CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

The tendency towards underconfidence can also lead us to needlessly (and endlessly) search for ways to gain influence when what we really need is to get better at recognizing the influence we already have — but may not be wielding effectively. In this piece, the author offers three suggestions, not for gaining influence, but for becoming more mindful of the influence you have already but don’t always see, so you can begin to use your latent influence more wisely.

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Navigator SAP

JANUARY 7, 2023

Enterprise Resource Planning software, or ERP, is a critical tool for manufacturing and distribution firms that want to obtain complete visibility into core business processes. Manufacturing involves a lot of processes, and ERP software such as SAP Business ByDesign helps in coordination and management of the many moving parts that contribute to a successful manufacturing business.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

For many seasoned financial advisors, the road toward building a career and a business can be challenging and rewarding. And even though most advisors would agree that the road to success involves many years of hard work and sacrifice, each advisor’s path to ultimate success can consist of massively different experiences. In our 102nd episode of Kitces & Carl, Michael Kitces and client communication expert Carl Richards discuss the challenges they have each faced in their decades-long caree

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2023

This week, we speak with the legendary John Mack, former chief executive officer and chairman of the board at Morgan Stanley. He recently published a memoir of his life and 34-year tenure at Morgan Stanley, “ Up Close and All In: Life Lessons from a Wall Street Warrior.”. We discuss how he ended up on Wall Street because he needed a job when an injury ended his college football career and scholarship.

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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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CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each spring, and in this one, I will start on the first of a series of posts that I make at the start of each year, where I look at data, both macro and company-level. In this post, I will provide a motivation, if you need one, for why I create and share the data updates, followed up by a description of my data sample, which includes publicly traded companies listed and traded across the world, as well a

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

To kick off the New Year, 60 minutes pulled out a man from yesteryears: Paul Ehrlich. If you do not know who Ehrlich is, you are probably a young person. If you are above a certain age, you have heard of him, seen him on television, heard him on the radio or heard his ideas second-hand from someone. This biologist from Stanford University was a media fixture in the 1960s and 1970s for his view (expressed in the best-seller The Population BombI ) that overpopulation would lead to resource depleti

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Cube Software

JANUARY 7, 2023

Workforce management (WFM) involves the strategic planning , scheduling, and monitoring employee tasks and activities.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

Shoppers line up outside a Costco to buy supplies after the Hawaii Department of Health on Wednesday advised residents they should stock up on a 14-day supply of food, water and other necessities for the potential risks of novel coronavirus in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. February 28, 2020. Courtesy of Duane Tanouye via REUTERS. Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.

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Cube Software

JANUARY 7, 2023

So… it’s finally happened. You’ve decided to embrace your surgical attention to detail and spreadsheet prowess.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2023

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Tolima Los Brasiles Peaberry coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How Not to Play the Game : Magic beans, Bahamian penthouses, old-fashioned fraud and other important SBF-inspired insights. A postscript to Bloomberg Businessweek’s The Crypto Story. ( Businessweek ). • 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2022 : The world didn’t fall apart this year.

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Cube Software

JANUARY 7, 2023

We hate to admit this, but things don't always go to plan.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

Today is Epiphany, for those Christians who aren’t celebrating Christmas today, and thus the last of the Twelve Days of Christmas. Time to take your decorations down if you haven’t already. We have Christmas all the time here, leaving the festooned tree up all year but having lights on only from sometime in December till January 7. My mother decided to be done with the bother of putting the tree up and taking it down.

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Cube Software

JANUARY 7, 2023

Double-checking the books is second nature for any accountant. (And for you triple-checkers and quadruple-checkers: we see you.). But what happens when you find discrepancies between accounts? Or an error in a financial statement? That's where account reconciliation comes in. And we'll tell you all about it in this guide. What it is. When you need to do it.

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