CFO News Room

JANUARY 21, 2023

Originally published at openDemocracy The 2023 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos started five days ago amid an air of pessimism. It is hardly a surprising figure given 2022 ended with global stocks having fallen by nearly 20%, with market losses of $30trn, the worst since 2008. He is on Twitter at: @ProfPRogers.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 19, 2022

Additionally, the bottom quartile (perhaps even half) of wage earners had been driving Deflation, not Inflation for decades as minimum wage lagged inflation, productivity, corporate profits, and (especially) executive comp. When big reversals occur, the dynamics of that risk/reward ratio change, often leading to losses.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 25, 2024

In a nutshell, companies are starting to view CFOs as smart investments rather than just expenses. She led Oracle's transition to cloud computing which skyrocketed the company's industry status and has successfully guided Oracle through challenging economic periods. Highest Paid CFOs in the World in 2024 1.

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CFO Leadership

JANUARY 25, 2024

BUSINESS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS Financial planning and analysis, profitability reporting and analysis, strategic planning, and enhanced data analytics (collectively, BP&A) are among the highest-ranked priorities for CFOs and finance teams to address in the coming year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

As the year winds down – and holiday shopping picks up – clarity is emerging about which retail investments might pay off in the new decade, and which merchants might be in trouble. The two retailers cut their annual forecasts for the second time this year. They even recently sold off ModCloth , reportedly at a loss.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

billion impairment charge and $17-22 million in first-quarter losses. The company retracted its 2020 forecast for gross bookings, adjusted net revenue and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). Second-quarter losses are estimated to be $60-$80 million. . “As

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

There is some risk to using past performance to inform your long-term plans, and this can be compounded during times of economic uncertainty. During turbulent times, your business can forecast and do scenario planning for the future with our forecasting and scenario planning tools at Centage. What Is Financial Forecasting?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

banks aren’t fooling themselves — they’re likely in for a long stretch of low interest rates putting a burden on their profits, the Financial Times (FT) reports. JPMorgan Chase cut its forecast by $1 billion, now expecting $55 billion as compared to $57 billion last year, FT wrote.

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CFO Leadership

JANUARY 5, 2024

Business planning and analysis Financial planning and analysis, profitability reporting and analysis, strategic planning, and enhanced data analytics (collectively, BP&A) are among the highest-ranked priorities for CFOs and finance teams to address in the coming year.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A study by the University of Baltimore and Excel-based FP&A company, , DataRails , lays out the full economic costs of businesses sticking with manually prepared financial reports. The scope of manual work is also quite large and covers categories such as budgets, month-end closes, and forecasts. Breaking down the Math. Conclusion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Citi still reported credit losses, but those declined to $1.9 But stabilizing aside, consumers continued to struggle through the economic downturn, while extremely low interest rates ate up profit margins on lending. billion of loan-loss provisions in the quarter. billion from $2.2 billion from $7.9

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 4, 2024

Cash Flow Management Tips to Apply to Your Business Problem 1: Misreading Cash Flow and Profit Cash flow is about tracking how money moves in and out of a business. Profit, however, is what's left over after you take away all the costs from what you earn. But that's not always true. But that's not always true.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

European banks have been forced to slash more than 60,000 jobs as they face falling profitability, The Financial Times reported on Saturday (Dec. France, Spain and Switzerland have suffered due to Brexit, slowing economic growth, increasing regulations and the European Central Bank’s negative interest rates.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Leeds may own shares in some of the investments mentioned, in which case the newsletter will clearly indicate that fact. Since then, the stock price has seen continued losses as food producers faced immense cost pressures from inflation. million suggests that the company is successfully clawing its way to profitability.

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Jedox Finance

APRIL 4, 2023

Working capital indicates how readily organizations can withstand disruptions and uncertainty, such as economic downturns, inflation, and recession. Positive working capital indicates the organization can fund its operations and invest in future growth. Table of Contents What is working capital?

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Jeff Ryan , MD of AWCape, a Platinum Sage business partner for HR, payroll and financial solutions South Africa’s Budget Speech for 2023 is an eagerly anticipated event for CFOs and financial leaders alike, as it provides insight into the government’s economic priorities and plans for the year ahead.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As alleged, Gutemberg Dos Santos played a key role in an international investment scam that promised extraordinary rates of return on phantom investments in cryptocurrencies, defrauding victims of tens of millions of dollars,” said Acting United States Attorney Audrey Strauss in the release.

