CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 16, 2024

Inside The Mentoring Round, Semperis CFO Jeff Bray emphasizes the importance of concentrating investments on the best ideas rather than spreading resources too thinly. He also plans to improve budget reporting to business units and implement stronger governance structures to support scaling operations.

CFO 52

CFO Concentration Budgeting Forecasting 52

Fpanda Club

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

From the FP&A’s standpoint the level of awareness and the level of accuracy can be used as these dimensions and then incorporated into forecasting and analysis. Regular update of information to check those facts against them ensures accurate forecasts based on the one-point estimate or a range with a high level of confidence.

Concentration 130

Concentration Forecasting Risk Management Risk Analysis 130

Jedox Finance

MARCH 7, 2023

Tapping into the Jedox platform and its endless integration capabilities, Jedox created a ChatGPT integration model to show how finance, sales, HR, marketing, supply chain, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) teams can experiment with generative AI in their integrated business planning (IBP) processes. What is ChatGPT?

Planning 52

Planning Concentration Forecasting Finance 52

Future CFO

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Unlike traditional, static budgeting that locks teams into year-long plans, agile budgeting embraces shorter planning cycles, continuous feedback loops, and strategic prioritisation to respond effectively to market shifts and evolving business needs. FutureCFO: Why do finance functions do agile budgeting?

Budgeting 52

Budgeting Concentration Finance Forecasting 52

The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 5, 2023

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) involve a range of activities, including planning, forecasting, budgeting, and analytical tasks, all of which are vital in providing essential support for a company's major business decisions and overall financial well-being.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Financial Analysis Forecasting Budgeting 52

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The CBO said such industries as travel and hospitality were particularly hard hit — with “job losses concentrated among lower-wage workers.”. The CBO’s projections assume that “current laws governing federal taxes and spending (as of Jan.

Budgeting 60

Budgeting Concentration Forecasting Economics 60

The Finance Weekly

APRIL 25, 2022

Most of these steps, which include empowering CISOs, concentrating on business continuity capabilities and investments, and improving scenario planning, intersect with the CFO’s growing role in supporting and financing the organization’s cybersecurity framework. Follow Affairs Consistently.

Finance 107

Finance Forecasting Treasury Concentration 107

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

Walmart has also reportedly created a new insurance subsidiary that’s set up for the moment to sell Medicare Advantage plans. The chain plans to open 500 to 700 “Village Medical at Walgreens” primary care clinics across some 30 U.S. Telehealth in its various forms is where much of the post-pandemic action is concentrated.

Healthcare 87

Healthcare Concentration Startups Retail 87

The Finance Weekly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

It reveals where the company gets its cash and how it spends it on day-to-day activities or for future plans. Use of historical data for forecasting assumptions: Existing historical data is used to generate forecasts for the same line items in the model.

Finance 52

Finance Financial Modeling Forecasting Concentration 52

CFO Simplified

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Forecast and manage cash flow, reporting and more. Develop a cash flow forecast — I hope that you’re not running your company by checkbook. Concentrate on them. But it’s important to have a plan to check some important things regularly. How did you miss the warning signs? Were you checking your oil on a regular basis?

Cash Flow Forecasting 52

Cash Flow Forecasting Forecasting Sales Concentration 52

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This includes raising capital, managing cash flow, accurately accounting for business activity, and forecasting future performance. While this may not be a full-time role in the early growth stages, it does necessitate self-discipline, concentration, and dedication.

Startups 52

Startups Finance CFO Forecasting 52

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Chote Kiatruangamala Chote Kiatruangamala , finance director at Supernap (Thailand) , noted that during 2022, with the global inflation many firms had to downsize and realign themselves more closely to their business volumes while concentrating on improving cash flow.

CFO 98

CFO Finance Leadership Concentration 98

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Recent gains driven by fiscal stimulus have reached deeper into the lower economic strata than the gains we saw in the 2010s, driven as they were by monetary stimulus, and concentrated in stocks, bonds real estate, and businesses, e.g., among the top 10%. We are what we eat, media diet included.

Concentration 140

Concentration Economics Investments Education 140

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

and abroad that the concentration of power amongst a small number of tech companies is curtailing growth in the tech sector, reducing innovation and potentially having negative impacts on the people and businesses that rely on them.”. A potential “Netflix Tax,” which is forecast to bring in more than $1.2

Healthcare 57

Healthcare Marketing Compliance Advertising 57

Centage

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In the end, Excel was never built as a tool to create reports meant to influence how companies plan their financials. Process mapping and planning and the automated workflows of a financial report takes time. When it comes to financial reporting, Excel just doesn’t hold up. Where should the team start? appeared first on Centage.

Financial Reporting 59

Financial Reporting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Concentration 59

The Finance Weekly

JULY 7, 2022

Even now, more than two years after many of these rapid cloud transitions occurred, there are many companies that are still far behind on their cyber security plan. The first one is cybersecurity disclosures (making a company’s cybersecurity plan even more important) and the second is environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management CFO Concentration Securities 52

The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2022

The New Era of FP&A Financial planning is essentially about forecasting and achieving precise results for your company. Traditionally, the FP&A process entails creating a budget, cash flow, profit and loss statement, and balance sheet, then using them to forecast future performance.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Profit and Loss Budgeting 52

PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

What we’re seeing is the retailers that have invested materially and brought a concentrated effort to their digital presence have had the ability to shift online materially [more quickly] and pick up a share of wallet that is actually increasing given that spend in hospitality and travel has nearly disappeared.”.

