Wed.Mar 15, 2023

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More Realistic Retirement Income Projections Require Dynamic Adjustments

CFA Institute

How can we incorporate dynamic spending into retirement income projections?

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SEC fines IT firm DXC $8M for ‘misleading’ disclosures

CFO Dive

DXC lacked adequate controls for the review, approval and classification of costs, according to the SEC.

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10 Wednesday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Programming note: Morning Reads will be in Dallas Thursday and Friday — we will be back on the weekend… My mid-week morning train reads: • Dissecting Goldman’s gory $2.25bn SVB equity issue Well that escalated quickly. ( Financial Times ) • Whose Fault is it Anyway : It has been 872 days since a bank failed in the United States. This was the longest streak on record.

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FASB kicks off comment period on income-tax updates

CFO Dive

While previous FASB efforts to update accounting standards for taxes have fizzled, Chair Richard Jones has said tweaks to the project’s scope have made it achievable.

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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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The good news

The Reformed Broker

Apparently it’s news to the whole world this morning that Credit Suisse is some sort of undead Swiss zombie bank worth more dissected and sold off in chunks than alive. Who knew? Oh wait – everyone knew, for a long time now. Open secret. Single digit stock price. Come on. I meet financial advisors at industry events and cocktail parties – I wince when they say they work at Credit Suisse.

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Cyber Threats To Client Wealth And Well-Being: Why And How Wealth Managers Will Soon Play A Key Role In Managing These Risks

Nerd's Eye View

Risk management is a key part of many financial advisors’ value propositions. For instance, ensuring clients maintain the proper insurance coverage based on their needs is an important part of the financial planning process. At the same time, clients face another class of risks that advisors often do not consider: cyber. In this article, guest authors Mark Hurley, Carmin Cicalese, Bryce Washum, and Douglas Garbutt discuss how financial advisory clients face a range of cyber risks, includin

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NBFC body writes to FinMin on new provisions of Income Tax Act

CFO News

FIDC has primarily highlighted two demands to the Finance Minister. Firstly, they seek removal of exemption from TDS on payment of interest on listed debentures to a resident and requested to restore status quo. Secondly, to amend Section 194LD and Section 194LC of the Income Tax Act seeking removal of the ambiguity.

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Discussing Bank Contagion with Pete Dominick

Barry Ritholtz

I spent some time with my buddy Pete Dominick on Monday talking about all of the things we don’t know about SVB. As always, its a fun conversation — I pop in at the 19 minute mark. The post Discussing Bank Contagion with Pete Dominick appeared first on The Big Picture.

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Credit Suisse erupts into full-blown crisis as rivals back away

CFO News

At least one bank, BNP Paribas SA, went a step further and informed clients it will no longer accept requests to take over their derivatives contracts when Credit Suisse is the counterparty, according to people familiar with the matter. This adds to the steps that many banks in the US had been taking over the course of months to slowly reduce their exposure to the lender.

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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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Technology for database processing

Spreadym

Corporate data processing refers to the use of technology to collect, store, manipulate, and analyze large amounts of business data in a corporate setting. Here are some of the key techniques used in corporate data processing: Data Collection: The first step in corporate data processing is the collection of data from various sources such as internal databases in Excel spreadsheets, sites with such data as exchange rates, interest rates and so on, and third-party business software.

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A four-member GST appellate tribunal likely in each state to streamline dispute resolution

CFO News

A four-member appellate tribunal is likely to be set up in each state in order to streamline and expedite the dispute resolution process with regard to Goods and Services Tax (GST), reported PTI citing official. Each state appellate tribunal would have two technical members (one officer each from the centre and states) and two judicial members.

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Welcome Mark Cross

Focus CFO

We are pleased to announce that Mark Cross has joined the FocusCFO team as an Area President, bringing our Fractional CFO services to businesses in Central Virginia and Virginia Beach. Mark supports and guides corporate boards, senior leaders, and leadership teams to transform their businesses, drive significant change, and accelerate positive results.

