Fri.Nov 18, 2022

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U.S. will ‘narrowly avoid recession’: Goldman Sachs

CFO Dive

The Federal Reserve will slow the pace of tightening next month and early next year but not cut the federal funds rate until Q2 2024, Goldman Sachs predicted.

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Cloud Infrastructure is Being Understood Wrong

Navigator SAP

It isn’t a stretch to say that most businesses are in the cloud right now. But the way that most businesses use the cloud today is just the first step. The next step, and the real reason to move entirely to the cloud, is what will be taking place within the next few years. The first step, well documented and given the buzzword “ digital transformation ,” was moving business systems to the cloud.

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Cloud firm Lacework taps new CFO, considers IPO

CFO Dive

Symantec and Oracle alum Andrew Casey will bring his industry expertise to the CFO role as Lacework prepares to go public.

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How to Invest $500: 13 Ways to Grow Your Money

CFO News Room

If you have $500 to invest right now, you probably feel on top of the world. While that’s not a ton of money, it’s better than nothing – and way more than enough to start building toward the lifestyle you want. . Many multi-millionaires started investing small sums, even $10 or $25 per month! The key to making your $500 grow is to put in an investment that suits your risk tolerance and goals and add more regularly. 13 Best Ways to Invest $500.

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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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Lease abandonments trigger accounting questions

CFO Dive

Companies are wrestling with the accounting implications of shrinking their real estate footprints. It’s not as simple as moving out and moving on.

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KeyBank taps chief strategy officer as next CFO

CFO Dive

Clark H.I. Khayat has guided the Cleveland-based lender through several niche acquisitions. He succeeds Don Kimble, who is set to retire May 1.

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Ross Stores, Carvana, Coinbase, Rent the Runway and more

CFO News Room

Pedestrians pass in front of a GAP store in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC. Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Ross Stores — Ross Stores jumped 10% after a quarterly beat on earnings and revenue. The company was also named by Credit Suisse as its top pick in the off-price retail sector. Analyst Michael Binetti boosted his price target to $123 from $99.

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How to Compare ERP Systems

Navigator SAP

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has become a critical tool for medium-sized manufacturing and distribution firms that want complete visibility into core business processes. ERP systems allow the seamless flow of information and data across different departments, which improves the efficiency of processes and the profitability of a business.

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Worse Than Enron

The Reformed Broker

Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends. This week, Michael Batnick, Gregor Macdonald, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss the latest on the Sam Bankman-Fried saga, the inverted yield curve, electrification of the power grid, the growth of electric vehicles, peak oil, and much more! You can listen to the whole thing below, or find it wherever you like to listen to your favorite pods!

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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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What are the steps to building an elite finance team, now and in the future?

CFO News Room

Good CFOs delegate – but, of course, ‘delegation’ implies the presence of skilled deputies who can take control when necessary. Join ICAEW’s head of business Simon Gray, Soldo and an esteemed panel of finance experts to outline what a good finance team looks like. Key topics. The future skills needed to build an elite finance team. The role of technology and how it can support your team.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Nov 19-20)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that AdvisorTech giant Envestnet has announced a partnership with New Zealand-based FNZ that will allow Envestnet to offer custodial services to advisors beginning in the second half of 2023. At a time of significant change in the RIA custodial space, epitomized by the ‘Schwabitrade’ integration (also in late 2023), Envestnet’s custodial offe

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

CFO News Room

Yves here. In an interview with Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Nomi Prins takes up and extends the argument that she has made over a series of books, that central bankers are ever-more administering policies that are good for the markets but very bad for the real economy and real people. By Lynn Parramore, senior research analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

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10 Friday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • Can Silicon Valley Save Abortion? New femtech startups are pushing boundaries as investors weigh the risks — and the potential rewards. ( Institutional Investor ). • These companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days : The same pay for less time at work? 73 companies ran an experiemnt.

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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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More CMOs Are Investing in Their Personal Brands

CFO News Room

Chief marketing officers are spending more time, and increasingly spending money, to build a different kind of brand: their own. Eighty percent of marketing executives say they are actively developing their own brands, with more than half of that group planning to invest more time and resources, according to a survey of 186 executives conducted between Nov. 2 and Nov. 9 by CMO Council, a trade group that includes more than 16,000 marketers.

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When Narratives Collapse

Barry Ritholtz

Every now and again, we reach a moment in time when the scales fall from our eyes, and reality is revealed to us. We are now at one of those moments when the stories we tell ourselves have fallen apart. The dominant narratives are failing. Not their irresistible appeal to our deep lizard brains, but rather, their ability to lead us by telling a compelling story.

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Voters turned out for economic justice: A review of key ballot measures from the 2022 midterm elections

CFO News Room

In this year’s midterm elections, voters showed a strong level of support for progressive ballot measures across the country. These victories were tempered by the defeat of worthwhile ballot measures in some states and the uncertainty of progress under a divided Congress. Nonetheless, voters across the country approved minimum wage increases, protected access to abortion, supported cannabis legalization, and approved measures to increase housing affordability and promote good union jobs.

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