Mon.Aug 29, 2022

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Rise of female CFOs outpaces slowing diversity gains

CFO Dive

Women comprised 16% of big company CFOs while Black, Latino and Asian executives held 10.9% of the top finance seats as of July 31, a study found.

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Is this chart going up or down?

The Reformed Broker

Is this chart going up or down? It’s not a trick question. Just look at it and tell me what primary the trend is. You’d be amazed at how many financial advisors, insurance brokers acting as financial advisors, financial planners, wirehouse wealth managers, financial consultants and other assorted intermediaries in this business could not for the life of them look at this chart and give you a straight answer.

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Earnings Roundup: Automakers confront clogged supply chains, recession fears

CFO Dive

CFOs from GM, Rivian and Uber indicate positive trends for the second half of the year despite facing lingering supply chain challenges as recession looms.

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Top ERP for Biotechnology

Navigator SAP

Enterprises in biotech often integrate advanced life sciences software to improve quality assurance, organizational efficiency, and compliance–but choosing the right ERP is difficult. Much depends on the nature of the company; for example, a small or midsize corporation needs to balance functionality versus cost.

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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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Guide: How to turn your tax function into a strategic profit centre

CFO Dive

Many tax department heads and CFOs believe their organisations’ tax function needs to become more efficient and well-integrated.

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SEC boosts incentives for whistleblowers

CFO Dive

The SEC awarded a record $564 million to 108 whistleblowers last year and receives dozens of tips of wrongdoing each day.

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Gen X spoke at the VMAs last night

The Reformed Broker

You don’t have to go checking to see all the other performances from last night’s Music Video Awards on MTV, you can just take my word for it – RHCP was the highlight. Nice to see Generation X is still in the conversation <laugh cry emoji>, very quietly being talented and capable while the Boomers and Millennials continue their culture war blood feud.

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How adopting OKRs can help CFOs through a recession

CFO Dive

When it comes to setting a company’s objectives, less is more, advises Gtmhub Vice President Jenny Herald.

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Powell Prescribes More Economic Pain: Three Financial History Lessons Support His Diagnosis

CFA Institute

“The first lesson is that central banks can and should take responsibility for delivering low and stable inflation,” Jerome Powell says.

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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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[PODCAST] Sox Talks

CFO Dive

Tune into the new Sox Talks podcast to hear what SOX has accomplished—and what comes next.

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Cochrane and Coleman: Quantitative Easing and Asset Price Dynamics

CFA Institute

"Wall Street wisdom is that QE is immensely powerful and is stoking financial bubbles. Academics say, 'I take your $100 bills, I give you back 10 $10 bills. Who cares?'".

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The Challenges of Constant Change and the Need for Accurate Scenario Planning

Centage

It’s impossible to know for certain what the future holds. However, the area in which successful companies excel is responding to change. Along with being agile and able to pivot on a dime, these businesses have the ability to make decisions and act on them with confidence, and that means mastering the art of scenario planning. A way to secure control despite uncertain circumstances, scenario planning involves identifying assumptions about the future and creating a plan for how your business wi

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Your Input Requested – Reader Survey For Nerd’s Eye View (2022)

Nerd's Eye View

For most advisory firms, 2022 has been a year of relative stability, market volatility notwithstanding. After 2 years of the pandemic forcing massive changes to most firms’ systems and processes, from client meetings to internal management to marketing and business development, advisory firms are increasingly ‘finding their groove’ in this new post-pandemic (or at least, post-acute-pandemic) era as they grow accustomed to the new ways of getting business done.

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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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Employee Spotlight: Meet Zack Moss

FISPAN

In this month’s employee spotlight, we’re getting to know Zack Moss , Software Engineer at FISPAN. Having joined the team as a co-op in the same position, Zack works on engineering features and improvements for our backend connections to ERPs.

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How the Digital Solutions Economy is Impacting the Medical Devices Industry

Bramasol

This episode in our ongoing series on the Digital Solutions Economy (DSE) provides an overview of how DSE is impacting the Medical Devices Industry. Click here to read episodes on DSE in the Utilities Industry , and DSE in the Oil, Gas and Energy Sector. Overview. The medical device market has traditionally evolved around a capital equipment acquisition model in which customers, such as hospitals, clinics or other providers, purchase or lease the equipment and separately purchase consumables and

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The Challenges of Constant Change and the Need for Accurate Scenario Planning

Centage

It’s impossible to know for certain what the future holds. However, the area in which successful companies excel is responding to change. Along with being agile and able to pivot on a dime, these businesses have the ability to make decisions and act on them with confidence, and that means mastering the art of scenario planning. . A way to secure control despite uncertain circumstances, scenario planning involves identifying assumptions about the future and creating a plan for how your business w

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Answers with Adam: What Inspires You About Other Business Owners?

Adam Kae

[link] Question: What inspires you about other business owners? CFO Adam: The biggest thing that inspires me about other business owners is the energy they flow into their business every day, every week, every month. To see them hitting goals, to see them hiring new staff, to see them bringing on new clients, that is so empowering to me because the more they grow, the more I'm able to help them.

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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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SWIFT ASEAN head: Be self-aware, know your forte

Future CFO

Editor’s note: Self-awareness might help set you apart as a leader and a person. This is what Sharon Toh (pictured), Head of ASEAN Region at SWIFT demonstrates. One of her hobbies is writing, which not only helps her relieve stress but also dig deeper into her thoughts and reflect on her leadership and personal growth, Toh said in an interview for FutureCFO's Female Leadership in Finance Series.

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The case for integrated workforce planning

Anaplan

We’ve all been in those meetings where a business leader desperately wants to add capacity – 10 more people by the end of the quarter, say – and they haven’t been able to reach that goal. FP&A numbers show that headcount only grew by four. The talent organization counters that they hired nine people in […].

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The 23 Best Corporate Performance Management Software (for 2023)

Cube Software

CPM, or corporate performance management, helps businesses ensure that all financial needs for optimal business operation are met. It involves financial budgeting , planning, modeling, data congregating—and more.

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Recession Proof Your Business

Finvisage

Inflation, Recession or Stagflation? The confused state of 2022. The last two years since the pandemic have been mostly difficult for everybody, but especially so for economists of the world. It’s almost as if their worst nightmare has come true. How so? Economists generally look at three macroeconomic variables to determine the state of the economy: GDP, unemployment and inflation.

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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.

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What is Workforce Planning?

Cube Software

If you want to get products and services to market quickly, you need the right people to make it happen.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

Barry Ritholtz

Transcript: The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Eric Balchunas on the Vanguard Effect , 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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South Africa: improve productivity and the efficiency of public spending to bolster living standards, says OECD

CFO Talks

OECD – Paris, 25 August 2022. South Africa needs to step up its reform efforts to avoid its economic recovery from the COVID-19. pandemic losing steam, according to a new OECD report. Persistent weaknesses in productivity. growth and the negative impact of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine on purchasing power. through the rise in food and energy prices continue to weigh on economic activity.

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10 Monday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • ‘Inflation Fever’ Is Finally Breaking — But Central Banks Won’t Stop Hiking Rates : Slowdowns on key commodity markets signal some relief is in store after worst price shock in decades. ( Bloomberg ). • The Office’s Last Stand : It’s either the end of the era of flexibility around where work takes place — or the beginning of outright rebellion. ( New York Times ) see also What Remote Work Debate?

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.