Mon.Jan 30, 2023

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What's a static budget? Here's what you need to know

Cube Software

Static budgeting is a popular method to keep track of a company's revenues and expenses.

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What is ESG?

Mckinsey and Company

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are useful in measuring a company’s progress toward achieving social goals in addition to creating shareholder value.

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Battling SEC, crypto firm Gemini picks new finance head

CFO Dive

Gemini’s new finance chief takes the helm as the cryptocurrency sector faces increased scrutiny from regulators. Its partner Genesis filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this month.

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Better health among Middle Eastern employees can start with awareness

Mckinsey and Company

A survey of workers in four Middle Eastern countries provides a baseline for understanding the state of employee health and informing strategies to improve outcomes.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Accountants may underestimate impact of Fed tightening: survey

CFO Dive

“Further monetary tightening appears inevitable,” the ACCA and IMA said as the Federal Reserve prepared for a two-day policy meeting beginning Tuesday.

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Ex-Pfizer CFO talks tactics for first-timers

CFO Dive

Frank D’Amelio, a veteran finance chief, says being ‘a player on the field’ is key for success during unpredictable times.

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AI = BS | naked capitalism

CFO News Room

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Or, to expand the acronyms in the family blog-friendly headline, “Artificial Intelligence[1] = B t.” This is very easy to prove. In the first part of this short-and-sweet post, I will do that. Then, I will give some indication of the state of play of this latest Silicon Valley Bezzle, sketch a few of the implications, and conclude.

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Sleep Number on hunt for new CFO

CFO Dive

The company’s chief human resources officer is moving into the CFO role temporarily.

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The Fed should stand pat on further interest rate hikes at this week’s meeting: Inflation is easing even as the labor market remains strong

CFO News Room

Inflation and all of its main drivers sharply decelerated in the last half of 2022. This was the case even though the pace of economic growth accelerated in the second half of the year and unemployment remained very low. The Federal Reserve’s “dual mandate” is meant to balance the risks of inflation versus the benefits of fast growth and low unemployment.

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8 Signs Your Accounting Team Is Ready to Automate Month-End Close

Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem

How do you know if your accounting team is ready to automate the month-end close? Join us in this informative webinar, where we share the top 8 signs that indicate that a team has outgrown all existing tools and may be ready to embark upon month-end close automation. We will examine the process clues that help determine whether your team would be a good candidate for automation.

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5 questions for CFOs before selecting subscription KPIs

CFO Dive

Selecting the right subscription KPIs is imperative for CFOs looking to drive shareholder value.

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Garet Garrett, the Great | AIER

CFO News Room

It’s time for liberty lovers to (re)acquaint themselves with Garet Garrett , a prolific voice of the Old Right. It’s not that everything the largely homeschooled farm boy wrote was right – he reconciled himself to the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and some restrictions on trade and immigration – but that what his “unsanctioned voice” got right, especially about the New Deal, was analytically powerful, yet largely forgotten today.

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Simple, But Hard

Barry Ritholtz

We live in an age of contextless slogans. It is the stock in trade of Instagram Influencers, TikTok Investors, and grinding side hustles. It’s a new flavor of b t designed to sell unwitting dupes some garbage product or worse, a destructive half-assed philosophy. In 2020, all you had to do was Hodl Meme stocks; In 2021, it was day trade your way to wealth; before that, just be a Crypto bro, or you can “ Have fun being poor !

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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Carvana, AMD and more

CFO News Room

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Monday. Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square in New York, Dec. 23, 2021. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Colgate-Palmolive — Shares gained 2.8% after Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock to overweight from equal weight and named it the top pick in the household and personal care industry. The firm said the stock was at a good price point after a recent selloff.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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10 Monday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Breakup of Google’s Ad Business Would Reshape $500 Billion Sector : If government prevails, an asset spinoff is thought to be more likely than a sale. ( Wall Street Journal ) • China’s Big Comeback Is Just Getting Started : The country’s stocks are up 50% since officials rolled back Covid-19 restrictions.

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Tyre Nichols’s Death Raises Questions About Race and Policing

CFO News Room

Gerry Baker is Editor at Large of The Wall Street Journal. His weekly column for the editorial page, “Free Expression,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Tuesday. Mr. Baker is also host of “WSJ at Large with Gerry Baker,” a weekly news and current affairs interview show on the Fox Business Network, and the weekly WSJ Opinion podcast “ Free Expression ” where he speaks with some of the world’s leading writers, influencers and thinkers about a variety of subjects.

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Bitcoin Mining and Local Stock Market Performance Correlations

CFA Institute

Is there a relationship between where bitcoin is mined and how the performance of the local equity markets correlated with bitcoin prices?

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Economic survey pegs 2023-24 growth at 6-6.8%

CFO News

​​The economy is estimated to grow 7% in the current fiscal year that ends March 31 as compared to the 8.7% growth recorded in the preceding year.

