Focus CFO

JUNE 28, 2023

Businesses that have an embedded in-house Chief Financial Officer understand the pivotal role the CFO plays in proactively preparing the business for, and guiding it through, economic and market storms. While we are now mostly through that storm, new economic storm clouds are on the horizon. But that relief will be temporary.

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Economics CFO Forecasting Communication 52

CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

They play a crucial role in strategic planning, risk management, and driving innovation, extending their influence far beyond the finance department. Moreover, the advent of big data and advanced analytics has armed CFOs with tools to forecast trends, optimize operations, and shape company strategies with unprecedented precision.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. It was at Bank One, at the time. It was called the First Scholars Program, and they targeted Liberal Arts majors. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

So you have almost a doubling of the interest coupon paid by some of these businesses against the backdrop of c ovid 19 inflation and some of the economic pressures that come with, with those factors. We are not macro forecasters, but we are macro aware understanding what’s happening in the economy with technicals in the markets.

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Investments Economics Banking Construction 52

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. We dive deep into all sorts of things about running businesses, managing risk, and then when we began talking about his public sector service, we went deep into the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017.

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Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

From the eighteenth century onward, the increasing complexity of economic and political institutions and the increasing abstraction of governance has tended to diffuse impunity from individuals to impersonal forces like “markets.” Employment Situation: “United States Initial Jobless Claims” [ Trading Economics ]. Stats Watch.

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