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The seven habits of programmatic acquirers

Mckinsey and Company

Our latest research shows that programmatic acquirers continue to create value from this approach to M&A and identifies the capabilities and practices these companies use to deliver their M&A strategies.

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CFOs expect inflation to settle down, optimistic on business performance in festive season

CFO News

With consumer price index (CPI) surging to 7.44 per cent in July and the central bank revising projection for inflation to 5.4 percent from 5.1 percent, inflation has shown worrying signs for business and the economy, finance head of companies are keeping eye on inflationary trends while driving growth. ETCFO brings to you how CFOs are dealing with inflation.

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Investing is the Study of Human Decision Making

Barry Ritholtz

Most people believe that investing is the science of generating a return on capital. That is an accurate but incomplete assessment. I believe it is more useful and comprehensive to define investing as the decision-making behavior of human beings as they interact with money: What their financial desires are, the risks they embrace, how they think about wealth, and what emotional pain they willingly suffer in order to generate that return on capital.

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AI in the finance function

Future CFO

Gartner says to build an AI-driven finance organisation for the future will require a combination of technical and business skills that many finance teams do not have today. Mark D. McDonald , senior director analyst in the Gartner Finance Practice , observes a profound shift in how finance teams work based on the accelerating use of AI to help them handle the increased complexity of their daily activities and become more productive.

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How Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Drive Business Results

Employees who feel listened to show a 64% longer commitment to tasks (Forbes). And that’s just for starters. Learn how emotionally intelligent leaders drive business results. Download Paycor’s guide for the full story.

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Lot of free money to burn on customers, premiumisation is the key : CFOs

CFO News

Top CFOs discuss how premiumisation, hyper personalisation and digital will shape up retail businesses further and help them ride on profitability. They said that capital is not a problem anymore, a lot of free money is available to be burnt on customers, but to acquire customers, customer satisfaction will be a key and that will only come with premiumisation and hyper personalisation.

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What is business risk?

Mckinsey and Company

An organization faces business risk when it is exposed to a situation that can lead to decreased profits or even bankruptcy.

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Why CFOs should partner with IT to drive enterprise digital transformation

CFO Dive

Finance and IT are often the stewards of enterprise transformation. How should you align for impact?

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Building and Maintaining Your Business Budget: The Essential Guide

Capital CFO LLC

Building and maintaining a solid business budget is a crucial aspect of running a successful small business or being an entrepreneur. It not only helps you stay organized and in […] The post Building and Maintaining Your Business Budget: The Essential Guide appeared first on Capital CFO+.

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Apple hits big oversold levels, now what?

The Reformed Broker

The Relative Strength Index or RSI is typically expressed as a 14-day reading to determine the degree to which a stock or an index is overbought or oversold, if at all. It was created in 1978 by J. Welles Wilder Jr. (here’s the book) who was a mechanical engineer by trade before turning his mathematical mind to stock and commodity trading, subsequently developing some of the most widely traded tools in technical ana.

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Acterys: Revolutionizing CIO & CFO Decision-Making

Welcome to the Future of Technology for CIOs & CFOs! Ever stood on the precipice of a technological revolution, feeling the energy of change? Ever been captivated by the whispers of a software that's not just innovative but genuinely groundbreaking? Acterys unveils a groundbreaking technology tailored for CIOs and CFOs. This state-of-the-art solution streamlines data integration, analytics, and forecasting, empowering leaders to make informed decisions quickly.

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How Organizations Can Best Prepare for an ERP Implementation

Navigator SAP

Enterprise resource planning solutions (ERP) dramatically improve an organization’s operational efficiency, standardization and best practices by serving as the nerve-center for an organization. But rolling out a new ERP can be tricky, because these systems touch all parts of a business and therefore implementation is a complex project.

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From poverty to empowerment: Raising the bar for sustainable and inclusive growth

Mckinsey and Company

What would it take to raise minimum living standards and get on a net-zero path in this decade? Our research explores twin ambitions for people and the planet.

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Fleetcor CFO targets M&A, sales

CFO Dive

The Atlanta-based payments player’s new CFO doesn’t believe the M&A deal pendulum has fully swung over to a buyer’s market.

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Lessons for Investors from Mini-Panics

Barry Ritholtz

The first post-pandemic presentation I pulled together for my pal Joe Fitzgerald (we worked together in the late 2000s) was a new deck titled: Biggest Mistakes Made by UHNW Investors. In the intervening year, I updated and refined the deck, adding more examples and specific advice. below is my discussion of what the presentation will be like at the MoneyShow in Orlando on October 30.

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Banking on Loyalty: Holistic Financial Advice for Unparalleled Business Growth

Speaker: Joe Buhrmann, MBA, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC® Senior Financial Planning Practice Management Consultant eMoney Advisor

During an era of evolving consumer preferences, the banking sector is undergoing a profound shift. As customers continue to broaden their perspectives, banking professionals must support their customers' financial wellness by providing holistic financial advice that aligns with individual goals and circumstances. Without adapting, financial institutions will find that loyalty may crumble amid uncertainty.

