CFO Talks

JULY 10, 2025

You need people who don’t just know how to close the books, but how to forecast outcomes, stress test assumptions, and build the kind of decision-support tools that bring insight to life. When your team understands those things, their numbers have context. Their forecasts have credibility. And their advice carries weight.

Finance

CFO Thought Leader

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Predictability means setting realistic forecasts, tightening pipeline management, and increasing confidence in decision-making. Performance emerges naturally once the first two Ps are in placeimproved unit economics, stable revenue growth, and a roadmap toward greater shareholder value, he tells us.

CFO

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He also highlights the importance of building agility in supply chain management and, external focus and benchmarking in forecasting, whilst continuing to be data and insight-led. In weathering these challenges, Shivam notes the importance of having clarity of vision and ensuring resource allocations are clearly aligned with the vision.

Finance

Future CFO

MARCH 3, 2025

By 2025, the traditional image of number-crunching accountants confined to back offices will be a relic of the past. Finance professionals need to be able to tell a story with the numbers, explaining the implications of financial data for the business. The finance function is undergoing a seismic shift.

Finance

E78 Partners

MARCH 3, 2025

While overall 2025 economic conditions have been positive, tariffs, persistent interest rates and geo-political instability are creating uncertainty. Implement budgeting and forecasting processes that withstand market scrutiny. Yet many middle-market companies continue to explore opportunities to go public.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Plans

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As companies in the financial services industry aim to navigate uncertain economic climates, creating a robust financial roadmap becomes essential. By employing advanced forecasting tools and real-time financial reporting, they maintained a healthy cash reserve, allowing them to invest in new markets and technologies confidently.

CFO

Global Finance

JUNE 13, 2025

Broader applications of finance, including the linking of operational weather forecasts with commodity prices and improved monitoring of ESG performance, demonstrate how technology is expanding finance’s remit. Among our nonbank winners, meanwhile, are firms that support banks in everything from compliance to payments.

Finance

CFO Talks

APRIL 9, 2025

Its what threatens your forecasts, shakes investor confidence, and puts your reputation on the line. Internal fraud, misaligned KPIs, and poor system controls can be just as dangerous as economic downturns or global pandemics. And no, risk isnt always external.

CFO

CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Guided by influential mentors, Thobile recognized that finance goes beyond numbers—it impacts decision-making that drives business and individual success. I always loved working with numbers, and mathematics was one of my favorite subjects. What sparked your interest in finance?

CFO

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 6, 2025

How should investors view the relationship between trade policy and inflation in the current economic environment? Gwinn Professor of Economics Masters in Business (coming soon) ~~~ Find all of the previous At the Money episodes here , and in the MiB feed on Apple Podcasts , YouTube , Spotify , and Bloomberg. I think number one.

Economics

CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

From an early age, I was fascinated with numbers and business economics. While other children were captivated with languages, I found elegance of arithmetic, accounting and how it applied to business economics. Numbers were not merely symbols on a page but the building blocks of stories waiting to be told.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 4, 2025

The world throws curveballs economic downturns, rising costs, and sudden shifts in customer demand. Thats why businesses need rolling forecasts instead of rigid budgets. The same goes for managing moneywithout tracking your numbers, things can go wrong fast. If you stick rigidly to the plan without adapting, things fall apart.

Budgeting

Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Growth forecasts indicate further deterioration, with projected GDP of 4.9% in 2025, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Year-to-year changes in our rankings are the result of a number of factors, including expected ratings fluctuations and other elements of our selection methodology.

Marketing

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 1, 2025

This is more than overconfidence, the DKE is how poorly we are at metacognition assessing our own abilities at a specific task Look at the history of performance and the small number of professional investors who outperform their benchmarks over 1, 5, 10, and 20 years. What are some examples of bad numbers? What are some examples?

Investments

Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Now, Market Data Forecast projects a 7.14% yearly compounded growth rate into 2032 for the global FX market. Despite the significant numbers, Stephen Bruel, senior analyst at Coalition Greenwich, notes theres still much ground to gain in FX trading. trillion this year, according to J.P. billion in trade deals during the same period.

Foreign Exchange

Musings on Markets

APRIL 7, 2025

Staying with the safety theme, I looked at US companies, broken down by debt burden (measured as debt to EBITDA): On this dimension, the numbers actually push against the flight to safety hypothesis, since the companies with the least debt performed worse than those with the most debt. The Tariff Crisis?

Marketing

Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

By providing immediate cash flow, SCF helps suppliers avoid the pitfalls of traditional loans that can be challenging to secure during economic downturns. billion by 2033 as economic and geopolitical pressures reshape how businesses approach working capital and financing. billion in 2024 and is expected to reach $15.2

Finance

CFO Strategic Partners

APRIL 14, 2025

Ultimately, lack of financial know-how can leave you unprepared for shifting economic conditions that could undermine revenue and growth. Effective budgeting requires you to get cozy with key data points like year-over-year trends, fixed and variable expenses, profit margins, cash flow data, sales numbers, and departmental needs.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

CFO News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Fed will also publish updated economic forecasts alongside its rate decision, and many analysts expect policymakers to slightly dial back the number of interest rate cuts they expect next year.