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CFO Share

MAY 5, 2023

The following are some strategies that we deploy with our clients during slowed economic growth. Forget 20%+ growth targets; 1-5% growth during an economic downturn is great for most businesses – certainly better than losing money. Throw out the playbook from the boom years and adopt strategies for business growth in a recession.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

a share, missing Wall Street estimates of $1.34, but revenue beat forecasts of $8.66 The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the worst economic downturn in decades, with mass layoffs and lost revenues. American Express reported third-quarter earnings of $1.30 billion, coming in at $8.75 billion, down 20% from last year’s $11.0

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Are media buyers burning through budgets at the last minute just to preserve them for a better shot next year, or will the ad rebound collectively help recoup 2020 losses with holiday sales? billion, while profits jumped 29 percent to $7.84 billion in revenue and profits of $5.53 Google parent Alphabet Inc.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In October 2022, the International Monetary Fund warned that inflation — combined with central banks’ interest rate hikes designed to fight it — could threaten the entire global economy, a good reason to understand what causes inflation and how to manage this gradual loss of purchasing power. . What is inflation?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This essay is forthcoming in the Review of Keynesian Economics and is posted here with the permission of the editor. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website 1. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and a Professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin. Contact: galbraith@mail.utexas.edu.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you review those valuations, you will notice that in each valuation, my story for the company expanded, and my valuations increased, but the market price for the company jumped even more, leading me to conclude in each of them that it was not a company that I would invest in.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 26, 2019

Banks in these markets are among those with the strongest underwriting standards and risk controls in the region, but the downturn in economic conditions would test asset quality and add to their existing profitability challenges, the rating agency noted. Chinese GDP growth would trough at 3.4% in 2021, the company said.

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Planful

APRIL 16, 2021

Investing in business growth now can help you inform future decisions. Some growth investments aren’t necessarily competitive drivers. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can increase market share, but they require big upfront investments. dollars —that’s almost two trillion more than the previous year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Interestingly, it was reported that SoftBank had mulled an investment in Stripe – the same SoftBank that had (and has) skin in the game with WeWork. The European FinTech TransferWise has logged profits for three years running, and the latest results show that revenues were up 53 percent year over year to 179 million pounds.

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Planful

JANUARY 11, 2022

And as the economic recovery continues and business operations slowly return to normal, the digital surge shows no signs of slowing down. Consistent with their 2018 forecast, McKinsey’s late 2020 study found that organizations that invested more in digital than their competitors were twice as likely to report outsize revenue growth.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Hit particularly hard in the crisis are small, individual investors like Isaac and Bless Boahen, who saved and invested for months so she could fund an economics doctorate. billion) are tied up in investments, more than a third of the 25 billion cedis in assets that private fund managers oversee for retail and institutional investors.

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CFO Share

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Don’t get me wrong – employee satisfaction definitely affects profits. Productivity is the net of all efficiency gains and losses. The Finance Team works on highly collaborative projects like strategic business forecasting , pro forma services , and due diligence services. Slower delivery due to difficulty collaborating.

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

Think of pro forma statements as a monetary crystal ball, a guiding financial forecast. Pro forma income statement The income statement (also known as the profit & loss or P&L statement) mainly evaluates revenue and operating expenses, along with other metrics related to each like cost of goods sold (COGS) or net income.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the first, I will look at the grocery business, both in terms of growth and profitability of grocery stores, since Instacart, as an intermediary in the business, will be affected by grocery business fundamentals. On the profitability front, the grocery business operates on slim margins, at every level.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To deliver this growth, I did assume that Tesla would have to invest large amounts of capital in capacity, and that this would create a significant drag on value, resulting in a equity value of just under $10 billion. In subsequent valuations, I modified and adapted this story to reflect lessons that I learned about Tesla, along the way.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Can these patterns successfully inform future investments? It’s rooted in the idea that investors and businesses and economic cycles have regular patterns. One of the key things is if the market or the stock or the sector is tracking that pattern closely, then, you know, gains, beget gains or losses, beget losses.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

In a conversation with economist and author of “Matchmakers: The Economics of Multi-Sided Platforms,” David Evans, in 2009, Co-Founder and CEO Jack Dorsey initially hinted at ambitions of controlling both ends of the payments ecosystem with what he called a “more elegant” payments experience. But profitability has remained elusive.

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