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New INX CFO urges crypto-mainstream compatibility

CFO Dive

The company's launch last year of the the first digital security token to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission serves as a blueprint for other companies that may be looking to raise capital from alternative assets.

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4 Reasons Why Enterprise Resource Planning is Critically Important

Navigator SAP

There’s a reason why 96 percent of the top 20 percent of businesses rely on enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, according to Aberdeen research. ERP is at the center of the modern digital business, the nerve-center that allows an organization to monitor, automate and manage operations end-to-end unlike what came before. Whether you are a startup or a business that has not yet embraced digital transformation, there are dozens of reasons why you should consider ERP.

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How Sharp Is the Sharpe Ratio? An Analysis of Global Stock Indices

CFA Institute

To test the Sharpe Ratio’s effectiveness, we constructed monthly return distributions for global stock market indices to see if any had too much skewness.

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How Complex Are Your Business Finances?

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No two businesses are exactly alike. Every business has unique financial needs. Suppose your company finances are complicated and include multiple entities or locations. In that case, you may be looking for more powerful real-time accounting solutions to provide you with a better view of your entire operation and help with things like taxation, HR, multiple currencies, and more.

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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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SEC pushes crackdown on COVID-19 scams

CFO Dive

Several companies have sought to cash in on public anxiety and investor eagerness by making false claims about the availability of products to combat the coronavirus.

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Extremely Successful? Extremely Lucky!

CFA Institute

What's more critical to investing success: luck or skill?

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What Are APIs and Why Are They Important to the Banking Industry?

FISPAN

Financial Application Programming Interfaces (Financial APIs) are the key to securely and efficiently exchanging consumer-permissioned data and are a catalyst for new innovations, revenue opportunities and integrations in the financial services industry.

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Most CFOs, CEOs see cybersecurity gaps: Accenture

CFO Dive

Many companies face excessive risks after failing to weave cybersecurity into the full fabric of business strategy, Accenture said.

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Will CFOs maintain enterprise digital investments if inflation persists?

Future CFO

CFOs are likely to maintain or increase enterprise digital investments in the next two years even if inflation persists, according to a Gartner survey of 199 senior finance leaders on May 13, 2022. Key findings. At the enterprise level, 46% of respondents said they are scaling up their plans of enterprise digital investments, while 32% said that no changes were planned The findings come even as CFOs indicate they are planning cost reductions in other areas of the business if inflation persists t

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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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Energy Valuation Services: Tips, Best Practices, and Insights from the Field

Embark With Us

There aren’t too many industries under a more powerful and exacting microscope than energy. Between extreme volatility in commodity prices, rising ESG tides, and a constant barrage of global headlines – mostly from surging gas prices – there isn’t much room for error in the sector. That is, if there’s any at all.

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How The Pandemic Altered the Future of the Banking Experience

FISPAN

An Executive Insight with FISPAN’s CEO Clayton Weir as he discusses how the recent COVID-19 pandemic altered the future of commercial banking by accelerating the need to eliminate manual processes which has led customers to seek digital solutions from their financial institutions.

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Inflation outlook hinges on future wage growth: Summers

CFO Dive

History suggests that with inflation and unemployment at current levels, the U.S. may be headed toward a recession, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said.

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Decarbonisation: One third of businesses missed 2020 targets

Future CFO

Almost a third of businesses globally failed to deliver against decarbonisation targets set for 2020 when it comes to ESG, said Bain & Company. . Bain’s analysis of data from CDP, a non-profit that runs the world’s largest environmental disclosure system, shows that 31% of businesses who set and published scope 1 and 2 absolute emissions reduction targets* due in 2020 did not meet them.

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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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Renewable Energy Funds: Through a Gender Lens

CFA Institute

As ESG investing continues to grow, applying a gender lens to public equity funds focused on climate solutions is critical.

