Mon.Dec 26, 2022

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Validating Product-Market Fit in the Real World

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To test new products, most companies rely on creating “minimum viable products” and testing customer feedback, or conducting focus groups or marketing surveys. There’s another method companies should try: “heat-testing,” or testing consumer reaction to online advertisements. Heat-testing is revolutionary because it takes place in the real world. Unlike focus groups or surveys, which rely on what consumers say, people who click or like an ad are demonstrating actual behavior and interest, which c

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Covid or not, Sula’s Group CFO is taking home wine consumption bet into 2023

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Trends like an increase in in-home consumption, Covid-19-induced premiumisation, and the power of brand recall for ordering home delivery are likely to continue, says Bittu Varghese.

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59 Ways to Make $100 a Day Fast (Updated for 2023)

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Everyone could use a little extra cash every now and then. While your side hustle won’t make you rich, you can use the money to cover bills, pay for unexpected expenses, or even splurge on something you’ve wanted. The Best Ways to Make $100 In a Day. It can be tough to come up with money-making ideas that work for you. To help you get started, I’ve compiled an exhaustive yet actionable list of 59 ways to make $100 per day.

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India to become $10-trillion economy by 2035: CEBR

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​​However, over the next five years, the annual rate of India's GDP growth is expected to average 6.4%, after which it is expected to grow at average 6.5% in the subsequent nine years.

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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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Stanford Fails to Master Clear Thinking

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Stanford University’s information technology community produced, and then hid , a document entitled “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.” Stanford didn’t adopt the EOHLI document. The fact that Stanford has not directly rejected this document and the ideas expressed within it, however, strongly suggests that this widely ridiculed document aligns with some deep-seated views pervading the campus.

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CarMax, Micron, Under Armour and others

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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: CarMax (KMX) – The auto retailer’s stock slumped 12.7% in the premarket after its quarterly profit and revenue fell well short of estimates. CarMax earned 24 cents per share, compared with a consensus estimate of 70 cents, and its comparable used-vehicle sales were down 22.4% versus FactSet’s consensus forecast of a 16.9% slide.

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2022 Highlights — The Top 22 Nerd’s Eye View Blog Posts You Might Have Missed

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As 2022 comes to a close, I am once again so thankful to all of you, the ever-growing number of readers who continue to regularly visit this Nerd’s Eye View Blog (and share the content with your friends and colleagues, which we greatly appreciate!). This year has been challenging for many financial advisors as they help their clients (and their own firms!

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Kissinger Sees a Global Leadership Vacuum

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Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York. . He is also a member of Aspen Institute Italy and board member of Aspenia. Before joining Hudson, Mr.

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India self-reliant in textiles, food products, iron & steel

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In a move to measure India's self-reliance, industry body CII and accountancy firm PwC have developed an 'AatmaNirbhar Index', which is expressed as the ratio of the country's total exports and its imports.

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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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Hits Like ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Buoyed 2022 Movie Box Office, to a Point

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The combined superpowers of the Batman, Doctor Strange, the Minions, Maverick and Na’vi warriors couldn’t save Hollywood from a lackluster 2022 box office. Wide-release films, meaning those shown in more than 2,000 theaters for multiple weeks, earned $7.23 billion in North America this year through Christmas, according to box office tracker Comscore.

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Nestlé, Panasonic, Dabur & Wipro Consumer Care among cos planning to focus more on D2C marketing

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Despite low sales on the individual platforms, executives said they use their microsites as launch platforms, to collect consumer data, build loyalty and then roll out in other larger channels for volumes, or direct consumers to scale platforms like Amazon or Flipkart.

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2022 Best-Of Highlights From The Nerd’s Eye View Blog

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Executive Summary. As 2022 comes to a close, I am once again so thankful to all of you, the ever-growing number of readers who continue to regularly visit this Nerd’s Eye View Blog (and share the content with your friends and colleagues, which we greatly appreciate!). This year has been challenging for many financial advisors as they help their clients (and their own firms!

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No proposal before govt to lower threshold for generating e-invoice

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"There is no proposal before the Government, at present, to reduce this threshold limit to Rs 5 crore with effect from 01.01.2023, as no such recommendation has been made by GST Council as yet," the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) tweeted.

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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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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/26/2022 | naked capitalism

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day. Snow Partridge, West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh, India. * * *. Readers, I hope your Christmas Eve and Day were everything you expected, and what you expected was good (and what you hoped for). The week between Christmas and New Year’s tends to be slow, and so my Water Cooler coverage this week will be a little erratic, perhaps confined to a single topic.

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India's ambitious 2070 zero emission target needs $10 trillion investment

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At the UN Climate Summit COP 26 in Glasgow, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that India would achieve the net zero emission target by 2070, a rather ambitious deadline, which according to experts would require no additional greenhouse gases emission into the atmosphere.

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'Rising manufacturing share may help India weather slowing global growth'

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The Tata group has launched new initiatives to participate in global supply chains, and as part of the focus on sustainability, has devised a group-wide project - "Aalingana" (Embrace). "Our approach encompasses three interconnected pillars: reducing emissions to reach net zero by 2045; pioneering circular economies through sharing, reusing and recycling; and preserving and restoring nature and biodiversity," he said.

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Loan Fraud Case: CBI arrests Videocon CEO Venugopal Dhoot

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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday arrested Videocon CEO Venugopal Dhoot in the alleged ICICI Bank-Videocon money laundering case. The CEO was arrested from Mumbai. Earlier, the agency had arrested the former managing director and chief executive officer of ICICI Bank Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar in connection with the case.

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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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Missed inflation target, digital currency pilot mark RBI's 2022 map; growth vector to dominate ahead

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A bulk of the blame for persistent inflation was placed on the deteriorating global situation following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February, which led to a huge spike in the commodity prices, especially crude which India imports.

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Finance Minister Sitharaman admitted to AIIMS

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The Finance Minister has been admitted in a private ward of the hospital.

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PLI scheme for textiles attracts Rs 1,536 cr in investments: Govt

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The ministry said that domestic cotton cultivation has increased by 5 per cent to 125.02 lakh hectares as against 119.10 lakh hectares during last year, and a brand named 'Kasturi Cotton India' for Indian cotton has been launched to encourage mechanized harvesting of cotton, improving its quality of cotton and reduce labour cost.

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Tata Power avails of Rs 450 crore sustainable trade finance from Japan's MUFG

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"It is the first sustainable trade finance facility offered by MUFG in India and TPKL will utilise the funds towards generating renewable energy capacity," said Tata Power in a statement, adding that the collaboration will open up further opportunities to raise green financing as Tata Power continues to increase its clean energy portfolio and contribute towards India's net zero targets.

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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.