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10 Weekend Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Wall Street Journal ) 200 Years of Market Concentration : Is this trend an anomaly or part of an ongoing pattern in the stock market? To answer this question, we have collected data on the concentration of the US stock market over the past 235 years, from 1790 until the present. Luxury car sales fell 27%.

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Setting Your B2B Sales Strategy in a Downturn

CFO News Room

For sales teams selling to clients in cost-cutting mode, this requires new tactics. Sellers need to avoid a spread-the-peanut-butter approach and instead concentrate resources on the most promising opportunities. With many organizations, we are seeing sales force reductions that parallel the layoff announcements.

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Forecast Like a CFO, Not a Fortune Teller 

CFO Talks

As a CFO, you arent here to hope the numbers work out. Moving from Static to Strategic Risk-adjusted forecasting is not just about stress testing your numbers. They pull in risk managers, ops teams, sales leaders, and procurement to build a rounded, interconnected view. Its about rewiring how finance interacts with risk.

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1060: Reaching Unicorn Status Through Innovation | Emma Seymour, CFO, Deputy

CFO Thought Leader

Looking back, Seymour tells us she has consistently applied a storytelling through numbers philosophy. If I was to give you a little bit more color on what that means, we leverage demand forecasting to help businesses schedule the right number of employees at the right time.

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Costco Earnings Hurt By Purchase Limits; eCommerce Sales Spike

PYMNTS

It didn’t disappoint on that front, but the most significant numbers came from the warehouse club’s eCommerce sales. Earlier in the week Costco reported net sales jumped 11.7 Comparable in-store sales were up 9.6 Same-store sales were up 12.3 Same-store sales were up 12.3 Sales in Walmart’s U.S.

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How to Read Your Income Statement

CFO Simplified

Here’s how to make sense of the mirage of numbers on an income statement and balance sheet. There are four key numbers you need to take a look at. And what’s important about each of these numbers? Sales, of course, tells you whether your business is growing or not growing. The Four Most Important Figures to Look At.

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Holiday Logistics

CFO Simplified

Most of a companys concentrated efforts go to the creation of what theyre going to sell, and with good reason. Plus, delivering on time can sometimes become a critical aspect of the sale. Not only was a massive number of staff needed to open and categorize each request, but tracking the delivery addresses was an ongoing nightmare.