Thu.Dec 08, 2022

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US could skirt recession, former Fed economist says

CFO Dive

Inflation and economic uncertainty top business leaders’ worries, but easing supply chain pressures and a strong labor market could help the U.S. avoid a recession.

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Join me Friday on the annual YCharts year-end webinar

The Reformed Broker

Each Christmas season I do a webinar with my friends at YCharts where we take a look back at the most important charts of the year and discuss which of these trends will remain important going forward. It’s always a lot of fun and registration is free. This takes place tomorrow (Friday) December 9th at 12 noon ET (11am CT). This is a presentation for wealth management and asset management professionals, you can reg.

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Tyson Foods backs CFO after reviewing arrest

CFO Dive

The meat processing giant’s pick of John R. Tyson — the great grandson of the company’s founder — has drawn skepticism from some board governance experts.

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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/8/2022 | naked capitalism

CFO News Room

Bird Song of the Day. Cretzschmar’s Bunting, Gaziantep, Türkiye. Cretzschmar with a “C.” These guys have no logic at all. * * *. * * *. Contact information for plants : Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you are allergic to PayPal and (b) to find out how to send me images of plants.

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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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PCAOB warns of uptick in auditing flaws

CFO Dive

To avert flaws in reports, CFOs should keep auditors apprised of any big changes or new business risks and invest in internal controls.

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Behind the snark, counsel for laid-off Twitter staff promises Musk a rough ride

CFO Dive

A clause saying ex-employees aren’t third-party beneficiaries of the merger agreement won’t hold up if challenged in court, attorney Akiva Cohen says.

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What to Do When a Direct Report Is Bullying You

CFO News Room

The stereotypical workplace bully is the aggressive boss demeaning a quiet team member. But bullying is ultimately about power, and positional authority is only one power source. According to the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI), 14 % of all workplace bullying in the U.S. is upward, or bullying of managers by subordinates. Bullied supervisors have been shown to suffer the same emotional and experiential consequences as other targets: depression, anxiety, loss of confidence, poor health, and of

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Merry and Bright: A look at 2022 holiday merchandising

CFO Dive

’Tis the season to evoke cheer while attempting to drive up sales.

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Every Day Is Tax Day: Five Tax Strategies for HNW Clients

CFA Institute

Our clients' taxes and the tax-savings strategies we can devise for them should be on our minds year-round.

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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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What Doesn’t Matter

Barry Ritholtz

One of the reasons people in the investment community respect Howard Marks so much is he says what he believes and lets the chips fall where they may. His observations are always insightful, and over the years have becomeopular, but what really set him apart were his big contrarian observations, such as the Amazon dot Bomb in 1999. I did not get to his recent What Really Matters?

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More Stores Do Double Duty as Distribution Centers for Online Orders

CFO News Room

More retailers are packing up goods in stores for delivering e-commerce orders as they look to speed up shipments, streamline inventory and make more use of their bricks-and-mortar sites. . Beauty goods retailer. Ulta Beauty Inc., department store chain. Macy’s Inc. and apparel seller. Tilly’s Inc. are among those expanding their store fulfillment, joining merchants such as.

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10 Thursday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My morning train WFH reads: • The Cult of the Retail Trader Has Fizzled : The GameStop and AMC manias are long gone, with individual investor returns falling 40% this year and digital currency prices tumbling. ( Businessweek ). • FTX’s Bahamas Headquarters Was the First Clue : Bankman-Fried is just the latest in a long string of notorious characters who moved their business to the island nation, from the pirate Blackbeard to organized crime figures and assorted “financial wizards.” ( Bloomberg )

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PodChat for FutureCFO: Finance as a strategic enabler through analytics

Future CFO

Digital transformation has elevated the role of the finance function from financial steward to enabled. The extended COVID-19 pandemic has upped the ante in the race to finance agility. An EY study reveals that up to 70% of financial controllers and CFOs in Singapore found an increase in demand for financial analysis and forecasts as stakeholders are increasingly interested in including non-financial data for corporate reporting.

