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Why It’s Time for Finance to change

Jedox Finance

Ask finance and accounting professionals if they would like to do more value adding work and you’ll hear a re-sounding “YES!” Ask them why they are not just doing it already and most often you will hear “I don’t have time”. This is like a chronic disease of the finance function but unlike most chronical diseases this one has a cure! To change the mindset of CFOs and their finance function from “a cost center to becoming a profit driver” as we discussed in a previous article, “Exploring the minds

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Why is Oracle EPM Cloud so Groovy?

Qubix

Have you ever wondered what Groovy is and what makes it so crucial to enhancing the depth and breadth of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud capabilities? This blog explains what Groovy is, why it matters, and what problems it can solve for your business.

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How To Prepare for Financial Risk With Continuous Planning

Planful

A CFO should do everything in their power to avoid events that would damage their company’s finances. Yet, many CFOs are risk-averse to a fault. Ernst & Young’s 2020 DNA of the CFO survey revealed that finance teams in private organizations “are seen as too risk-averse and cost-conscious.” These risk-averse CFOs often shy away from […].

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Less Efficient Markets = Higher Alpha?

CFA Institute

Shouldn't less efficient capital markets with greater information asymmetries offer more alpha opportunities?

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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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Exploring the mindset of CFO 4.0

Jedox Finance

“What got you here won’t get you there” is a popular saying and CFOs around the world have long since realized this. However, creating the actual change needed to “get us there” is not taking place at the speed required. The WHY is understood but the WHAT and the HOW is where the going gets tough. In a recent post “Behold the Emergence of CFO 4.0” , we explored the emergence of CFO 4.0 and outlined five key changes for CFOs and their finance teams to make to get into the future.

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Employee Spotlight: Meet Nigel Bateman

FISPAN

In this month’s issue of our Employee Spotlight series, we’re getting to know FISPAN’s Technical Pre-Sales Manager , Nigel Bateman. Nigel joined FISPAN three years ago, having previously worked in both Technology (Financial Services) and Management Consulting at Accenture. Since then, Nigel has worked his way across several business areas at FISPAN — today, he’s an integral part of our Sales and Strategy team.

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Sustainability, ESG, and the Future of Investing: A Review

CFA Institute

This curated collection of Enterprising Investor 's ESG coverage showcases the key sustainability issues through the perspectives of both ESG proponents and critics.

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The Evolving Role of FP&A: The Value of Extended Planning

Jedox Finance

The role Financial Planning & Analysis plays within an organization has always been vitally important. At a recent CFO Magazine Australia event on the 'Future of Finance,' three industry professionals using Jedox shared how FP&A has supported their organizations through very challenging times.

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What is Financial Reporting?

Centage

Financial reporting is a critical task for any organization. Understanding where your actual financials stand in relation to budgets and projections is important to keeping your business on track and in helping to create new projections and budgets. For most organizations there are four key financial statements that present a complete picture of the financial condition and results of a business: Balance sheet : Lays out the ending balances in a company’s asset, liability, and equity accou

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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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What Is The Most Important Number In The Universe?

The CFO Centre

Numbers matter. Our mathematical universe is constructed of numbers. Some we can see. Most we can’t. From the speed of light to the parabolic curve of a free-kick in soccer, maths underpins the laws of the universe. We can also deconstruct our entire lives in numbers. The average human lives for around 80 years – […]. The post What Is The Most Important Number In The Universe?

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Passive Management: The Baseline for Defined Contribution Plan Sponsors?

CFA Institute

If active managers cannot add value, then passive is the preferred position, not the other way around.

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Getting Started Successfully with Low-Code and No-Code Platforms

Collectiv

Even if you’re not a developer, it’s possible to create highly complex applications without spending a huge chunk of your budget or waiting around for months or years. If you’re looking for someone to thank…thank the low-code no-code approach. Low-code or no-code platforms ensure you write little to no code as you produce robust applications that both support and advance your enterprise.

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Delaware Incorporation: To Flip or Not to Flip? That is the Question

VCFO

The U.S. share of global venture investment has held steady at around 50% for the past five years. It was 51% in 2020. While this is down from an 84% share in 2004, and 90%+ share throughout the 1990s, high-growth tech companies with global market opportunities and unicorn potential would nonetheless be foolish not to consider the possibility of accessing the U.S.

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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 is Ransomware, How Does It Affect Your Business & How Can You Prevent It?