Concentration 82

Concentration Retail Forecasting Investments 82

The Finance Weekly

JULY 19, 2023

When used effectively, forecasts serve as powerful planning tools , enabling consideration of various potential scenarios, allowing the executive team to devise tentative plans based on multiple projections. Combine Short-Term and Mid-Term Projections Short-term forecasting proves valuable in boosting , KPI.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Cash Flow Forecasting Budgeting Concentration 52

Boston Startup CFO

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Are you prepared to manage the day-to-day of your startup, from recruiting new talent to bookkeeping to financial planning? Overall, CFOs help you with business planning, providing your business plan with essential rigor. If you have a knowledge gap within the ecosystem of your organization, you need to fill it. Courtesy of YEC.

Startups 52

Startups Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) CFO GAAP 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The system assigns scores to each critical component and commodity based on types of risks, such as environmental, geopolitical, lead time for production capacity, and geographic concentration of suppliers. Meanwhile, the company has deprioritized lower-risk categories, with a plan to revisit them in the future.

Concentration 130

Concentration Prioritization Investments Manufacturing 130

Future CFO

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Allianz Trade Global Insolvency Index forecasts insolvencies to increase by +6% in 2023 and at least +10% in 2024. Forecasts for 2024 and 2025 “Generally speaking, we don’t see 2024 as a good year,” Lee says, noting that they expect insolvency trends for the year to go up.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Concentration Economics Risk Management 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S., In 2011, Buffett made a $10 billion investment in the company in support of then-new CEO Ginni Rometty’s turnaround plans. In January, the International Data Corporation (IDC) reported worldwide spending on blockchain solutions would increase to $2.1 billion by 2021.

Banking 73

Banking Investments Concentration Accounting 73

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

What, what was the career plan? Whereas the ETF is designed to be a more straightforward s and p 500 US only equity strategy 00:29:26 [Speaker Changed] And it’s concentrated 35 large cap stocks. I think right now, just in a market cap sense, market concentration, there are a lot more growth stocks.

Valuation 52

Valuation Investments Finance Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 14, 2023

So when Brendan reached out and asked to come on to discuss behavioral finance and financial planning, I felt like paying it forward was the right way to go. We discuss Overconfidence, Anchoring, and Dunning-Kreuger and how they are applicable to the business of managing assets and planning for people’s financial lives.

Concentration 114

Concentration Finance Forecasting Planning 114

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

But they need to be planned for.". Some key tools that emerged as most beneficial to treasurers included physical cash concentration, notional pooling and virtual account solutions. For instance, both cash concentration and notional pooling can enable a treasurer to understand an end-of-day cash position. A Fork In The Road.

Treasury 103

Treasury Concentration Currencies Banking 103

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

The lesson that I have learned not just from the first six months of 2023, but from market performance over the last three years, has been that macro forecasting is pointless, and that trying to time markets is foolhardy. I will be wrong on almost every single one of these forecasts, and there is little that I can or want to do about that.

Marketing 95

Marketing Treasury Currencies Valuation 95

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

What was the thinking behind the O’Shaughnessy acquisition and what are the plans for Canvas? JOHNSON: For quite a while, so we had good plans in place, and then about three weeks later, remember, we were going to flatten the curve with two weeks off … RITHOLTZ: Yeah, that’s right. JOHNSON: Fantastic.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 85

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The USDA forecasts that grocers lose a whopping $15 billion each year in unsold fruits and vegetables. The company sometimes offers some non-perishable food items, such as canned goods and boxes of cereal, but the idea is to concentrate on fresh food as much as possible, Founder and CEO Jonathan Defoy told PYMNTS.

Concentration 57

Concentration Retail Education Forecasting 57

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Second, this is a company that seems to run on hyperbolic forecasts from its founders and top management , that are not just consistently higher than what the company deliver, but often by a factor of three or four. In other words, this is the type of stock that you would put 5% or perhaps 10% of your portfolio in, not 25% or 40%.

Valuation 72

Valuation Profit and Loss Investments Numbers 72

PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

With the vast bulk of cases still confined to China, the economic impact would likely be most concentrated in that country, and the general region. A notable ding to earnings may crimp growth plans, which in turn — eventually — might lead to pressures in the job market. Initial Impact. On Monday, in the U.S., stocks were off by 1.6

Economics 66

Economics Concentration Sales Retail 66

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

But a deeper examination of the trends within individual economies reveals ripple effects that make such forecasting complex. Companies Nestlé SA and Coca-Cola told The Wall Street Journal that as people are paying for data plans to access the internet, they have less cash to spend on other consumer items.

Concentration 40

Concentration Advertising Education Forecasting 40

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, while you can see that concentration in markets, and sales, and trading, once I started really working with our private bank in a meaningful way, I was then able to lead teams of investment counselors and investors. And so, in Q2, we heard a lot that recession wasn’t the base case, but they’re — they’re planning.

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Farhaan Moolla: Innovative Leadership: The Journey of a modern and dynamic CFO Written by: Staff writer In this podcast Farhaan Moolla, a seasoned CFO with a notable career in financial leadership and strategic planning, shared his journey, beginning with his entrepreneurial family background. Farhaan: Sure.

CFO 52

CFO Leadership Accounting Finance 52

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business. Here again, the Disney experience is instructive, where Nelson Peltz's opposition to Chapek's plans clearly played a role in the CEO change this year.

Entertainment 77

Entertainment Profit and Loss Numbers Marketing 77

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

Was the plan always to cover finance? And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. RITHOLTZ: Really?

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

RITHOLTZ: And then we could talk about stock option plans and what is and isn’t above the line deducted. I create these concentric circles for people who have time and say, if you have this much time, try these extra things. And the transition to Tim Cook seems to have gotten much better than anyone was forecasting.

Valuation 114

Valuation Education Finance Investments 114