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Value Creation

The Reformed Broker

All of the value creation for investors comes from the actions they take in falling markets, not rising ones. If you’re not yet in retirement and not finished putting money into your retirement accounts, every 5% the market falls is an increased opportunity for you to buy things that will be worth much more in the future when you eventually sell them.

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Mobile workforce guidelines for contractors

CFO Dive

What are the best methods for compliance and cost reduction of a mobile workforce?

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Improve Business Intelligence Performance

Navigator SAP

Businesses use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, such as SAP ERP for small business entities, to analyze, gather and share data insights between integral teams. For example, an ERP system can collate metrics from manufacturing, sales, and accounting departments into one database, connecting the dots to help managers identify efficiencies, and optimize processes.

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5 steps to reinforce the reputation of your tax function

CFO Dive

How tax practitioners can restore and reinforce the often overlooked tax department.

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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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10 Monday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • What is the Fed Doing? Don’t fight the Fed used to be a positive slogan. That’s not the case anymore. If anything, it feels like the Fed wants to fight us, all of us, including the stock market and the economy. The Fed is actively trying to crash the stock market, break the housing market and push the economy into a recession.

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PodChats for FutureCFO: The CFO’s role in M&A and other initiatives

Future CFO

According to S&P Global , APAC M&A activity in Q1 2022 retreated from 2021’s highs, with deal value for the quarter ending at $73.8B, a decline of 44% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) or 18% year-on-year (YoY). In Q1 2022, Australia (US$15 billion) led the region by transaction value, followed by China (US$12.5 bn) and Hong Kong (US$11.4 bn). The financial services sector topped M&A activities in Q1 2022 with 14.6 billion followed by real estate (US$13.4 bn) and communications (US$9.2 bn).

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How the Digital Solutions Economy is Impacting the Transportation Sector

Bramasol

This new episode in our ongoing series on the Digital Solutions Economy (DSE) provides an overview of how DSE is impacting the transportation industry. Previous episodes in this series include DSE in the Medical Device industry , DSE in Utilities industry , and DSE in the Energy Sector. Overview. In some ways, the transportation sector has always included services based on subscriptions and usage.

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Going Beyond Budgeting With a Better Planning Solution

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This year is coming to a close, and for many of us, that means it’s budgeting season. If you dread this time of year and the pressures of budget changes and new demands, you are not alone. Most companies — about 90% of businesses with 50 to 200 employees — still use Excel for their budgeting and planning, although they continue to report major pitfalls with time-consuming processes and reporting delays.

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#220 – The Strategic Treasurer Series: Mastering the Hybrid Role (Part 4)

Strategic Treasurer

Episode 220. The Strategic Treasurer Series: Mastering the Hybrid Role (Part 4). This episode is Part 4 of our Strategic Treasurer Series on treasury roles. Although we are exploring different specific roles in treasury, it is often required for treasurers to wear many hats and fit into a hybrid role. Listen in as Craig Jeffery and Paul Galloway discuss the mindset needed for maintaining a hybrid role.

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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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Finance functions aim for a touchless close

Future CFO

A touchless close is what finance functions want, Gartner said recently. According to survey of 155 finance executives by the advisory firm in February 2022, 55% of respondents aimed for a touchless financial close by 2025. In addition, at least half of the respondents identified the following four financial close goals with the aim to achieve them by 2025, Gartner noted. . 86% said they wanted a faster, real time close. 68% mentioned they want a cheaper close. 64% indicated they want an error-f

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Webinar: 2022 Virtual Card Solutions Survey Results | October 11

Strategic Treasurer

2022 Virtual Card Solutions Survey Results. October 11 | 11:00 AM EDT. Register Now. Date. Tuesday, October 11, 2022. Time. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT. Where. This is an online event. Speakers. Ankush Gupta, Mastercard. Craig Jeffery, Strategic Treasurer. Sponsored By. Hosted By. 1.2 CTP and FP&A re-certification credits are pending for attendance to this live webinar.

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What makes a great leader?

Future CFO

Today, it’s less about getting people to follow you to the future, more about getting them to co-create it with you. Harvard Business School’s Linda A. Hill, co-author of “Collective Genius”, spells out the new ABCs for leading innovation. The post What makes a great leader? appeared first on FutureCFO.

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The Market For “Lemons” In Financial Advice: How Higher Standards Can Lower Costs And Increase Access To Advice

Nerd's Eye View

In a now-famous 1970 paper, economist George Akerlof used the market for used cars to demonstrate the negative effects that can occur when there are significant information asymmetries between buyers and sellers of a good or service. He highlighted the market for used cars at the time, where, because consumers could not be sure of the quality of a used car they were offered, they were only willing to pay the price of a car in average condition, driving out sellers of high-quality used cars (R

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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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When should CFOs delegate? 

CFO Talks

The demands placed on CFOs are ever increasing. No longer limited to pure finance functions, CFOs are being drawn into everything from artificial intelligence adoption to ESG. Many CFOs are choosing to delegate more. . A 2021 survey found that 61% of South African and European CFOs have delegated more in pursuit of pace over perfection. On the other hand, there are aspects of a business that may require more involvement.

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Does ESG + ERP Make for a Better Planet?

Qubix

Human nature dictates that we must sit on a precipice of near destruction until change happens; in which, let’s do nothing until then, right? Brilliant!

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Postuniversitaire opleiding Curatoren & Vereffenaars: inschrijven kan nog

Corporate Finance Lab

De avondopleiding Curator-Vereffenaar van KU Leuven en UAntwerpen in nauw overleg met de Ondernemingsrechtbanken is intussen een vaste waarde. In oktober start een nieuwe editie van deze postuniversitaire opleiding. Het betreft opnieuw een dubbele editie die van start gaat in Kortrijk en Brugge en wordt hernomen in Leuven en Antwerpen. MODULE 1: Gerechtelijke reorganisatie Kortrijk: dinsdag 04 oktober 2022, aula B422, 18:00 – 22:00 Leuven: woensdag 12 oktober 2022, aud.

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Transcript: Steve Case

Barry Ritholtz

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including the podcast extras on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , Bloomberg , and Acast. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~. ANNOUNCER: This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio.

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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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Would You Still Buy A Tesla?

Barry Ritholtz

Note: This Bob Lefsetz piece is from earlier this year; I have been waiting to see how the Twitter deal might progress or unravel. Since there’s been real news recently on the litigation, it was high time to share this. (His reader pushback is here ) Personally, I have not ruled out a Tesla, but I also prefer EVs like the Taycan or the Mach E.

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