CFO Dive

JULY 8, 2024

CFOs need to be cautious posting personal material on social accounts, as such information can be used to build deepfakes.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 10, 2024

Investing Is Hard with Brian Portnoy (July 10, 2024) Why is investing so hard? It’s because our brains have been trained, over thousands of years, to trust our fear instincts. In this episode, I speak with Brian Portnoy sits down with Barry Ritholtz to explain why humans aren’t built to be good investors. Portnoy has held senior investment roles throughout the hedge fund and mutual fund industries.

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Future CFO

JULY 8, 2024

Editor’s note: Audit is much more than a compliance requirement and is definitely not a declining industry, said Narissa Chen (pictured), Partner, Head of Audit & Assurance, Forvis Mazars in Singapore. She shared with FutureCFO what a career in audit offers and how female professionals can become audit leaders. The interview is part of the Female Leadership in Finance Series.

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Tips Watch

JULY 11, 2024

For the markets and the Fed, June’s inflation report was positive news. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com As soon as I arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, this afternoon, I began looking for news on the June inflation report.

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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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E78 Partners

JULY 11, 2024

The recent RockYou2024 password leak has caused much concern, affecting millions of users worldwide. A massive collection of over 10 billion plaintext passwords was leaked on the Dark Web over the 4th of July weekend, raising questions about online security. What is RockYou2024? RockYou2024 is named after RockYou, a social media company that experienced a similar breach in 2009, which exposed 32 million passwords.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 10, 2024

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), passed in 2017, was one of the most extensive pieces of tax legislation to be passed in the last 30 years, touching many aspects of individual, corporate, and estate tax. However, most of TCJA's provisions are set to 'sunset' at the end of 2025 – an event that would have at least as much impact as TCJA's initial passage.

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Fox Corporate Finance

JULY 9, 2024

FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH is delighted to publish the new “FCF Healthcare & Life Sciences Venture Capital Monitor – USA – 06/2024”. The Monitor is a monthly published overview of venture capital trends in. Read more The post FCF Healthcare & Life Sciences Venture Capital Monitor – USA – 06/2024 published appeared first on FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH.

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The Charity CFO

JULY 12, 2024

The type of accounting your organization uses could be holding you back from getting the most out of your accounting system. While many nonprofits start with cash-basis accounting due to its simplicity, this method often falls short of providing a comprehensive view of a nonprofit’s financial health. Transitioning to accrual-basis accounting can offer a more accurate representation of finances and enhance long-term planning.

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Beacon CFO Plus

JULY 8, 2024

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Career Guide: Becoming a Fractional CFO appeared first on BeaconCFO Plus.

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CFO Dive

JULY 10, 2024

A decline in the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure to 2.6% has prompted policymakers to focus more on the cooling job market, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said.

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Navigator SAP

JULY 12, 2024

What do Coca-Cola drinks, Skull Candy headphones, Rothy’s shoes, uni-ball pens and Harry’s shaving supplies all have in common? The companies behind these products all rely on ERP software for the development, manufacturing, distribution and sales of their popular consumer products.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 7, 2024

@TBPInvictus here If you’re tired of California-minimum-wage-and-its-impact-on-limited-service-restaurant-employment stories, I understand. Leave this page immediately. I’m tired of it, too, but some stories are so factually challenged that they demand a response. So, allow me to address a hot mess of a story that appeared recently in the California Globe.

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Global Finance

JULY 9, 2024

Can a new wave of FDI help Egypt to diversify and modernize its economy? At a bilateral investment conference in Cairo on July 1, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that European companies were signing deals for more than $43 billion with Egyptian companies “ranging from hydrogen to water management, from construction to chemicals, from shipping to aviation and to automotive.

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CFO Dive

JULY 12, 2024

The latest CashPro platform update is designed to better address transaction-related inquiries — one of the top reasons business customers call and email the bank.

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Future CFO

JULY 11, 2024

Imtiaz Ahmad FCCA speaks from his years of experience about how different technologies have changed accounting , and the benefits of artificial intelligence in his own practice. ACCA UK’s Head of Technology Alistair Brisbourne , PhD talks on ACCA’s ‘AI in the Finance Profession’ report, including surveys on the concerns of current ACCA students and members, and describes the ways in which he believes AI is going to affect the roles of accountants within organisations in years to come.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 9, 2024

A quick break from book duty and doing our quarterly client call to share this fascinating discussion from tennis great Roger Federer: “In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches… What percentage of the POINTS do you think I won in those matches? Only 54%.” -Roger Federer This is one of those great commencement addresses that will only gain stature over time.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 9, 2024

Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 393rd episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Alex Lewis. Alex is the owner of Blackbridge Financial, a hybrid advisory firm based in Irmo, South Carolina, that oversees approximately $330 million in assets under management for 415 client households. What's unique about Alex, though, is how, at age 29, he took on a multi-million-dollar loan to purchase the firm from its founder as his successor, and, in the 4 years since,

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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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CFO Dive

JULY 11, 2024

Revenue generation has overtaken productivity as C-suite leaders’ primary return-on-investment metric for generative AI spending, KPMG found.

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CFO News

JULY 12, 2024

About a dozen such alternative investment funds (AIFs) have recently received notices, with the revenue department questioning why their schemes, housing the fund pools, are not registered under GST. These funds raise huge money every year and bankroll thousands of startups and listed companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 6, 2024

Source: New York Times The NYT: The final votes in Britain’s parliamentary elections are still being counted, but one thing is crystal clear: After 14 years in power, the Conservative Party is out. More than that: It’s been thoroughly punished by the British public, reduced to barely 120 seats, the party’s worst result in its history. Several prominent figures — including former Prime Minister Liz Truss — lost their seats.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 8, 2024

After several turbulent years in both markets and workforces, 2024 appears to be the 'most normal' year of late, with strong market performance, cooling (or at least no longer rising!?) interest rates, and relatively little new tax legislation (yet). Yet the need for advisor education – and the regulatory requirements to get it (in the form of Continuing Education obligations) – never ends, with the latest focus for most financial advisors being on the ongoing expansion of NASAA's 20

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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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CFO Dive

JULY 8, 2024

The May theft of over $300 million worth of bitcoin from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin is the largest digital currency heist so far this year.

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CFO News

JULY 12, 2024

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday that while 12.5 crore jobs have been created in the Indian economy during the last 10 years only 2.9 crore jobs were created in the 10 years before 2014.

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Bank of the West

JULY 11, 2024

At BMO we’re always looking for ways to improve the customer experience for our clients. And that work is getting recognized; we’re the first bank in Canada and the U.S.… Read more The post BMO’s Online Banking for Business Design Concept Wins 2024 Red Dot Award appeared first on About BMO.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 12, 2024

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that at a time when employee retention has heightened importance for advisory firms given the ongoing competition for advisor talent, recent studies indicate that factors such as firm culture and leadership, as well as providing advisors with a sense of autonomy, can play important roles in building advisor loyalty to the firm.

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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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