Thu.Sep 05, 2024

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The Tariff Wars Return

Global Finance

After a half-century in which it embraced a doctrine of free trade, the industrialized West seems to be moving in the opposite direction: rolling out an expanding list of new tariffs on imports and placing increased reliance on industrial policy to promote domestic industries. In the US, with both parties in this November’s presidential election supporting tariffs—albeit for different reasons—companies may face more onerous import duties in the coming months.

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Tax compliance costs surge 32% since 2017: Tax Foundation

CFO Dive

Efforts to simplify the federal tax code have failed to reverse decades of regulatory and legislative changes that have made it more complex.

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The Power of Expectations: Nvidia's Earnings and the Market Reaction!

Musings on Markets

Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled for after the market closed. That call, at first sight, contained exceptionally good news, with revenues and earnings coming in at stratospheric levels, and above expectations, but the stock fell in the aftermath, down 8% in Thursday’s trading. That drop of more than $200 billion in market capitalization in response to what looked like good news, at least on the surface, puzzled market observers,

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Honeywell taps insider for CFO seat

CFO Dive

The transition comes as Charlotte, North Carolina-based Honeywell’s CEO is laser-focused on accelerating growth.

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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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How Machine Learning Is Transforming Portfolio Optimization

CFA Institute

Jordan Doyle holds a bachelor of business administration degree with a major in finance from James Madison University and a master of science degree in finance from George Mason University. He is currently a Research Affiliate to the Research and Policy Center at CFA Institute. His research has mainly focused on determining the drivers of active management in US and European markets and developing a framework to better identify and define new index-based investment strategies.

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Dangers and Opportunities Posed by the AI Skills Gap in Investment Management

CFA Institute

AI is more than just another technology. It is a transformative force with the potential to redefine investment management. The industry's most significant barrier to harnessing this power is the widening AI skills gap.

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Klarna Considers Share Sale Ahead Of Listing In US

Global Finance

Klarna Group, Europe’s leading payment solutions disrupter, is exploring a secondary share sale ahead of its 2025 initial public offering in the US. Backed by Sequoia Capital and Softbank, the 19-year-old company is currently in talks with investors to assess the level of interest; Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan are reportedly advising.

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Webinar: SAP Universal RevRec with SAP Development and Bramasol

Bramasol

The latest innovation in revenue accounting is here – SAP Universal Revenue Recognition (RevRec) – and it's changing the game for businesses looking to streamline their financial processes. This powerful, cloud-based solution provides an adaptable and scalable platform, perfect for meeting your evolving revenue recognition needs. Join our upcoming webinar featuring SAP's Product Team from Walldorf and the experts at Bramasol as they unveil the cutting-edge capabilities of SAP Universal RevRec.

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Designing Effective Financial Information Systems: A Guide for South African CFOs 

CFO Talks

Designing Effective Financial Information Systems: A Guide for South African CFOs In the ever-changing financial landscape, the strength of your financial information system (FIS) plays an important role in determining your organisation’s success. As a CFO in South Africa, you are not only tasked with managing financial performance but also ensuring that your systems are sturdy, compliant, and aligned with both current needs and future growth.

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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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Leveraging ESG initiatives for business value

Future CFO

Finance leaders are wedged into a position of not only overseeing the implementation of financial controls and risk management strategies to safeguard their organisations throughout the transformation journey, but also in spearheading the company to find and implement initiatives to drive value. Chief financial officers indeed play a pivotal role in the company’s digital transformation as they are in charge of aligning financial goals with technological advancements, but as the Finance function

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3 Things You Don’t Know About Josh

Barry Ritholtz

I have known Josh for nearly 15 years. Despite his writing in public that entire time, hosting two weekly shows on our YouTube channel , and showing up on CNBC three times a week, you don’t know him. Public persona aside, he is surprisingly private. I know him as well as anyone besides Sprinkles and maybe Batnick. I am going to share three things about Josh that you don’t know.

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Kitces & Carl Ep 146: Re-Educating Clients (Scalably) After They “Read Something On The Internet”

Nerd's Eye View

A cornerstone service that many financial advisors provide is education. While strategic advice is crucial, advisors also face the challenge of presenting the strategies to clients in context, explaining different financial planning concepts, and showing clients how to implement these strategies (as well as pointing out any long-term consequences). While curious, proactive clients who are ready to learn may be the ideal, this can become complicated when clients bring 'good' advice they've heard

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Building brighter futures: How BMO supports youth financial literacy and skills development across the U.S.

Bank of the West

BMO’s recent donations to youth-focused organizations in the U.S. are helping support skills development and financial literacy programs, creating a better future for thousands of young adults across our U.S.… Read more The post Building brighter futures: How BMO supports youth financial literacy and skills development across the U.S. appeared first on About BMO.

