Fri.Feb 04, 2022

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CFOs should adopt strategies of activist investors: Gartner

CFO Dive

CFOs should advance beyond the role of reviewer or advisor and serve as an “activist,” crafting a business strategy and investment portfolio that maximizes long-term value.

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Josh Weinberg, Head of Financial Systems and Change at Citizens Advice

Generation CFO

Transformation: to some, it suggests progress, efficiency and radical change, but to others, the term doesn’t sit quite right. . “I tend to steer away from using the word ‘transformation’” says Josh Weinberg, Head of Financial Systems and Change at Citizens Advice. . “In my experience, it has connotations around redundancies and other negativity of change.

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Fewer companies expected to issue low-yield convertible bonds

CFO Dive

The last two years marked a high point for zero-coupon bonds. Rising interest rates are taking that option off the table.

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A Budget for agri-innovation and sustainable growth — D Narain

CFO News Room

The announcements made by the finance minister are expected to accelerate the sector’s growth by focusing on streamlining agricultural value chains to boost farmer incomes and farm productivity. By D Narain. Agriculture remains the primary source of livelihood for roughly 58% of India’s working population and the sector has significant potential for growth, with the ability to accelerate rural development and growth.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Sprinkles' new CFO to guide cupcake maker's growth, navigate inflation

CFO Dive

Like many companies facing rising input costs, Sprinkles recently raised prices, bringing the average cost of one of its cupcakes to $4.50.

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Carlyle’s net-zero pledge sets standard for US firms

Private Funds CFO

More pledges are likely to come after Carlyle became the first high-profile US private markets firm to formalize an emissions plan aligned with a net-zero target.

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Amazon Breaks Record for One-Day Gain in Market Cap

CFO News Room

Investors in big technology stocks have a serious case of whiplash. Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 13.54%. on Friday notched the largest-ever one-day gain in market value for a U.S. company—just a day after Facebook parent. Meta Platforms Inc. suffered the largest-ever loss. The dramatic moves suggest investors are moving quickly to draw distinctions among the growth prospects of some of the biggest U.S. companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates.

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Uncertainty on insider trading rule; Stories from Feb/Mar edition

Private Funds CFO

Firms should update policies after SEC expands insider trading definition; Stories from our February/March edition.

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Cost of a Making a Will

CFO News Room

Let’s face it. The last thing people want to do is plan for their death. There are a lot of important decisions you need to make—decisions you shouldn’t leave to your loved ones. These include saving for and planning your funeral, appointing a power of attorney, designating beneficiaries for all your accounts, setting up your kids—especially if they’re fairly young, planning your estate , and setting up your last will and testament.

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Planning Your Restaurant's Path to Profitability

Speaker: James Kahler, COO of Full Course

Ever wondered where to splurge and where to safely conserve when it comes to operating and growing your restaurant? 🤔 Join James Kahler, COO of Full Course and industry visionary, in this new webinar where he'll talk all about best practices to invest in your restaurant's success! Whether you're a new business or an established restaurant, a seasoned pro or a rookie, you'll learn the keys to sustainable success in this competitive industry.

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Three rules for customer-centric strategic planning

Anaplan

Today, CEOs and their boards are under continual pressure to squeeze incremental profit from their existing business and routinely hit the quarterly earnings figures they promised to the market, knowing that if they repeatedly fail they will soon be shown the exit.

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Omicron Absences Fail to Dent Job Growth

CFO News Room

The U.S. labor market recovery continued in January amid a surge in Omicron infections, even though millions of workers stayed home sick or were idled by temporary business closures, causing many to be counted by the government as jobless. Employers added 467,000 jobs in January , the Labor Department said Friday. That comes even though 3.6 million people weren’t working due to illness, up from 1.7 million in December, when Omicron caseloads began to grow exponentially.

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The Basics of Nonprofit Bookkeeping

The Charity CFO

Do a Google search on nonprofit bookkeeping, and you’ll find page after page of articles on nonprofit accounting. And that’s a problem. Because while nonprofit bookkeeping and accounting are related, they’re not the same thing. Sure, you’ll find overlap between the two roles In many small organizations. And it’s sometimes not clear where the line should be drawn.

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New schemes driving exports: Piyush Goyal

CFO News Room

“No country can rely only on subsidies to promote exports,” he asserted. “India, over a period of time, has been promoting exports through subsidies, but that has not really given us the desired result or given us the huge impetus that one would have expected,” he added. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday that the earlier plan to boost exports through subsidies hasn’t really yielded the desired results, but the new tax remission schemes for exporters, apart from being com

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

As organizations strive for agility and efficiency, it's imperative for finance leaders to embrace innovative technologies and redefine traditional processes. Join us as we explore the pivotal role of digitalization and automation in reshaping what is commonly referred to as the “last mile of reporting”. We’ll deep-dive into why digitalization is no longer a choice, but a necessity for finance departments to stay competitive in a fast-paced environment touching on: 2024 trends for the Office of

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Webinar- Deep Dive into RAR New Features Focusing on Optimized Contract Management

Bramasol

In this exclusive webinar , Bramasol and SAP experts will show how to take advantage of RAR’s new Optimized Contract Management (OCM) solution that makes use of dedicated SAP S/4HANA capabilities. such as improved UI/UX and integration with BRIM. We will also cover OCM’s performance optimization and real-time capabilities as well as other specific features such as day-based contract modifications.

