February, 2021

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Why The Data Breach Decline Is Bad News For Businesses

PYMNTS

The Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council (ITRC) released new data on the state of cyberattacks and data breaches with some surprising news: data breaches were actually down in 2020 year-over-year. But the findings aren't necessarily cause for optimism, warns ITRC President and CEO Eva Velasquez. “While it is encouraging to see the number of data breaches, as well as the number of people impacted by them, decline, people should understand that this problem is not going away,” she said i

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4 Emerging Roles of Finance Professionals

Fpanda Club

Fast-changing environment of the digital age requires not only rapid adaptation of business but also of the finance function, which leads to the evolving responsibilities and roles of the finance professionals. Today’s digital era is known as a turbulent environment with constant changes which forces companies to be extremely nimble to mitigate risks and, what is more important, to identify and capture opportunities.

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Get More out Your CRM: Tips for Better Sales Forecasting

Jedox Finance

The need to understand how to best manage the relationships a business has with its customers is not a new concept. Managing basic information such as who your customers are, where they are located, and what they want to buy was around long before the advent of desktop computers and the Internet. However, forecasting or predicting how much your customers want to buy or how well a business would perform in the future was much more difficult to achieve way back then.

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Five Critical Reports to Manage Your SaaS Business

The SaaS CFO

There are hundreds of reports that we could create to manage our SaaS businesses. In fact, I’m sure our CRM, accounting, and BI systems are littered with reports that no longer see the light of day. With so much data trapped in our SaaS business, it can be extremely hard to limit our focus to […].

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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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Seven Qualities of a Successful Transformation Leader

Anaplan

Digital transformation efforts have taken on a new urgency to help businesses drive performance with agility. Especially now, with condensed project timelines and teams scattered due to remote work, these transformation projects need a strong leader who can rally cross-functional teams around operational execution and financial performance. Whether you’re a finance leader heading up a […].

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VisaNet +AI Adds Predictive Element To Processing And Settlements

PYMNTS

Within financial services, artificial intelligence (AI) is typically deployed in various efforts to identify and stop fraud. But advanced technologies can also be leveraged to help financial institutions (FIs) operate more efficiently, improving the end-to-end payments experience for their consumers. It’s that holistic approach that has driven Visa ’s expanded AI initiative announced Tuesday (Feb. 2).

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Are You Happy Working in Finance?

Fpanda Club

Young people usually choose their career in finance as it seems to be rather easy to measure success: there is a beaten path from an entry-level accountant/auditor or financial analyst to finance manager and later to CFO. But with all this professional success going with a bunch of certifications and high salary, the real question that comes up is whether it is possible to be happy at work?

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How Unified Planning Helps Retailers Get Data Under Control

Jedox Finance

Heading into the 2020s and beyond, leading retailers are now moving to integrate their finance, operations and other core systems into unified decision-making platforms to conduct all their reporting, planning and analyses essential to driving sales, demand and growth. We spoke to Accent Group’s William Micati about their digital transformation journey.

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Aswath Damodaran on the COVID Crucible: A Play in Three Acts

CFA Institute

"In most crises, young companies suffer at the expense of old companies, risk-on companies get hurt more than risk-off companies," Aswath Damodaran said. "This crisis seems to have flipped the script.".

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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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Breaking down the organizational silos between CFO and CHRO | Anaplan

Anaplan

Traditionally, the CFO organization and the HR department have operated independently of each other. Any cross-overs have been in finite, well-defined functions: managing overtime costs, regulatory compliance, taxes, and so forth. The Chief HR Officer (CHRO) or Chief People Officer (CPO) looks at a company from the lens of organizational structure and reporting hierarchy; the […].

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Finance likely to invest in four emerging technologies

Future CFO

Finance functions are likely to invest in four emerging technologies, according to a Gartner survey of 167 finance organisations conducted last November. While cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the most favoured choice, other likely areas for investment include advanced data analytics, data storage, and robotic process automation (RPA), according to the advisory firm.

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Healthcare Rx: Flexible Payment Systems Drive Positive Patient Experience

PYMNTS

Although the U.S. healthcare system is lauded for providing the best, most advanced care in the world, when it comes to the payments practices being used with much of that industry, honorable mention might be a more fitting rank. This, despite the fact that consumers are not only accustomed to modern, seamless payments in almost every aspect of their lives, but studies show 1 in 4 patients say they’d switch to another provider or doctor that offered more payment options and a better patient expe

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Did you put the Right Person in the Right Role?