CFO Leadership

Picture this: you’re working at your desk, just like any other normal weekday. Your notification bell dings and suddenly there’s an email in your inbox that, though it looks somewhat suspicious, mentions a C-suite executive, client, or other internal information. It could be important, so you click the link or download the attached file. Your screen goes black and a pop up window comes up demanding money in exchange for your company data.

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How Do I Recover from Business Financial Fraud?

CFO Share

Small business fraud is an unfortunately common occurrence. In fact, more fraud occurs in small businesses than in large corporations due to the lack of controls and oversight. If you have detected signs of fraud or identified a fraudster, you are halfway through the journey towards recovering from fraud. What are the signs of business financial fraud?

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Finance and IT: Why Collaboration Matters

Beacon CFO Plus

by Rob Joseph, Director, BeaconCFO Plus. In many organizations, the information technology (IT) and finance departments have long had a transactional relationship, handing off a task or project rather than working together. You may even occasionally hear things like this: “Finance just doesn’t get it.” . “IT has no idea how we operate.” . These statements are becoming a thing of the past as the digital shift across all industries has linked finance and IT like never before—and more organizations

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Four Techniques Companies Use To Advance In Today’s New Economic Environment

The Finance Weekly

This past year has magnified challenges for organizations and their respective industries in unique ways, but there's one common theme we've noticed across the board: Those who were able to adapt quickly found new, unexpected ways to thrive and grow in the midst of one of the most difficult market environments in modern history. It all boiled down to one thing - speed.

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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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9 Nobrainer Steps to Prevent Ransomware for Your Company

CFO Leadership

Though ransomware doesn’t get nearly as much attention as the more general malware, after you learned what ransomware is, you’re probably starting to see how much more crippling it can be for businesses of all sizes. So what’s a company to do to prevent ransomware? Luckily, there’s a lot you can do prior to a ransomware attack. Like with all cybersecurity, proactive measures end up preventing more attacks from happening.

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CFOs: 60% of organisations experienced wage inflation in 2Q21

Future CFO

A global survey of 111 CFOs from different industries in July revealed that 60% of organisations experienced wage inflation in 2Q21, nearly double the amount compared to the previous quarter, said Gartner recently. Nearly three in four CFOs polled cited the risk of lower profitability as their top concern as organisations face broad-based input price inflation increases, ranging from salaries and wages to higher costs for commodities and freight shipping, the advisory firm noted.

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What is the difference between integrated business planning (IBP) and Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A)?

Anaplan

IBP and xP&A are the future of enterprise business planning, but each has unique attributes to fit various use cases.

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Finance Teams: Avoid These 9 Biggest Mistakes When Adopting New Technologies

The Finance Weekly

Digital transformation has been a competitive norm in the world of corporate finance for years now. The development of new technologies in several industries, such as , DataRails, , PureShare Activemetrics , and , NetWrix , that have improved the pace and quality of work. However, as aware as every organization with a finance team may be of this, many have consistently made several specific mistakes in this process, which sabotages their attempted improvement.

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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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ION Treasury’s City Financials solution goes live at Trivium Packaging B.V.

ION Group

City Financials, a cloud-based system, supports Trivium Packaging’s treasury, risk management, and commodities hedging AMSTERDAM – 14 October 2021: ION. The post ION Treasury’s City Financials solution goes live at Trivium Packaging B.V. appeared first on ION.

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What Is The Most Important Number In The Universe? Our Fractional CFOs Can Help You Figure It Out

The CFO Centre

Numbers matter. Our mathematical universe is constructed of numbers. Some we can see. Most we can’t. From the speed of light to the parabolic curve of a free-kick in soccer, maths underpins the laws of the universe. We can also deconstruct our entire lives in numbers. The average human lives for around 80 years – […] The post What Is The Most Important Number In The Universe?

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Global tax reforms, pandemic supply chain pressures add uncertainty to transfer pricing functions

Future CFO

International tax reforms and supply chain transformations accelerated by the pandemic contribute to an unprecedented level of uncertainty and risk for businesses’ transfer pricing functions, said EY recently when releasing results of the 2021 EY International Tax and Transfer Pricing survey. The biennial survey canvassed the views of 979 transfer pricing professionals in 53 jurisdictions across 25 industries, according to EY, adding that transfer pricing is a critical tax function for organisat

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What Controllers Can Do to Help Leverage FP&A Solutions

The Finance Weekly

The first step any company must take to improve the results of their work is thoroughly analyzing and monitoring their progress. The development of , FP&A solutions (particularly, innovations such as financial software) in recent years has empowered many organizations to both better understand and significantly improve their performance. Although all members of a finance team play a role in the integration and use of FP&A solutions, the influence of the Financial Controller (FC) is parti

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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.