Forecasting

Global Finance

JULY 28, 2025

Lenders expect CIB revenues to reach the $100 billion mark by 2030 as the region deepens its economic transformation. Broader geopolitical tensions and global economic shifts, such as inflationary pressures and interest rate cycles, continue to shape investor sentiment across the region,” says Shoeib.

Investments

CFO Leadership

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

While executives understandably have concerns about continuing economic and geopolitical uncertainty, a key part of their strategy will be focusing on what they can control. every quarter just to close the books or working weekends scrambling to find the numbers to update a forecast for a board meeting isnt great for morale.

CFO

Global Finance

MAY 6, 2025

Global Finance:Last month, Fitch sharply lowered its forecasts for global economic growth in light of the burgeoning global trade war. And theres certainly a number of quite small economies where the Rose Garden tariffs were a real shocker. Why did your assessment change?

Manufacturing

The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2025

But before we get to that, let’s start with Bachelor’s in economics from Hamilton, MBA from NYU. And a friend of mine who had gotten fired from this economic consulting firm, got a job at Chase Econometrics, IDC, and said, you have to come over here. Barry Ritholtz : I’m, I’m thrilled to have you.

Investments

CFO Talks

JULY 29, 2025

South Africa doesn’t need more economic theorists or padded panels of advisors. Yet many CFOs stay silent while government decisions directly impact their forecasts, operations, and tax burden. If you understand the numbers, you have a duty to influence the policy. You are not just a number-cruncher.

CFO

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I, I disagree with his forecast for this year, which is 0% chance of recession. WA was the career plan, always economics and finance. And I studied economics in university. And I spent a year in Princeton in the economics department in 95, 96 when Ben Panke was the chairman of the economics department.

Economics

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

Professor Stephanie Kelton teaches Public Policy and Economics at SUNY Stony Brook. They’ve made forecasts, they’ve made predictions about what will and won’t happen, and none of it’s come true. And my trajectory changed to economics by accident. And so then it became finance and series of accidents.

Budgeting

The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

There are a number of people who have said, and I’ve been swayed in this direction, Hey, when you’re 20, 25 years old and you don’t need this money for 30, 40, 50 years, do you really need bonds to offset the volatility of equities? Some crazy number writing a monthly column for them. You can’t execute.

Math

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 6, 2025

00:14:36 [Speaker Changed] That that’s number one. You’ve done a number of major refinancings in and around New York City, six 20 Avenue The Americas is a, tell us a little bit about the work you’re doing at Hudson Bay with private credit and real estate. Probabilities will eventually work in your favor.

Profit and Loss

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 4, 2025

And in my summer in between I worked for Mayor Daley in Chicago on economic development issues. And generally speaking, we are sort of number one or number two in everything that we do, which, which again is a great privilege to work there from that perspective.

Banking

The Big Picture

JUNE 2, 2025

He’s a super intelligent, thoughtful guy, very well versed in business economics and monetary policy. And I was at the time taking introductory to economics, which I really liked ’cause it combined history and politics and math and economics. I found this conversation absolutely fascinating.

Forecasting

Global Finance

JUNE 16, 2025

million citizens and forecast average growth of 5% in 2025, Malaysia is expanding its profile as an investment hub. million citizens and forecast average growth of 5% in 2025, Malaysia is expanding its profile as an investment hub. billion (about US$88.2 year-on-year growth in investment. billion (about US$88.2

Leverage

CFO Dive

AUGUST 5, 2025

Employers added a less-than-forecast 73,000 workers in July, and revisions cut job growth in June and May by a total of 258,000, the BLS said. After release of the less-than-forecast employment numbers, President Donald Trump fired the BLS commissioner, alleging that the bureau “rigged” the data. Unemployment increased 0.1

CFO

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 11, 2025

He calls out a lot of people who get things wrong, especially the doomsayers who not only have been forecasting recessions incorrectly for, I don’t know, the better part of 15 years, most especially since CO. I grew up there, but in a, in a number of other countries as well. So I developed an interest in, in economics.

Economics

Centage

MAY 23, 2022

The current economic circumstances haven’t just resulted in financial uncertainty for millions of Americans. With rolling forecasts, businesses can gain better insight while aligning their sales and production goals with what’s actually happening from a financial perspective. What’s a Rolling Forecast? What’s a Rolling Budget?

Forecasting

PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

While larger enterprises have had the resources to embrace financial forecasting technologies that wield sophisticated tools to bring greater value to that data, smaller businesses have historically been shut out of the market for such financial solutions. . “With the pandemic, the whole world flipped upside down.

Forecasting

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Atradius has recently upgraded its global GDP growth forecast for 2023 to 2.4%, which is a slowdown from 2022 but a significant improvement on earlier predictions. In addition, the firm posted a global GDP growth forecast of 2.0% Emerging market economies (EMEs) will fare better, with forecast growth of 3.9% for 2024. “We

Forecasting

PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

Figures out Thursday from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that the U.S. The spectacular crash was brought on by widespread stay-at-home orders forcing businesses to close their doors and economic activity to all but grind to a halt. That reversed an 11-year expansion, the longest period of economic growth in U.S.

Economics