Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Imagine replacing “stories” with “numbers” in these lines. While everyone understands good stories only some of us understand numbers, so they can never be the common denominator which we use to communicate to our audience. Hence, rather than leading with numbers FP&A must lead with stories to be heard.

Communication 40

Communication Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Cost Analysis 40

VCFO

JANUARY 27, 2022

Since our formation in 1996, vcfo has helped our clients through a number of booms and busts (.com, Be sure you are communicating your value proposition in all that you do. Healthy – Help your leaders become a more cohesive, functional, healthy leadership team. The Perils of Inflation. Know Your Value Proposition.

Benchmarking 81

Benchmarking Restructuring Leadership Planning 81

Planful

JANUARY 11, 2022

As technology crunches the growing volumes of data, soft skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication will become crucial for Finance to succeed. #1 Consider how the State of Pennsylvania overpaid a school district by half a million dollars because the spreadsheet data supplied by the district inflated enrollment numbers.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Profit and Loss Reconciliations 40

Planful

MAY 24, 2017

This was the focus of the New Jersey Chapter of the CFO Leadership Council at its May 2017 panel discussion titled “How Much Risk Is in Your Risk Management?” Moderated by Angela Tise of the CFO Leadership Council, the panel included Claire Doherty, Director of the Risk Consulting Practice at KPMG, Brian J.

Risk Management 40

Risk Management Prioritization CFO Leadership 40

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

For a dairy manufacturer, carrying out FP&A remotely is creating a different sort of challenge. Process delays and slow communications, coupled with restrictive lockdowns, led to slower payments, increased financial risks and stretched service centers. He noted that this is not an FP&A problem but a leadership one.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Forecasting Planning Foreign Exchange 52

CFO Talks

DECEMBER 16, 2021

When we came back, I joined a manufacturing company in Johannesburg for about five years and since then I got an opportunity to get involved in the agricultural side and that’s when we decided to move to a smaller suburb, which is great for the kids, and not a lot of traffic like I used to have in Johannesburg.

Problem Solving 68

Problem Solving CFO Auditing Accounting 68

CFO Talks

DECEMBER 26, 2021

JOHANNES SEEFRIED: Absolutely, we had discussions in early 2020 that we would move to South Africa, and we had also been here for a look and see but then we were not allowed to come because the numbers were peaking, and South Africa moved into a lockdown.

CFO 68

CFO Construction Finance Education 68

CFO Simplified

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

If you hired a consultant who has worked exclusively with 20 manufacturers in your specific industry and they’ve given the same advice to every single one of those 20 companies that are competitors of yours: . Internal communication. Your CFO will be in constant communication with other leadership roles in your company.

CFO 52

CFO Strategic Planning Communication Forecasting 52

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

RGE , a Singapore-headquartered group of resource-based manufacturing companies with global operations, detailed how the treasury and cash management functions are being performed within the group to maximise resources and address issues gearing towards excellence in such areas.

Cash Management 52

Cash Management Treasury SAP Communication 52

Planful

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In reality, a company’s financial report can be more flimsy—involving estimates and judgment from leadership that’s far from the truth. Let go of spreadsheets—error-prone, inefficient, and often hindering—and move toward technology that allows you and the shareholders to trust the numbers. Create Detailed, Transparent Reports.

Financial Reporting 40

Financial Reporting Valuation IFRS GAAP 40

Future CFO

AUGUST 27, 2023

Businesses face a tremendous number of uncertainties. For example, Oliver Li , treasury manager at Asia Pacific at FMC Corporation , assessed the business value of moving some manufacturing from China to Egypt as the former faced power outages. And this list is only getting longer daily, with many uncertainties remaining persistent.

Risk Management 98

Risk Management Credit Risk Finance Risk Analysis 98

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Last year, for instance, the firm rolled out Invoice Automation to help manufacturers and distributors capture invoice data for their accounts payable departments. Often, too, this situation requires a lot of back-and-forth communication between buyers and suppliers via email or phone.

Accounts Payable 40

Accounts Payable Invoicing B2B Analyzing Data 40

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 18, 2023

When we go back and look at the team that we had assembled in the early 2000s in the Goldman Sachs distressed trading desk, an extraordinary number of those folks went on to become partners and founders of very successful multi-billion dollar asset management firms. WAGNER: You know there are a number of things that occurred.

