Thu.Feb 02, 2023

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How CFOs can cut costs using data: BigPanda

CFO Dive

Using data to identify mission-critical investments can help CFOs be proactive rather than reactive as they face a highly inflationary environment.

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7 Small Ways to Be a More Inclusive Colleague

CFO News Room

Workplace inclusion is not a static, one-off act of service. It’s an ever-evolving experience that requires the contribution of every employee — regardless of their level of seniority in the organization — to make each other feel included. To foster inclusion around you, form and regularly practice these seven inclusive behaviors until they become habitual and automatic.

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Checkout.com expands into US, picks CFO from within

CFO Dive

Nirupam Sinha was promoted to the CFO seat as the company’s former finance chief moves on to oversee U.S. expansion.

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Job openings increased in December, but remain significantly lower than March 2022 peak

CFO News Room

Posted February 1, 2023 at 10:51 am by EPI Staff Job openings increased in December, but remain significantly lower than March 2022 peak Below, EPI senior economist Elise Gould offers her initial insights on today’s release of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for December. Read the Twitter thread here. Job openings increased in the latest #JOLTS data for Dec 2022 as hires and separations edged up.

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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager

Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te

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Sony expands CFO’s duties, adding president, COO

CFO Dive

The move will help the company strengthen its management structure, according to CEO Kenichiro Yoshida.

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Splitting the Risk: How to Manage Interest Rate Risk in Project Finance

CFA Institute

How can the two stakeholders in project finance best allocate interest rate risk?

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Stocks moving big midday: META, ALGN, COIN

CFO News Room

The Commission took issue with Meta’s pairing of Facebook Marketplace with its personal social network. Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Meta — The tech giant’s shares jumped 23.28%, marking its strongest day in nearly a decade. Late Wednesday, Meta reported revenue that topped analysts’ expectations and announced a $40 billion stock buyback plan.

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Under Armour's New CEO

Global Finance

Stephanie Linnartz will become CEO of Under Armour after spending 25 years at Marriott International.

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10 Thursday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My morning train WFH reads: • How Extreme Bets Fueled an $11.4 Billion Fortune : A look inside BlueCrest reveals Michael Platt’s many acts — including outsize returns and some harrowing losses. ( Bloomberg ) • Stock, Bond and Crypto Investors Call Fed’s Bluff on Interest Rates : Many are skeptical as central bank says battle against inflation isn’t over. ( Wall Street Journal ) see also Wall Street: We Want Lower Rates.

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Live Demo - Supercharge your Month End Close

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i

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Disagreements and First Principles: The Pushback on my Tesla Valuation

Musings on Markets

I wrote about my most recent valuation of Tesla just over a week ago , and as has always been the case when I value this company, I have heard from both sides of the Tesla divide. Some of you believe that I am being far too generous in my forecasts of revenues and profitability for a company that is facing significant competition, as it pursues growth, especially with questions about who's in charge of the company.

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CEO Salaries Again In The Spotlight

Global Finance

The controversy of CEO pay was also on the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos the week after Apple CEO Tim Cook’s pay cut was announced.

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Budget 2023: Angel tax change likely to impact investment, say start-up CFOs

CFO News

Finance Minister in Budget 2023 has extended 'angel tax’ provisions to transactions involving foreign investors. Until now, these provisions were applicable only to local resident investors. Finance leaders feel that this will make cross border investments complicated and the government should provide clarity on it.

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Clips From Today’s Halftime Report

The Reformed Broker

Final Trades: Uber, Palo Alto, Albemarle & more from CNBC. The post Clips From Today’s Halftime Report appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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GST Changes in Budget 2023: Hits and Misses

CFO News

A lot still needs to be done but it appears that major changes/amendments/clarifications will flow from GST Council meetings and not Union Budget.

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Using Cash Flow Forecasting to Withstand the Downturn

Centage

Businesses talk a lot about budgets, revenue projections, and actuals. However, one of the most important planning tools for a business of any size is cash flow forecasting – and it’s especially important in times of uncertainty. With less cash to count on, knowing your cash flow position has never been more important: how much is really in the bank, how much is available on short notice, what revenues are coming in and when, and what resources are going out.

