CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Are you a lease accountant navigating 2024? We dive into the trends that have shaped the year, from interest rate volatility to ESG disclosures & the accountant shortage.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The business model of many financial advisory firms revolves around serving clients who are able to pay a certain minimum in annual advisory fees, which reflects not only the value that the advisor can provide for the client, but also the amount that the advisor must charge in order to provide the level of deep planning and investment management that higher-net-worth clients expect (while also earning enough profit to make the venture worthwhile).

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At the Money: Can You Have Too Much Money? Brian Portnoy, Shaping Wealth (September 18, 2024) Can money buy you happiness? How much money is too much? Does wealth offer diminishing returns? In this edition of At the Money, I sit down with Brian Portnoy to explore these questions. Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Brian Portnoy is founder and CEO of Shaping Wealth , which helps advisors and their clients to achieve “funded contentment,” and operates as an outsourced Chief Beha

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cost-Effective Strategies for Maximizing Capital Employed As a CFO, one of the critical tasks is to ensure that capital employed in your business is used efficiently to generate the highest possible returns. Maximizing capital employed doesn’t always require hefty investments; instead, you can use cost-effective strategies to ensure that every rand works hard for the company.

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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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The Finance Weekly

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Sixty-four percent of tech companies pivot towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline operations. Tech giants like Apple, IBM, Cisco, Dell, and Intel were among the 48 companies that announced a whopping 26,024 job cuts. Over 400 tech companies have made similar announcements, affecting more than 130,000 workers, with January having the highest count of job cuts at 34,107.

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CFO News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Deloitte reported a $67.2 billion global revenue for FY2024, marking a 3.1% increase. With notable growth in Tax & Legal and a strategic FY2025 restructure, the firm targets enhanced integrated solutions and tech-driven transformation.

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The Charity CFO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

With a focus on the concept of collaborative funding, Tosha is joined today by the Executive Director of Young Futures , Katya Hancock. Young Futures is a 501c(3) organization with a mission to make it easier to grow up in the digital world. The organization focuses on young persons aged 10 -19, where they believe young people should still feel hopeful and optimistic about their futures.

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Tips Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com First off, let’s point out that the Federal Reserve has not yet lowered interest rates by a single basis point and, in fact, the federal funds rate has been stable since July 2023.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The valuation of the largest companies in the world fluctuates day to day, even minute by minute, but true success is a marathon, not a sprint. You heard the news: propelled by the AI frenzy, the chipmaker Nvidia passed the $3 trillion market cap and became the most valuable company in the world by market capitalization—for a few days last June, that is.

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CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Finance chiefs are “uniquely positioned” to take point on AI’s adoption ahead of its coming strategic impact, Thomson Reuters’ interim head of data and analytics said.

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Navigator SAP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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CFA Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

By minimizing exposure to severe market downturns, investors can achieve higher risk-adjusted returns, preserve capital, and avoid the psychological toll of significant losses.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The big story on Wednesday, September 18, was that the Federal Reserve’s open market committee finally got around to “cutting rates”, and doing so by more than expected. This action, much debated and discussed during all of 2024, was greeted as "big" news, and market prognosticators argued that it was a harbinger of market moves, both in interest rates and stock prices.

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CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

There is a “widening gap” between how executives and employees think about their workplace environments that needs to be taken into account, the report warned.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Marty’s Zweig’s Trading rules 1) The trend is your friend; don’t fight the tape hard return; 2) Let profits run take losses quickly; 3) If you buy for a reason and that reason if discounted or is no longer valid then sell 4) if the values don’t make sense then don’t participate (2 + 2 = 4) 5) The cheap get cheaper the deer get deer; 6) Don’t fight the Fed (less valid than #1); 7) Every indicator eventually bites the dust; 8) Adapt to change; 9) Don’t let your

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CFA Institute

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Lukasz Pomorski adeptly discusses the good, the bad, and the unknown of sustainable investing while acknowledging that the answer to some of the critical questions is the dreaded “it depends.

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Tips Watch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Too often, the bond market tricks you. It happened again Thursday in the wake of Wednesday’s “sort-of surprise” action by the Federal Reserve to cut short-term interest rates by 50 basis points.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Heightened pressure to deliver strategy could push CFOs to adopt GenAI faster than previous technologies, Billtrust CEO Sunil Rajasekar said.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Global full-cycle verification provider Sumsub received full regulatory compliance approval for its non-doc identity verification solution following a regulatory-led audit conducted by FINTRAIL, a global-consultancy specialising in financial crime risk management and regulatory compliance. The company is set to expand its Non-Doc Verification solution into 10 additional markets, including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, and the UAE.

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CFA Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Rapid yen appreciation in the third quarter triggered a brief-but-disruptive volatility surge across major asset markets, demonstrating the fleeting nature of "liquidity-on-loan.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) released the latest edition its annual survey outlining the state of state-registered RIAs, showing that the number of state-registered firms and their assets declined slightly in 2023 (perhaps due to many firms seeing their AUM hit the $100 million mark amidst strong market performance and organic grow

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The accounting associations are seeking public comment on an alternative route to getting a CPA license that doesn’t require a fifth year of college.

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CFO Share

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The federal reserve will lower interest rates , ending a three-year strategy to stamp out inflation. During that time, I’ve seen startups turn to zombies as they failed to raise VC funding, growth stumble as digital marketing turned upside-down, and small businesses struggle to pass price increases onto customers. I’ve also seen dozens of our clients seize the opportunity a high-interest environment creates to differentiate their products, focus on their core, and deepen their competitive

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Now THAT’S a financial conference! If you are reading this on the 19th, I may be still asleep. I am writing this on my flight home, scheduled to land at midnight Wednesday; I was alcohol-free all week (ok, one Mexican lager Tuesday afternoon at my RWM-crew pool swim after the Animal Spirits Live !), and while I feel pretty good, its been a long week.

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In the nearly 2 years since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been an explosion of new technology solutions incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI). Today, AI is now almost ubiquitous across many of the tools that we use, from smartphone cameras to search engines to office productivity software. For financial advisors, too, a ballooning number of new advisor-focused AI tools has appeared over the last 24 months, purporting to save advisors' time and staffing needs by automatically performing p

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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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