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Moody’s: China's strong rebound broadens amid rising risks

Future CFO

Output losses due to the pandemic led to a jump in economy-wide leverage in 2020, and a plunge in capital productivity, the firm added. Manufacturers of communication and electronic equipment led the recovery, followed by manufacturers of electrical machinery, automobiles, chemicals and medicines, the firm pointed out.

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Pandemic Supply Chain Pivots, Cross-Border Conversion, P2P Payments Top This Week’s News

PYMNTS

FDIC: US Banks See Chargebacks Soar, Profits Tank Due To Pandemic. Bank profits in the United States took a 69.6 The profits just hit $18.5 billion as the COVID-19 health crisis keep making lenders write off debt and stash billions to prevent losses at a later time. percent hit for Q1 compared to the same period in 2019.

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Behind the digital transformation mindset

Jedox Finance

To discover what will work best for your manufacturing business, there are a few questions that will help shed light on some of the overall aspirations that drive the digitalization mindset as well as a few of the biggest foreseeable challenges that can hinder maximum potential. Perhaps they have even started to occur at a larger scale.

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Inventory Management in Manufacturing

VCFO

How Attention to Inventory Can Make or Break Manufacturers A major factor in determining the success of a manufacturer is how well it manages its inventory. When manufacturers have too little inventory, they can’t fully meet customer demands and lose out on revenue as a result.

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10 Tips CFOs Can Use to Put AI in Finance to Work Today

Planful

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 But as new technologies enable more companies to increase efficiency and profits, the pressure to adopt will soon reach a tipping point.

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American Express, Intel, Silvergate Capital and more

CFO News Room

Intel — The chipmaker saw its shares drop nearly 7% after its latest financial results missed analysts’ estimates and showed significant declines in the company’s sales, profit and gross margin. The company also forecasted a loss for the current quarter.

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

The Value of Intangible Assets Accounting has historically done a poor job dealing with intangible assets, and as the economy has transitioned away from a manufacturing-dominated twentieth century to the technology and services focused economy of the twenty first century, that failure has become more apparent.

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