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Does Budget 2023 strike a chord with corporate taxpayers?

CFO News

The Budget may have appeared upbeat through the macro lens, but a deeper dive into the tax side insinuates the need for more taxpayer friendly measures.

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Why Treasury Trading is Unique in Trading

Finvisage

Why the role of treasury is so unique for a pure-play trading firm Normal corporation : Let us take the case of a manufacturing firm. They have an order book which gives them visibility to their future revenues. They know their forecasted costs required to service that order book. The role of treasury is to monitor the certainty of these inflows and outflows and manage the ensuing mismatch risks.

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Your Accounting Expertise Will Only Get You So Far: What Really Matters

Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. If you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner—and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top (a concept first popularized by Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There ). What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level.

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Insurance companies may seek tweak in Budget that proposes end to a key tax sop

CFO News

Senior insurance executives said suggestions from companies are being collated for submission to the government in the next few days through industry grouping, Life Insurance Council of India.

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CxO priorities: Climate change becomes a top issue

Future CFO

When it comes to CxO priorities, climate change has become a top issue, said Deloitte recently when releasing its 2023 CxO Sustainability Report: Accelerating the Green Transition. The report is based on a survey of 2,016 C-level executives from 24 countries conducted by KS&R Inc. and Deloitte, during September and October 2022. When asked to rank the issues most pressing to their organisations, many respondents rated climate change as a “top three issue,” ahead of seven other CxO priorities

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This too shall pass as India is resilient; some Adani stocks attractive at lower levels: Gautam Trivedi

CFO News

“We have added three stocks in the past quarter. Syrma SGS, we have added Landmark Cars, which recently IPO'd, and Sapphire Foods. And again, in the case of Sapphire and Syrma, we were very conscious about valuation protection, given all this talk about potential recession in the US and that in turn impacting the rest of the world.

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The CFO Role in Digital Transformation: Leader of the Pack

Embark With Us

There's nothing wrong with being old school. Flannel shirts and a worn pair of Chucks are timeless. Same with Zeppelin on vinyl, Paul Newman, and a cold PBR. But there's a distinction between old school and stubborn. Hard-headed. Narrow-minded. And CFOs just don't have the latitude to test those boundaries anymore. That is, assuming they want to avoid extinction for their companies.

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The Hidden Science Behind Why Finance Teams Resist Change—And How to Fix It

Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP

The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.

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India services growth eases in January after hitting 6-mth high in December, PMI data shows

CFO News

The S&P Global India services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 57.2 in January from 58.5 in December, missing expectations in a Reuters poll for 58.1 but above the 50-mark separating growth from contraction for an 18th straight month. She also noted that after re-accelerating in December, input cost inflation in the service sector retreated to a two-year low in January, aiding a slower and only moderate upturn in selling prices.

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Venture Capital Sentiment Tracker – December 2022

Fox Corporate Finance

December 2022: Biotechnology Medical Technology Health Technology Funding Volume (€m) 0 Trend Funding Volume (€m) 0 Trend Funding Volume (€m) 0 Trend Biotechnology Funding Volume (€m) 0 Trend Medical Technology Funding Volume (€m) 0 Trend. Read more The post Venture Capital Sentiment Tracker – December 2022 appeared first on FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH.

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Skills, Millet, Green — Hidden gems in FM’s Budget

CFO News

The finance minister has come up with many provisions and initiatives in the Budget but I would like to highlight three major points which are a little unusual and will help the country in the long term. They are skills, green and millet.

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50% Risk-free Annual Returns

Barry Ritholtz

There is a fascinating long-form article in the Washington Post about the murder of an investigative reporter who was looking into a Ponzi scheme in Las Vegas last year. 1 It’s a riveting and terrible story, and the Post focused on the highlights: Lost monies, Mormons, FBI investigations, guns, and murder. I read this as I was putting together my deck on how not to get ripped off by investment fraud , This led me to focus on a slightly different aspect of this grim tale: “Authorities had l

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Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle

Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP

Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.