A Fractional CFO

Tony Fremarek of A Fractional CFO and Thomas Herman of CRO Executive RoundTable engage in a discussion around the Right Person for the Right Role. In small to mid-sized businesses, a hiring miss can be detrimental. It is also important to make sure that you.

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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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Regent Assay advise IDE Vision on the acquisition of the MPSII Macular Pigment Screener from Elektron Eye Technology

Regent Assay

Regent Assay has advised on the acquisition of the business and assets from Elektron Eye Technology by IDE Vision. The principal asset acquired is the MPSII, which was the world’s first commercially viable, patent-protected macular pigment measurement device which is used to determine the state of the macular pigment and has been shown to indicate the level of risk of a person developing Aged Related Macular Degeneration.

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How Long Does Competitive Advantage Last? A Sector Analysis

CFA Institute

Does a firm’s competitive advantage tend to endure longer in some sectors than others?

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What is Anaplan? And how does it exemplify Connected Planning?

Anaplan

The planning disconnect Every time a new year rolls around, many of us take it as an opportunity to reorder our lives. Reorganize closets or refrigerators, create an emergency go-bag, get ahead of tax planning so that the weekend before the filing deadline you’re not frantically pawing through a year’s worth of receipts – you […].

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Singaporean firms confident about longer-term recovery 

Future CFO

Singapore firms are more confident about a longer-term business recovery than a short-term rebound, a study by Workday revealed. Two-thirds of businesses (66%) are not confident in their business recovery prospects for the first quarter of 2021, but 76% say they are more confident over the next 12 months, said the company. Study highlights. 46% of Singaporean industries are still struggling to manage business disruption. 62% of companies said that it would take over four days to resolve a signif

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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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Fast Action: Tennessee Sportsbook Bets Service Quality On Instant Payments

PYMNTS

Michael Jordan is mostly known for one thing: basketball. And as he once said about hoops, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” But perhaps his best quote comes from his other pastime, gambling: “I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it’s meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.”.

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Quickly assessing the maturity of your treasury and cash activities

PWC UK

by Thomas Knudsen Senior Manager. Email +44 (0)7595 850102. More articles by Thomas. I have a challenge for the treasury community. After the past year can you, as a treasury professional, say with a reasonable amount of confidence that you have a treasury set-up that is robust and effective? Can you also say that you do not have material challenges monitoring and managing your cash and risks?

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4 Simple Steps to Building a Pricing Model (and Getting Paid What You’re Worth)

The CFO College

Properly quoting (and collecting) accounting fees can be an overwhelming hurdle for many bookkeepers, especially those just opening up their own practice. If you don’t have a pricing system in place, you run the risk of undercutting your value and inviting potential clients to hire a cheaper (or automated) option. Fortunately, that overwhelm you may be feeling can be easily dissolved with a few tips and reassessment of your value.

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ESG Matters: Global Trends and Transitions

CFA Institute

How are women growing in importance in the investment ecosystem? How are firms approaching the sustainability journey?

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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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How to combine agility and resiliency to drive business

Anaplan

Looking back on 2020, every company was forced to be more agile to quickly respond and adapt to unprecedented conditions. For example, almost every retailer rapidly offered curb-side pickup; shifted inventories for consumers working-from-home; started selling masks and hand sanitizer; and more. But the cost of being so agile cuts into profitability.

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Mitigating financial fraud risk with data analytics

Future CFO

At the launch of a recent report examining the effectiveness of financial fraud risk management, Julie Bell Lindsay - the Executive Director at the Center for Audit Quality — was quoted as saying that “the risk of financial statement fraud at public companies is real, and that risk has only increased during the pandemic.”. The risks associated with financial fraud that modern CFOs face today is particularly high.

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GM’s Electric Vehicle Makeover Reverberates Far Beyond Detroit

PYMNTS

Beneath a banner proclaiming “Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, Zero Congestion,” General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra announced her company’s plan to produce 100 percent electric vehicles by 2035, the most sweeping overhaul of any major global automaker in the history of the industry. While the wisdom and strategy can be debated, there is no arguing the fact that GM’s decision to wean itself — and the world — off of fossil fuels will have tectonic effects that will be felt far beyond Detroit, and will ta

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Maximize Your Second Draw From The Paycheck Protection Program! The Trusted CFO Solutions Team Is Ready to Help!

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Did you miss out on relief funds during the first round of PPP? We have good news! On January 13th, 2021, Congress opened up $285 billion for PPP2 (Paycheck Protection Program) funding making it possible for you to strengthen your business with available financial funding of 2.5x to 3.5x your monthly payroll in a 100% forgivable loan. PPP2 Program Updates.

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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.