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India Inc's moonshot

CFO News

The newly created ecosystem for space startups in India has fostered the rise of companies like Skyroot Aerospace, SatSure, Dhruva Space, and Bellatrix Aerospace, positioning them as potential game-changers.

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Building a green energy ecosystem: Lessons from zolar

Mckinsey and Company

The cofounder and the managing director of Germany-based zolar discuss launching the green energy start-up to simplify the process for homeowners to buy and install solar energy systems.

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GE Vernova announces finance chief ahead of planned spin-off

CFO Dive

Kenneth Parks’ appointment as CFO is the final piece in GE Vernova’s leadership stack before the company spins off as an independent entity.

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Forget the iPhone: BlackBerry is still the one to beat

Barry Ritholtz

How little do we know about the future? A great way to figure that out is to look to our past, to see what we previously thought about what the future will hold. To wit: 26 years ago, the image above came from the cover story of Fortune magazine: “There’s a lot of buzz in the smartphone business lately, with Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone turning the mobile world upside down and Nokia’s (NOK) upcoming phone announcement providing a new challenge.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

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NFRA penalises audit firm, partner for lapses in auditing of Burnpur Cement

CFO News

The National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) has imposed fines totalling Rs 30 lakh on an audit firm and its partner for lapses in the audit of Burnpur Cement Ltd. The regulator has slapped a fine of Rs 25 lakh on the audit firm K Pandeya & Co and Rs 5 lakh on Manjeet Kumar Verma, a partner with the audit firm.

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Strategies to win in the new ecosystem economy

Mckinsey and Company

This shift from industry sectors to customer-focused ecosystems may be the largest economic reorganization in history. What role will your company play?

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Versapay CFO leans on data amid ‘perfect storm’

CFO Dive

The veteran finance leader sees his profession grappling with significant challenges, including macroeconomic pressures and the rising need to function as data experts.

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Folly of Forecasts, Big Short Edition

Barry Ritholtz

Source: Adam Khoo , Twitter A preface before we get into this: Michael Burry has proven himself to be a rare fund manager. He has a great ability to identify a variant perception versus the Wall Street consensus and express that view in a deeply researched market position. As we learned in Michael Lewis’ book The Big Short , he had the courage of his conviction to stay with his position even as lots of others opposed it.

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The Buyer’s Guide to HR & Payroll Technology

Choosing an HCM partner is one of the most important decisions you’ll make because time is one of your company’s most strategic assets. How do you want to spend your time?

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Will There Ever Be Another Warren Buffett?

The Reformed Broker

Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends. This week, Michael Batnick, Guy Spier, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss lunch with Warren Buffett, value investing, managing a hedge fund, Berkshire after Buffett, the bull case for Ferrari, and much more! You can listen to the whole thing below, or find it wherever you like to listen to your favorite pods!

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The loss ratio imperative for North American personal lines carriers

Mckinsey and Company

Macroeconomic uncertainty and continued loss pressures mean personal lines carriers must develop pricing agility through a systematic, cross-functional approach to loss ratio management.

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Advance Auto names new CEO, CFO as profits decline

CFO Dive

The leadership changes come as the company launches a “comprehensive operational and strategic review” following a weak quarter.

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10 Monday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • The Legendary, Wildly Profitable QQQ Fund Makes No Money for Its Owner : An historical artifact prevents Invesco from profiting from its flagship ETF. The company’s Q-themed offshoots are finally solving that problem. ( Businessweek ) • The New York Fed President Sees Interest Rates Coming Down With Inflation : In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, John C.

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Quick Start Guide to a Crystal Clear Close

Did you know automating your month-end close can save up to 40% of the time typically spent on manual reconciliations? CFOs and controllers are leveraging SkyStem's workflow management and reconciliation tool to eliminate costly mistakes, ditch manual reconciliations and close faster. Want to know how they do it? Download our Quick Start Guide to a Crystal Clear Close!

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Toys for Billionaires: Sports Franchises as Trophy Assets!

Musings on Markets

I have always loved sports, playing tennis and cricket when I was growing up, before transitioning to fan status, cheering for my favored teams from the sidelines. I also like finance, perhaps not as much as sports, but there are winners and losers in the investment game as well. Thus, it should come as no surprise that when the two connect, as is the case when teams are bought and sold, or players are signed, I am doubly interested.

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Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, July 2023

Mckinsey and Company

Mixed economic picture with patchy positives; consumers cautious but confidence rising; inflation in developed economies decelerates, while producer prices decline; trade volumes down.

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FIS taps Walgreens alum for CFO

CFO Dive

The Florida-based company is changing CFOs again — just a year after it was one of a flurry of payments players to swap out finance chiefs.

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