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Talent attraction and retention: Businesses need to embed sustainability 

Future CFO

When it comes to talent attraction and retention, organisations’ commitment to sustainability and positive societal change becomes key, said Alistair Cox, CEO of Hays recently. As awareness of climate change and the need for action increases, more and more employees want to work for businesses with meaningful sustainability goals, Cox noted. The CEO outlines steps for business leaders to embed sustainability into their organisations.

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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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India to take lead in building digital infra, say Nokia and Ericsson chiefs

CFO News

Nokia Corporation president and chief executive, Pekka Lundmark said that India is now the second largest market for the global telecom equipment maker and that it is now exporting 5G base stations from the country.

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3 aspirations to achieve transformational sales growth

Jedox Finance

Sales performance management continues to gain traction across organizations of all shapes and sizes all over the world. As they become larger, more complex, more diverse, and increasingly global, sales organizations must aspire to scalability, predictability, and transparency to achieve transformational sales growth amid strengthening economic headwinds. 1 Sales performance management provides a consistent, global, and automated structure with a common view of data on a shared platform – creati

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EY, KPMG back-offices issue advisories on return to work, indicating hybrid model

CFO News

EY Global Delivery Services (EY GDS) and KPMG Global Services (KGS) employ around 50,000 people between them in India, providing services to the member firms of their parents, EY and KPMG, globally.

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Crypto under PMLA ambit to act as fraud deterrent, step towards regularisation: Experts

CFO News

The Finance Ministry, last week, notified to bring all virtual digital assets, including cryptocurrencies under the PMLA ambit. Crypto company heads believe that the decision to bring cryptocurrency and VDAs under PMLA is a good, positive and long-overdue step towards regulating and recognising the sector.

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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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Government may ease data submission norms in PLI plan for auto companies

CFO News

Automakers will be able to avail the benefits by submitting sourcing and pricing details of all the parts used in the vehicles from their tier-1 or direct suppliers, instead of providing information up to tier-3 suppliers or subcontractors as the government planned initially, people aware of the matter said.

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SBI files insolvency plea against simplex

CFO News

Bankers are not too enthusiastic about the recovery chances from the account. "EPC companies such as these typically have a lot of pending receivables from the government, which invariably have some counterclaims. So recoveries are very difficult as these companies have very little assets that can be monetised," said a second person aware of the company's position.

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New foreign trade policy may be released by end of this month: Commerce Secretary

CFO News

Commerce Secretary Sunil Barthwal said that the ministry has looked at various aspects of that FTP as the policy is basically the collection of various incentive schemes.

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IT hardware companies flag PLI’s investment amid unused slack capacities

CFO News

The firms reasoned that most manufacturers have slack capacities that first need to be used up before committing to expansion at a time when global PC and tablet sales have been steadily declining.

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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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Three companies in fray for Sterlite JV's 2 transmission projects

CFO News

Sterlite has received bids from three entities - IndiGrid, Torrent Power and Edelweiss Infra Fund - and these bidders are currently engaged in due diligence of the assets.

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Credit Suisse to borrow up to $54 billion from Swiss National Bank

CFO News

The move came after Swiss regulators pledged a liquidity lifeline to Credit Suisse in an unprecedented move by a central bank after the flagship Swiss lender's shares fell by as much as 30% on Wednesday. Credit Suisse would be the first major global bank to be given such a lifeline since the 2008 financial crisis - though central banks have extended liquidity more generally to banks during times of market stress including the coronavirus pandemic.

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Hero Electric expects to double its two-wheeler sales in FY24

CFO News

"There were constraints in the availability of semiconductors, which have now eased. Momentum in the market is good. We will close this fiscal with sales of about 100,000 units and aim to grow by 1.7-2.2 times in the next financial year," Munjal, who is the managing director (MD) at Hero Electric, told ET.

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BFSI companies scale up campus hiring amid global gloom

CFO News

Banking, financial services and insurance companies including HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, JP Morgan, NatWest Group, DE Shaw India, Ambit, and Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance, are significantly ramping up campus hiring across engineering and regular graduate colleges, business schools, and even CA and law institutes.

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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.