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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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Will AI replace your finance team in 2024?

Cube Software

Will AI replace humans in finance? AI won't replace entire finance jobs like financial analysts or accountants, but it will take over specific tasks. For instance, AI can handle data entry, transaction processing, predictive analytics, and fraud detection.

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The Innovators 2024—Best Financial Innovation Labs

Global Finance

Global Finance ’s sixth annual list of the world’s best innovation labs highlights the power of collaboration. In Brazil, the Pix payment system lets people, corporations, and governments transfer and accept funds instantly, 24 hours a day—even when banks are closed. Released in late 2020 by the Banco Central Do Brasil, Pix has been lauded for its convenience and the financial services it provides to Brazil’s significant unbanked and underbanked populations.

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11 best AI tools for Google Sheets

Cube Software

Can you use AI tools for Google Sheets? You can use AI tools to automate manual repetitive tasks in Google Sheets. For financial planning and analysis teams, this means automating tasks like data collection and cleaning, conditional formatting, formula generation, calculations, and routine report generation.

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The Mentoring Round | Don McGuire, CFO ADP

CFO Thought Leader

Inside The Mentoring Round , CFO Don McGuire explains how increasingly ADP’s finance professionals are discovering career opportunities outside traditional finance roles, bringing diverse skills back into finance. McGuire’ explains how his team is divided into two groups: BU CFOs, who work closely with business units (BUs) and focus on growth and business understanding, and corporate functions like treasury and investor relations, which support broader finance initiatives.

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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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Bank Offers Cash For ESG Goals

Global Finance

Standard Chartered has launched a new ESG-Linked Cash Account for corporate banking clients that rewards them for meeting targets tied to environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities. “Through continued engagement, we know that many sustainability-focused clients are seeking to balance environmental and social impact alongside financial returns.

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No friction between Centre and states over GST, says FM Sitharaman

CFO News

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has denied any friction between the Centre and states over GST, emphasizing the importance of respecting the federal structure. She highlighted that simplifying taxpayer compliance takes precedence over revenue generation in budget meetings. The average GST rate has decreased to 12.2% as of 2023, below the suggested revenue neutral rate.

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India: Bharti Acquiring Stake In British Telecom

Global Finance

Why would a successful and dominant telecom group, with a strong footprint in fast-growing Asian and African markets, want to venture into a mature, low-growth market like the UK? That’s the question analysts were asking after Bharti Enterprises, the company that controls Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecommunications company, announced a binding agreement to acquire a 24.5% stake in British Telecom, the UK’s largest telecom services operator, for £3.2 billion, or $4 billion.

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Piyush Goyal backs border adjustment tax for steel

CFO News

In the past, India has maintained that the carbon border adjustment tax, proposed by the European Union and the UK, is not compliant with global trade rules.

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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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Ola Electric’s Shares Surge

Global Finance

A $734 million initial public offering by Ola Electric Mobility Limited, an Indian electric two-wheeler (E2W) maker, surpassed expectations to emerge as the Mumbai market’s most successful-ever debut on August 9. Ola is a pure electrical vehicle (EV) brand with a leadership position in scooters and motorcycles, claiming a 49% market share in the E2W space in India.

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Esop culture making India Inc top executives richer

CFO News

Data of Esop issuances-put together by Esop Direct-by 12 sector frontliners in the Nifty 50 showed that about 90 million options were issued over FY23 and FY24. Companies using this talent-rewarding tool include L&T, Infosys, ICICI Bank, JSW Steel, Bharti Airtel, ITC, UltraTech Cement, Bajaj Auto, Reliance Industries, UPL, Asian Paints, and Dr Reddy's Laboratories.

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Egypt Gains Breathing Room

Global Finance

After a bailout pulls Egypt back from the brink, new foreign investment and robust local banks sector suggest a return to growth. Last fall, as conflict erupted in Gaza, Egypt’s economy, already weakened by the Russia-Ukraine war and the Covid-19 pandemic, teetered on the brink of collapse. By early 2024, the Arab world’s largest country faced the risks of regional conflict on its Sinai border and default on its foreign debt, prompting urgent recovery measures.

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Indian aviation industry forecasts lower losses for INR 20 - 30 billion in FY 25: ICRA

CFO News

The aviation sector has demonstrated strong pricing discipline, reflected in the increased spread between revenue per available seat kilometer (RASK) and cost per available seat kilometer (CASK). This improved pricing power has led ICRA to maintain a stable outlook for the industry, with continued growth in both domestic and international passenger volumes and a relatively stable cost environment.

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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.