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How to Create a Flexible, Agile FP&A Function

Centage

Just as content is king in the world of marketing, when it comes to financial decision-making, data is everything. Unfortunately, many of today’s small and medium-sized businesses are making choices based on tools that lack the sophistication to provide accurate, up-to-the-minute information. If you want to outsell the competition, then upgrading your financial planning and analysis (FP&A) efforts is of the utmost importance.

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Recession 'not inevitable,' Moody's says

CFO Dive

CFOs considering changes to wages, prices and other critical points of business strategy must filter an unusual range of conflicting economic forecasts.

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Jollibee appoints new CFO

Future CFO

Fast food chain Jollibee Group recently announced its appointment of Richard Shin as its new CFO. Shin has succeeded Ysmael V. Baysa who retired from the group lately. According to the company, Shin brings nearly three decades of financial and business leadership experience across multiple industries, including FMCG, retail, and aquaculture. Before joining Jollibee Group, he worked as the Group CFO and Executive Committee Member of Grobest Group Holdings Limited, a private equity company.

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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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The 5-Minute Guide to Nonprofit Finances

The Charity CFO

It’s a myth that all stakeholders need to be experts in every aspect of nonprofit finances. Even on nonprofit financial committees, some members may be skilled in accounting, others in banking, and others in investing or financial analysis. Yet all nonprofit leaders, including board members, directors, and finance committee members, should have at least a basic understanding of nonprofit finances.

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Entitlement Management Delivers Big Benefits for Companies and Their Customers

Bramasol

This new installment in our ongoing series on the Digital Solutions Economy (DSE) focuses specifically on the importance of Entitlement Management. Basically, entitlements consist of "rights" that are awarded to a customer based on a contract or other agreement. Entitlements can include a wide range of offerings, such as access to a cloud service, number of user licenses, software support, hardware maintenance services, warranties, media access rights, or usage-based consumption rights.

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Prepping for the next phase of stimulus fraud probes

CFO Dive

Federal authorities appear to be operating under a strong mandate to ferret out perceived fraud and abuse in the oft-confusing world of COVID-19 stimulus programs.

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Moody’s: Global growth forecasts slip with Russia-Ukraine war, China lockdowns

Future CFO

Global growth forecasts for 2022 and 2023 are lower as Russia's invasion of Ukraine and pandemic lockdowns in China add to supply shocks and stoke inflation, said Moody’s recently. Advanced economies will expand 2.6% in 2022 and emerging market countries will grow 3.8%, down from March forecasts of 3.2% and 4.2%, respectively, the credit rating agency pointed out.

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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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[Podcast] Building Public Support with Strategic Communication Campaigns with Houda Elyazgi

The Charity CFO

How intentional is your nonprofit with your communication plans? Is there a strategy behind the image your organization is presenting to the world? Houda Elyazgi joins A Modern Nonprofit to talk about building integrated and strategic communication campaigns to help build momentum and get public support for your most important initiatives. Houda Elyazgi is the Chief Client Officer at Saxum, an integrated digital agency obsessed for good.

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Benefits of Fractional HR Leadership

VCFO

This article was co-authored by Teresa Foltz , vcfo Houston Senior People Operations/ HR Consultant, and Paul Hagerty , vcfo Dallas Senior People Operations/ HR Consultant. Outsourcing HR – 8 Benefits of Virtual or Fractional HR Leadership. Employees have always been a company’s most important asset, but the events of recent years have driven that point home in a bigger way than ever.

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May notches lowest job gains since pandemic recovery: ADP

CFO Dive

ADP reported nonfarm private sector employmers added 128,000 jobs in May, marking the lowest gains since the start of pandemic recovery and potentially indicating a modest decline in unemployment figures.

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To sound like a leader, think about what you say, and how and when you say it

Future CFO

The “executive voice” is less about performance and more about strategic instincts and being aware of the signals you send in daily interactions and communications. The post To sound like a leader, think about what you say, and how and when you say it appeared first on FutureCFO.

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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.