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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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Arjuna and Indian inflation

CFO News

A small rate hike in February may be accompanied by a neutral stance before the central bank settles into a big pause.

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199: Lili Grobler

CFO Talks

1X. Leading strategy at Stiles. Welcome to the CFO Club Africa podcast, where we interview leading CFOs from Africa and beyond. CFO Club Africa is a division of the Chartered Institute of Business Accountants, the professional body for business accountants, financial managers and chief financial officers. Go to www.cfoclub.co.za and join our community of accounting and finance executives.

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84% business leaders across Indian Inc optimistic about growth in 2023: Benori Knowledge survey

CFO News

Leaders from India Inc. say that despite the impending global recession, they intend to scale their digital transformation budgets in the upcoming year, with 42% of leaders highlighting integration of emerging technologies as one of the major themes for 2023.

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Vena reviews: How does Vena Solutions compare to the alternatives?

Cube Software

This is our full, complete, and honest review of the Vena Solutions platform, typically just called “Vena,” sometimes also known as Vena Complete Planning.

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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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PTC auditors issue disclaimer opinion on H1 FY23 results as 4 IDs quit citing governance concerns

CFO News

The auditors pointed to the concerns raised by the four independent directors who quit the board behind the reason for issuing a disclaimer opinion.

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Pay raise in the Philippines to hit pre-pandemic levels in 2023

Future CFO

Pay raise in the Philippines next year is expected to be similar to that in 2019, said Mercer recently. Employees in the Philippines can look forward to a median 5.5% increase in their salaries next year, up from 5.3% this year, according to Mercer’s annual Total Remuneration Survey (TRS) 2022 based on a survey of 447 organisations across 11 industries in the country between April and June this year.

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India unveils $30 billion plan to upgrade grid for clean power

CFO News

The project will connect solar plants in the sun-drenched deserts of Rajasthan and Gujarat and wind farms in Tamil Nadu to the national network, power ministry said in a statement. It will help boost India’s inter-regional transmission capacity from 112 gigawatts to 150 gigawatts by the end of the decade.

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Three areas of lifelong learning CFOs should be working on

CFO Talks

Successful CFOs are always learning something new. Our network of CFOs share insights on the relevant areas where CFOs should consider upgrading their skills. . CFOs are always learning on the job. “It is important that we are constantly developing as CFOs because the world is ever-changing, and our role is ever-changing,” Oyinda Akanbi , CFO at Synlab Nigeria, told CFOTalks. .

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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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ABG Shipyard's former chairman Rishi Agarwal granted bail

CFO News

Agarwal was arrested by the CBI for his alleged involvement in an alleged ₹22,842-crore bank fraud case.

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Best Practices when Accounting for Grants

The Charity CFO

Grants are the lifeblood of nonprofits, giving them the much-needed cash injection to market the organization, fund a project, or get an initiative off the ground. Having a full grant pipeline increases your nonprofit’s chances of success and improves your visibility and credibility. But in order to get the most out of these grants, you need to understand how to properly manage and account for them.

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Inflationary pressure on FMCGs set to ease, says ITC Chairman Sanjiv Puri

CFO News

There is a "phenomenal" amount of inflation now, hence FMCG volume growth in rural areas is "muted" and the bulk of the growth is inflation led, ITC Chairman & Managing Director Sanjiv Puri said on Thursday at an event organised by industry body CII. "As far as consumption is concerned, the main stress point is inflation induced because prices of lots of products have gone up at a percentage probably in the prior period that would have taken five years to go up," he s

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Record-breaking nominations for Castle at Dealmakers Awards

Castle Corporate Finance

Castle has been shortlisted for seven accolades at the Insider South East Dealmakers Awards 2023 – the company’s record-breaking best performance to date. The highly regarded event, now in its seventeenth year, honours the region’s M&A professionals. The firm has been shortlisted in the Corporate Finance Advisory Team of the Year; two Deals of the Year (£10m+); and Deal of the Year (sub £10m) categories; along with individual nominations going to: Stuart Stepney (Dealmaker of the Year); Vict

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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.