Cube Software

MAY 3, 2023

What is budget variance analysis? Budget variance analysis is a fancy term for when management compares a company’s budget to what was actually spent.

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Global Finance

MAY 2, 2023

Many startups were unable to access their funds during SVB's demise in part because they lacked CFOs.

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CFO Dive

MAY 1, 2023

Generative AI improved customer service at a Fortune 500 company by prompting less experienced staff to adopt the best practices of their most talented co-workers.

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Navigator SAP

MAY 2, 2023

Equipping your business with the right tools can help you stay ahead of the competition—even if you operate in a highly saturated industry like professional services.

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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

Accounting Firms

CFO Dive

MAY 2, 2023

AI’s share of overall software spending across the Vertice network grew to 1% by the end of March, up from 0.2% at the start of the year, a five-fold increase.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 1, 2023

I have been a reader of Jamie Catherwood’s Investor Amnesia since it launched. It is always filled with interesting reminders from the past. Investor Amnesia is a wonderful reminder that we tend to forget that which came before. Ray Dalio put it even more starkly, noting that nothing is truly unprecedented , and we tend to use that word to refer to those things we have not experienced in our lifetimes.

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CFO Dive

MAY 1, 2023

Many finance leaders now have a “quick-trigger game plan in place should another domino fall,” according to Jack McCullough, founder and president of the CFO Leadership Council.

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Navigator SAP

MAY 5, 2023

As a manager or an executive at a professional services firm, have you asked yourself any of these questions in the past year?

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CFA Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Mark J. Higgins, CFA, CFP, serves as a senior vice president for IFA Institutional where he specializes in providing advisory services to institutional plans, such as endowments, foundations, pension plans, defined contribution plans, and various corporate plans. In this role, he leverages more than 14 years of relevant experience consulting for both small and multi-billion-dollar plans.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 5, 2023

Imagine you had a device that allowed you to peer into the future. You enter a subject matter into this machine, requesting a specific quantitative measure, and at a specific future time. In other words, Price and Date. The machine whirrs and spins, lights flash, bells ring, and out pops a chart showing a range of answers and their probabilities. You might imagine a machine like that would be worth a lot.

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CFO Dive

MAY 2, 2023

Cybersecurity experts say it may be a long while before ChatGPT can be trusted to handle sensitive business data, despite recent steps by the popular AI tool’s creator.

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The Reformed Broker

APRIL 29, 2023

And if you haven’t subscribed yet, don’t wait. Check it out below or wherever fine podcasts are played. . The post This Week on TRB appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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Navigator SAP

MAY 4, 2023

To thrive in today’s increasingly complex and competitive business environment, professional service companies must implement systems that allow them to easily automate, streamline, and scale business processes.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 4, 2023

I have been writing about issues with the minimum wage for (it seems like) decades. During that time, consuming lots of academic research, I reached a few logically supported conclusions. The least contentious of which is that modest increases in minimum wages increase economic activity and create jobs. But there are other surprises around the minimum wage.

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CFO Dive

MAY 2, 2023

The U.S. office vacancy rate ticked up to a 30-year-high of 17.8% in the first quarter as hybrid work and recession fears weighed on demand, according to CBRE.

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The Reformed Broker

MAY 2, 2023

Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Uber Earnings – “Based on data from Bloomberg, 262 companies in the $spx have reported, sales growth in 1Q is 4% and earnings growth is -2.69%” ►Cap Weighted Rules – “It’s rare for t.

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Navigator SAP

APRIL 30, 2023

Imagine being able to manage your projects, finances, and resources all from one system. With an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, you can do just that.

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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.

Accounting

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 5, 2023

My end-of-week morning NFP train WFH reads: • Warren Buffett’s Formula for Success: One Good Decision Every Five Years : Berkshire Hathaway has obliterated the market in his 58 years at the company. He credits roughly 12 decisions. ( Wall Street Journal ) see also The 10 Greatest US Investors and the Virtues That Made Them : There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.

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CFO Dive

MAY 5, 2023

To solve the accounting shortage, Bean CEO Anees Pretorius asserts the industry must provide talented professionals with the tools and flexibility they need to do better work more quickly — and to make it more delightful.

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Global Finance

MAY 3, 2023

After disrupting most of the tech and digital world over the past few decades, Apple is now turning to the banking sector. The Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker recently teamed up with Goldman Sachs to launch a high-yield savings account, promising.

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CFO News

MAY 5, 2023

Jugeshinder Singh is banking big on investments around green hydrogen ecosystem, airport management, roads, data centre, and primary industry like copper and petrochem.

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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.

Finance

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 3, 2023

At least they told us what they were going to do. As much as critics of the Federal Reserve have been up in arms over the fastest rate hiking cycle in modern history, no one can claim it to be a surprise. Jerome Powell & Co. have continually warned that they are aggressively fighting inflation with a 5% target. They said it in Fed minutes, they said it in pressers, they said it in speeches; we just took them figuratively, not literally.

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CFO Dive

MAY 3, 2023

The appointment of Markus Neubrand, a former CFO of Hugo Boss Americas, follows a “rigorous” search process, Guess CEO Carlos Alberini said.

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Global Finance

MAY 3, 2023

Ping An Insurance of China, one of the world’s biggest insurers and a major HSBC stakeholder, has been pushing for a break-up of the Group’s Asian and UK operations.

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CFO News

MAY 2, 2023

A World Economic Forum Chief Economist Outlook report said India is among the countries including Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey and Poland which stand to gain from the ongoing supply chain changes, India's supply chain was heavily disrupted by Covid-19 restrictions and geopolitical situations in Ukraine in the last two years.

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Economics 105

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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