Future CFO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With growth also high on the agenda of Boards and CEOs, finance leaders must balance cost-control efforts against investments. Suppliers can embed real-time payment instructions in customer communications to simplify invoice processing. This can be used to launch programs to encourage early payments or accelerate late payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

The company almost doubled its revenue and profit numbers while spending more than $9 billion on capital improvement projects. Among those numbers: Operating cash flow increased 42 percent to $51.2 Other capital expenditures went to fulfillment, transportation and investments in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Sound is the ancient method of communication, of commerce, where a promise to sell or buy in days of old would be — and was, and sometimes still is — conveyed by voice, of course, and proximity between buyer and seller. Of that number, he said only 6 million phones are near-field communication (NFC)-enabled. “In

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The data did not reportedly include password information, Social Security numbers or financial information. The cyber thief got a hold of users’ names, billing addresses, phone numbers, plan information, and account numbers. The deal values Paytm’s parent company, One97 Communications , at $16 billion.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

The card offers multiple forms of communication ranging from contact to sound waves and contactless. The FinTech secured a new investment from Frontline Ventures along with ACT Venture Capital. Tiernan Kennedy, the company’s co-founder, told the outlet, “Traditional banking doesn’t work in developing markets for a number of reasons.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Worse, Teletrac Navman concluded, fleet managers’ return on investment (ROI) for the technologies they did adopt has dropped. According to Sid Nair, senior director of transport and compliance at Teletrac Navman, fleet managers appear to be adopting technologies like ELDs merely to maintain compliance.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

Apple flipped a long-held policy in opening up the iPhone’s NFC chip to developers, Chase decided that it can afford to make its premier rewards card a bit less rewarding and Uber took a pass on an investment from Warren Buffet. While the number was previously unlimited, there is now a cap of two guests per visit. Apple Opens up NFC.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

Pune has the highest number of software companies in India (212). As the ecosystem has matured, the country has seen a rising number of successful startups and greater access to funding. Investors will get involved only when they really want to invest,” Gupta explained. The city’s GDP is approximately $48 billion.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Also, in the 1920s, it had recently been ruled unconstitutional to make, transport or sell alcohol (because making a rule against something always stops people from wanting to do it, right?). Scalable costs are investments made so that the business is easy to find for those who want it. The popularity of laundromats grew accordingly.

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Planful

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

We’ve touched on the definition of EPM in a number of other posts, but I thought this would be a good time to define EPM from the Planful perspective. The objective of EPM is to ensure strategic goals and objectives are clearly communicated and understood by managers, and are reflected in their budgets and plans. So here goes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The rise of 5G networks will also enable these devices to communicate more data across longer ranges, which is one of the reasons why investment in IoT is picking up. IoT devices still have a number of security weaknesses that providers must address as the technology becomes a larger part of consumers’ daily lives.

Transportation 76

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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. raw material, inbound freight, internal transport costs) All conversion costs (e.g.,

Manufacturing 73

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

However, IoT is being deployed across the country, and to major cities around the globe, to help improve major transportation systems, reduce traffic, increase security and, in some cases, save lives through the implementation of automated security, street lighting and even flood control. A July report from International Data Corp.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 12, 2022

How diversifying your revenue streams communicates a hand-up, not just a hand-out. (7:40). They’re seeing it as an investment and they are very, very clear on what they want to see that gift do. And now times I’m gonna communicate differently to my donors, that I’m gonna communicate to my, my, in clients.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Emily is the Senior Financial Planner for Archer Investment Management, a virtual Independent RIA based in Austin, Texas, that oversees $170 million of assets under management for nearly 170 families. So, there was somebody on our team that handled more of the enrollments and maybe just an investment change or website help.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

“An iPod, a phone and an internet communicator … Are you getting it? As it turns out, Steve Jobs was only partially right in his iPhone introduction — it certainly was an iPod, internet communicator and phone all in one, but it was also a lot more. These are not three separate devices. This is one device. That’s an estimated $1.3

Communication 60

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

where hospitalization is enormously costly and the number of chronically ill patients from diseases such as diabetes is exploding. billion provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grid modernization investment, he said. Automotive & Transportation. Take as an example health care in the U.S.,

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. So, if you are remotely interested in passive investing, ETFs, indexing, or Vanguard and Jack Bogle, you will find this to be an absolutely fascinating conversation. How did the expertise in ETFs and passive investing come about?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

Profit and Loss 56

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Bramasol

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The number of subscribers has grown significantly, from around 370 in 2015 to over 20,000 in 2022. From an enterprise perspective, the adoption of new Gen-AI applications has triggered a flood of new initiatives and investment. According to McKinsey & Company. trillion to $4.4

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. We also co-invested in an investment recently where we — RITHOLTZ: That’s right. HAMBURGER: — we participated in the same investment. Has that closed?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Revolution is the outgrowth of his family office that does everything from seed to venture, to growth investing. He was instrumental in getting a number of very positive policy actions passed over the past decade. I’ve interviewed a number of people from Revolution. So with no further ado, my conversation with Steve Case.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

On Monday the Supreme Court left in place a ruling that allows the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to issue mask mandates on planes, trains and other forms of transport, as it had for more than a year during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The numbers are indeed massive, however. Transmission. Stats Watch.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

On Monday, the White House announced that it will let the Covid-related public health emergency declarations expire on May 11, 2023… [T]he numbers don’t lie. There has been much debate about the real number of Covid deaths in China, after the virus ripped through its megacities. Though CDC may be jiggering the numbers soon.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 6, 2023

This is hardly surprising, considering Buttigieg is a political appointee who had never managed a major transportation system before being given his Cabinet job. It’s a significant show of momentum for McCarthy, with one person close to Republican leadership indicating that the number of flips exceeded internal projections.

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