December, 2022

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Are you Researching ERP for 2023?

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For CFOs rethinking growth, profitability, data is key

CFO Dive

Investing in data analytics that can reveal key opportunities can aid CFOs looking to better balance growth and profitability.

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Efficiency First: Tech Trends for Finance Teams in 2023

The Finance Weekly

First things first: despite any misguided "Excel is dead" stories you may encounter in the upcoming weeks, Excel won't disappear in 2023. The humble spreadsheet remains an essential, if not critical, component of many financial operations. Therefore, while we won't pay attention to what is or isn't happening to Excel (or Google Sheets), we can predict some CFO tech trends in 2023.

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Many CFOs are paralyzed by decision volume: Accenture

CFO Dive

An expanding scope of responsibilities — which require finance chiefs to have cross-disciplinary expertise — is slowing decision making, according to an Accenture study.

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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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Top 0.1%: How Much Wealth Does It Take?

Barry Ritholtz

I was working on a longer piece about which economic strata the Fed has the greatest impact on (its more complicated than you might think) when Invictus DM’d me this amazing FRED chart. We looked at this idea earlier this year , but it’s worth revisiting. Using data from the Federal Reserve, FRED analyzed 5 categories: Top 0.1%, the rest of the top 1%, the rest of the top 10%, the rest of the top 50%, and the bottom half.

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Why Startups Need More Than Accounting Software for Financials

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There are typically three phases of a startup’s financial management journey.

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What’s Next for CFOs? Setting the Finance Function Up for Success in 2023

CFO Leadership

CFOs have positioned themselves as key contributors to the enterprises’ strategy and in C-suite and boardroom discussions. Now, as these leaders shift more attention toward preparing for the future, they need to continue to drive business forward with data-driven insights. Here are resources from Robert Half and Protiviti to help you prepare your finance function for the road ahead. 2022 Global Finance Trends Survey.

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Where Do The Savings Go?

CFO News Room

Innovation and exchange can be frustratingly uninspiring, particularly given that there are concentrated, vivid costs (in the form of lost jobs and struggling communities) and benefits dispersed across millions of people who might not even notice. Is it worth shutting a textile mill in the United States and opening a “sweatshop” in southeast Asia, so Americans can save a few cents on socks?

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3 reforms for the post-FTX crypto era

CFO Dive

FTX’s collapse underscores the highly-centralized crypto market’s risks and blockchain’s importance as a defense against bad actors, Metallicus' CFO argues.

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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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Why they clapped for Sam Bankman-Fried

The Reformed Broker

LET’S GIVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO SAM BANKMAN-FRIED pic.twitter.com/HIVB3nTX2V — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) November 30, 2022 Last night’s interview between the New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin and Sam Bankman-Fried ended with the host thanking the accused criminal mastermind for coming, despite the protestations of his lawyers. The audience applauded as the screen went black.

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The Six Stages of Asset Bubbles: The Crypto Crash

CFA Institute

Investors can protect themselves from the next bubble by recognizing the trajectory that most follow.

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How CFOs Can Improve Remote Teams with Cloud ERP

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What if working remotely was exactly the same as working in the office?

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What India Inc CFOs make of slower Q2 GDP growth

CFO News

Most finance heads vouch for the India growth story and say prospects in the medium to long term are intact. However, they are worried about inflation and recession.

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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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Shaw Communications, Li Auto, Southwest and others

CFO News Room

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Shaw Communications (SJR) – Canada’s Competition Tribunal dismissed an attempt by the country’s competition watchdog to block the $26 billion acquisition of the telecom company by rival Rogers Communications (RCI). Shaw surged 10.1% in the premarket, while Rogers gained 0.4%. Li Auto (LI) – Li Auto said it expected to deliver more than 20,000 of its electric vehicles this month, higher than the 14,087 the China-based EV maker

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PwC tackles blockchain’s carbon footprint

CFO Dive

A standardized method to evaluate the carbon footprint of blockchain initiatives could help CFOs meet sustainability targets.

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Join me Friday on the annual YCharts year-end webinar

The Reformed Broker

Each Christmas season I do a webinar with my friends at YCharts where we take a look back at the most important charts of the year and discuss which of these trends will remain important going forward. It’s always a lot of fun and registration is free. This takes place tomorrow (Friday) December 9th at 12 noon ET (11am CT). This is a presentation for wealth management and asset management professionals, you can reg.

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What Can AI Do for Investment Portfolios? A Case Study

CFA Institute

One AI equity trading model hints at the technology's potential to transform investment management.

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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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ERP is Financial Management for Today and the Future

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History of Industries Listed on S&P 500

Barry Ritholtz

Source: QAD Blog. A perfect way to end the 2022 annus horriblis is to remind readers that not just individual stocks, but entire sectors fall in and out of favor. It iss extremely challenging to select the right sector at the right time (and for the right reasons). Almost nobody does this well consistently over time. Here is QAD from 2019: In business, change is inevitable , and those that fail to adapt and innovate are often doomed to failure.

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HBR’s Most-Read Research Articles of 2022

CFO News Room

For many of us, the arrival of a new year can be equal parts inspiring and daunting. While the promise of a fresh start is often welcome, it’s also a reminder of all the challenges we faced in the last 12 months — and all those still awaiting us, that we have yet to overcome. But as we set about drafting our New Year’s resolutions, it’s helpful to remember all the progress we’ve already made.

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IPO proceeds plunge 94%: EY

CFO Dive

Investors sizing up prospects in the sluggish IPO market in 2023 will favor companies with “resilient” business models, EY said.

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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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This Week on TRB

The Reformed Broker

We’re having a live podcast taping to benefit one of our favorite charities, No Kid Hungry. It’s The Compound’s first ever Fan Appreciation Night and we’re joining forces with our friends at the On The Tape podcast to make it a great experience. Taping is December 16th at the Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square. We’re reviewing the year that was and looking ahead to 2023.

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Indian IT could bag a big slice of $160 billion tech deals in Q1 2023

CFO News

The value of the new deals could amount to nearly a fifth of the global IT services business valued at $800 billion, according to Ray Wang, founder of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research.

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How SAP Business ByDesign Offers Advantages for the Life Sciences Industry

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The life science industry has to meet strict regulatory requirements in an extremely competitive environment burdened with financial pressures and unique market demands. Companies in this field can spend years in product development, conceptualizing, and running preliminary clinical trials before they can get approval from the FDA to manufacture and sell a product to consumers.

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What the Fed Gets Wrong

Barry Ritholtz

There seems to be a lot of confusion going on today with respect to inflation, interest rates, and ongoing Federal Reserve policy. A framework for exploring this has many parts: What the Fed (obviously) knows, how it express those views through police like FOMC rates, ZIRP, QE, QT, etc. There remains the question of what the Fed is actually wrong about. 1 .

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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.