Investments 52

Investments Profit and Loss Restructuring Accounting 52

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And then I left there and joined a number of my colleagues from Drexel and launched a business that as it turns out, was pretty much a carbon copy of the business we have today. And fortunately for us, there were a number of large scale alternative asset managers, like Carlyle, that were looking to grow in private credit.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Investments Banking 57

Bramasol

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The number of subscribers has grown significantly, from around 370 in 2015 to over 20,000 in 2022. As of the third quarter of 2023, SAP SE reported cloud revenue was up by 23% at constant currencies, driven mainly by the growth of SAP's combined SaaS and PaaS portfolio.

Technology 88

Technology SAP IFRS Compliance 88

CFO News Room

JANUARY 22, 2023

Doesn’t mention that maybe outsourcing US drug manufacturing to China was a mistake. Gilbert Doctorow “Better an unsatisfactory peace than a debacle” – Alexander Mercouris Empire, Communication and NATO Wars U.S. Water California’s next flood could destroy one of its most diverse cities. Will lawmakers try to save it?

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Pharmaceutical Economics Leadership 130

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. So, so you choose a number of specific industries or did you choose them? RITHOLTZ: Wild number.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I sent email to Marc Maron because he had the number one podcast. MCRANEY: Every once in a while, it will be the number one in a different country. It was recently number one in Vietnam. RITHOLTZ: “You Are Now Less Dumb.” I said, how do you do this? RITHOLTZ: Wow. Well, that’s how I went from blog to book world.

Entertainment 118

Entertainment Numbers Finance Math 118

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

For Schumer, though, this is the time when he has to not only step up and assume Democrats’ alpha-dog leadership role that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has occupied for the better part of 20 years, but also defend the majority with a 2024 map that is very ugly.” • Exciting! Biden mulls 2024 plans as Democrats weigh generational shift” [ The Hill ].

Economics 130

Economics Manufacturing Nonprofit Numbers 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hospitalization data for Queens , updated January 14: Deaths Death rate ( Our World in Data ): Total : 1,127,059 – 1,125,895 = 1164 (1164 * 365 = 424,860 deaths per year, today’s YouGenicist number for “living with” Covid (quite a bit higher than the minimizers would like, though they can talk themselves into anything.

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing Advertising Economics Planning 130

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And it’s a story that is so much more than numbers. So he, he followed the polarization in the country around the vaccines rather than necessarily driving it leadership. Barry Ritholtz: 00:07:43 [Speaker Changed] Leadership. Maybe this is my way of unleashing my inner demons. No, seriously. Why the delay?

Manufacturing 57

Manufacturing Healthcare Leadership Profit and Loss 57

CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

From the White House to Wall Street, a growing number of veterans of the 2011 debt ceiling crisis are again watching a story of bluster and brinkmanship play out — and are terrified this will be the time it ends with the country in financial ruin…. — President Biden (@POTUS) January 25, 2023 “Fewer.” “A A little bit easier.”

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing Economics Communication Healthcare 130

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

’” • And of course: New Dem Leadership will vote for the resolution denouncing socialism tomorrow. Though CDC may be jiggering the numbers soon. percent.” • I wondered what the labor force participation rate was: Services: “United States ISM Non Manufacturing PMI” [ Trading Economics ]. “The Lower, naturally.) In the U.S.,

Forecasting 130

Forecasting Economics Communication Numbers 130

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. Anti-vaccine sentiment has exploded on the right, and DeSantis has seized its leadership. ‘I But the Democrats weren’t finished. Cost sharing.”

Advertising 130

Advertising Healthcare Profit and Loss Education 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 6, 2023

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. All the while, McCarthy’s moderate allies, many of whom represent districts won by Biden, are increasingly leery of the number of concessions getting made to the right.

Economics 130

Economics Manufacturing Transportation Education 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Total : 1,115,748 – 1,114,931 = 817 (817 * 365 = 298,205 deaths per year, today’s YouGenicist number for “living with” Covid (quite a bit higher than the minimizers would like, though they can talk themselves into anything. Manufacturing: “United States Durable Goods Orders” [ Trading Economics ]. Perhaps they’re holding a masque?

Economics 130

Economics Advertising Manufacturing Forecasting 130

CFO News Room

JANUARY 13, 2023

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pledges to ‘put aside’ differences with Democratic leadership after Republican concessions to far right” [ WSWS ]. The issues we’re seeing with scientific communication and organization behavior are not new, at CDC or elsewhere (remember that public health is primarily a local responsiblity.

Education 130

Education Auditing Economics Finance 130