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Business News | Stock and Share Market News | Finance News

CFO News Room

Search Quotes, News, Mutual Fund NAVs ITC INE154A01025, ITC, 500875. Tata Power INE245A01021, TATAPOWER, 500400. Vodafone Idea INE669E01016, IDEA, 532822.

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2022 US Wealth Management Outlook: All Aboard the Crypto Train?

CFA Institute

Almost three quarters of HNWIs worldwide have expressed confidence in crypto.

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Kohl’s Rejects $9 Billion Takeover Bid, Adopts Poison Pill

CFO News Room

Kohl’s Corp. KSS 1.88%. rejected a $9 billion takeover offer by an activist group for being too low, but said it would review other expressions of interest in the department-store chain. The company also adopted a shareholder-rights plan, also known as a poison pill, that makes it difficult for an activist group to acquire more than 10% of the company.

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Register Now: Sneak Peek Into Close Automation SkyStem Web Demo

Technology is rapidly changing the way accountants perform and manage month-end activities. Spreadsheets, email, and shared drives no longer have to slow us down. Join us as we present a "sneak peek" recorded demo of SkyStem's month-end close solution – ART. In under four weeks, your team can start reaping the benefits of month-end close automation by vastly reducing spreadsheets, cut down on reconciliation work, speed up the month-end close, and better manage your remote team.

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Short-termism in Belgian corporate governance

Corporate Finance Lab

A teaser of the opening lecture of Tom Vos on 21 February, 6-8 pm. “The finance world’s short-termism will destroy our communities, economies and the planet” (Sasja Beslik, World Economic Forum , 2017). “Short-termism […] is one of the greatest threats to America’s enduring prosperity” (Joe Biden, Wall Street Journal , 2016). These quotes illustrate that stock-market short-termism is considered a big problem.

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Long Live Ukraine, Taiwan and the Nation-State

CFO News Room

Russia wants to absorb Ukraine and rule its people. China wants to absorb Taiwan and rule its people. The two powers isolate and degrade their much smaller neighbors at every turn and invoke stale grievances to justify conquering them outright. They have served notice on the world that they are prepared to make war to impose their will. Frantic countermeasures are under way, focused for the time being on averting an invasion of Ukraine or a Moscow-backed coup.

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Microsoft’s Videogame Boss and the Long Battle to Reinvent the Company

CFO News Room

The $75 billion deal that. Phil Spencer. engineered for. Activision Blizzard Inc. ATVI 0.89%. is the biggest bet yet that games can go from a side hustle to a core business at the world’s most valuable software company. A Microsoft Corp. lifer and a lifelong gamer, Mr. Spencer has been the chief architect and evangelist for a bigger videogame strategy inside a company that revived its fortunes in recent years largely by focusing on business customers.

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FacePlant – The Big Picture

CFO News Room

. . I first stumbled across Scott Galloway in 2015 via a YouTube video called The Four Horsemen. Those 15 minutes revealed Galloway, an NYU Stern School of Business Brand and Marketing professor, as an insightful critic of the tech landscape. That video led to multiple Masters in Business interviews ( here , here , here , and here ). Beyond that, Galloway forced many people to rethink their attitudes towards growth regardless of the collateral damage it caused.

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Accounting Software and ERP Readiness Guide

In this white paper, we explore the factors to consider in deciding whether the time is right for your Company to consider a new ERP or accounting software, the total cost of ownership and plans necessary to make the potential leap to these systems.

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Concessional corporate tax rate: Govt wants private companies to set up new manufacturing units fast

CFO News Room

Stating that direct and indirect tax collections are going up and have good buoyancy, Bajaj said it means that the corporate sector is also doing well, and India’s tax to GDP ratio could be “highest ever” in the current year. The government wants new domestic companies to set up their manufacturing units in India fast and hence the concessional tax rate of 15 per cent has been extended by a year till March 2024, Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj said on Friday.

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Corporate bond yields jump sharply along with gilts

CFO News Room

Yields on 10-year corporate bonds in the secondary market rose by 15-20 basis points, while those on five-year and three-year bonds saw a rise of 20-25 basis points. By Manish M Suvarna. Corporate bonds yields across tenures and ratings surged sharply during the week, tracking the movement in yields on government securities after the government in the Union Budget announced higher-than-expected market borrowings next fiscal year.

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Bond Yields Surge in Europe as Old Jitters Return

CFO News Room

Government bond yields surged world-wide after a strong report on the U.S. labor market boosted investors’ expectations that central banks will begin steadily raising interest rates to fight inflation. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, which helps set borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to corporate loans, settled at 1.930%, its highest close since December 2019.

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What are some examples of a deferred tax liability?

CFO News Room

In the United States, laws allow companies to maintain two separate sets of books for financial and tax purposes. Because the rules that govern financial and tax accounting differ, temporary differences arise between the two sets of books. This can result in deferred tax liability , when the amount of tax due according to tax accounting is lower than that according to financial accounting.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.