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Predictions You Can Rely On: How Data Drives Successful Financial Forecasting

Speaker: Robbie Bhathal, Founder & CEO, and Matthew Acalin, Head of Credit Intelligence

In today's volatile financial environment, how confident are you in your company’s financial forecasting? To get the most accurate cash predictions that will lead to long-term financial survival, real-time data is critical. Innovative cash management strategies can lead to better credit opportunities, more sustainable growth, and long-term financial prosperity.

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Data Update 3 for 2023: Inflation and Interest Rates

Musings on Markets

If 2022 was an unsettling year for equities, as I noted in my second data post, it was an even more tumultuous year for the bond market. The US treasury market, considered by some still as a safe haven, was anything but safe or a haven, especially at the long maturities, as long term rates soared, with inflation (not the Fed) being the key driver. As a result, treasury bond investors faced one of their worst years in history, losing close to a fifth of their principal, as bonds were repriced.

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Fintech companies ask RBI for clear first loss default guarantee framework

CFO News

While most want FLDG structures between regulated cos, some eye securitisation structure for unregulated.

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Egg-cellent Insights: From Farm to Table

E78 Partners

Vital Farms , a provider of ethically produced pasture-raised eggs and butter, partnered with E78 Partners to revamp their Enterprise Data Management – Streamlining the process of extracting and organizing the data they rely on every day to build scalable and real-time insights for years to come. The Challenge Managing the data from 200+ pastures home to 2.5 million hens is not an easy task, and distilling that into real-time insights can be next to impossible without a cohesive process to

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Snowman Logistics appoints N Balakrishna as CFO

CFO News

Balakrishna has over 12 years of experience in finance and business functions across various industries, that includes stints at Deloitte, Pennar Industries Ltd and Etisalat Group.

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How Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Drive Business Results

Employees who feel listened to show a 64% longer commitment to tasks (Forbes). And that’s just for starters. Learn how emotionally intelligent leaders drive business results. Download Paycor’s guide for the full story.

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FutureCFO Excellence Awards 2023 finalists unveiled

Future CFO

Deloitte listed talent, performance and growth as the priorities of finance leaders in 2022. Among finance leaders, the commonality we hear are goals that include developing digital skills, restructuring/reframing finance to support a digital-first, digital-native enterprise, further improving flexibility of budgeting and finance recognising the uncertainty of what lies ahead and improving the return on enterprise-wide digital investments.

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Expecting slowdown in Indian economy to 6.1% in 2023 from 6.8% in 2022, says IMF

CFO News

“Growth in India is set to decline from 6.8% in 2022 to 6.1% in 2023 before picking up to 6.8% in 2024, with resilient domestic demand despite external headwinds,” the IMF said in its World Economic Outlook Update of January 2023.

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CFOs in China should take up bigger role in digital transformation

Future CFO

CFOs in China need to take up a bigger role when it comes to digital transformation, said Deloitte recently when releasing results of a survey. According to the company, Deloitte China CFO Program conducted the survey in September with the theme "CFO leadership in the age of digital intelligence” and the respondents are CFOs from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR from a wide range of industries including energy, resources, and industrials; financial services; technology, media, a

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India economic survey likely to peg 2023-24 growth at 6-6.8%: Source

CFO News

The government survey is likely to say that growth is seen at 6.5% for 2023-24 under the baseline scenario, the person said, declining to be named since the matter is confidential. Nominal growth is likely to be forecast at 11% for 2023-24, the source added.

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Acterys: Revolutionizing CIO & CFO Decision-Making

Welcome to the Future of Technology for CIOs & CFOs! Ever stood on the precipice of a technological revolution, feeling the energy of change? Ever been captivated by the whispers of a software that's not just innovative but genuinely groundbreaking? Acterys unveils a groundbreaking technology tailored for CIOs and CFOs. This state-of-the-art solution streamlines data integration, analytics, and forecasting, empowering leaders to make informed decisions quickly.

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CFOs – Masters of people, tech and finance skills

CFO Talks

By Jeff Ryan , MD of AWCape , a Platinum Sage business partner for HR, payroll and financial solutions Higher levels of automation in the finance department are clearing the way for chief finance officers (CFOs) to expand their role beyond number crunching and compliance gatekeeping to providing data-driven strategic advice to the other members of the C-suite.

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Adani Group plans independent audit of group companies

CFO News

The audit will be commissioned after the group's unit, Adani Enterprises Ltd, completes its follow-on public offering, based on which legal options will be decided, the report said, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Focus on Growth or De-risking in 2023?

Focus CFO

A new U.S. Bank survey of large-company CFOs has found that, as new challenges loom- from inflation to the effects of the war in Ukraine - many CFOs are shifting their priorities. The survey results indicated that many financial leaders are focusing on risk and cost management and away from growth.