark. This is Gary Xyla, CFO of asset mark.

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CFO Simplified

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Think in terms of Treasury Management. If you have a cash flow forecast, make sure that all your cash needs are shown on it, and that you have projected out your needs for more than the typical 13-week forecast. The post The Fear of Changing Banks appeared first on CFO Simplified.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Welcome to the CFO Club Africa podcast, where we interview leading CFOs from Africa and beyond. CFO Club Africa is a division of the Chartered Institute of Business Accountants, the professional body for business accountants, financial managers and chief financial officers. Go to www.cfoclub.co.za

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Corporate treasury is now more strategic for the enterprise, meaning chief financial officers and treasurers must be close-knit with their organizations’ boards of directors. More than a third (36 percent) of survey respondents said fraud monitoring and risk mitigation are the areas in which CFOs are most falling short.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 23, 2023

In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bond rate at 0.93% at the start of 2021). from its level at the start of the year.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

That matters, because rising rates will increase the debt service (interest payments the US government must pay on the outstanding Treasury securities). And this one is being undertaken with a sense of urgency. The second is that the Congressional Budget Office projected two years ago that the $30T debt number wouldn’t be hit until 2025.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Now, you can do something else with money, you can invest in treasuries or bonds,” Metzger points out. Metzger also forecasts a growing set of cost challenges for CFOs in the coming year, with high-interest rates and other predictions saying these will stay high.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

That’s if and only if, said Shields, the CFO agrees to share a range of information across receivables, income statements and historical data to the bank on a periodic basis. For the strategic financial institutions (FIs), she said, contextual banking represents both a defensive and offensive opportunity.

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Future CFO

MAY 26, 2020

Asked what the priorities of the financial planning and analysis teams were in 2018, three-quarters of CFOs surveyed by FutureCFO between March and April 2020 picked planning, budgeting and forecasting as a key function of the department. She noted that the CFO function is at an inflection point.

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Future CFO

JUNE 11, 2021

One of the notable changes in the post-COVID-19 era is the growing popularity of Rolling Forecast. Now seen as an essential tool for FP&A, a rolling forecast has the potential to radically transform the traditional corporate budgeting process.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Delving into the key trends shaping the treasury landscape in 2024, the focus is on themes such as staffing challenges, macroeconomic risks, technology adoption, and strategic financial management. Staffing challenges and technology adoption Staffing emerges as a central theme for corporate treasurers.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

The first is the return that can be earned on guaranteed investments , i.e., US treasury bills and bonds, for instance, if you are a investor in US dollar, since it is a measure of what someone who takes no or very low risk can expect to earn. There are two macro factors that will come into play, and both are in play in markets today.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

After the proxy battle, Exxon plans to keep oil output at the lowest level in two decades, a 20% decline from prior forecasts. Wally Adeyemo, Mr. Fink’s former chief of staff, is deputy Treasury secretary. Before the proxy battle, Exxon had planned to increase oil and gas production by 25% over the next five years.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

The cloud treasury and finance management solution provider released its 1H 2017 results last week, highlighting what Kyriba said was record sales growth at 43 percent for the half. a share (surpassing forecasts of $2.75 In a statement, CFO Luka Mucic described the data as reflecting IBM’s “fantastic momentum.”.

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CFO Leadership

MARCH 31, 2022

Cash forecasting is meant to drive smarter business decisions in all economic climates. Many finance teams —empowered by broader treasury digitization and technology breakthroughs — are now embracing new forecasting solutions that use machine learning to harness data and improve confidence. Full Article at Bank of America.

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