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How to Prepare Your Finance Team for Growth 

CFO Talks

How to Prepare Your Finance Team for Growth One of your most important roles is to nurture and develop your finance team. After all, a strong and adaptable team is key to achieving long-term success in a competitive business environment. Preparing your finance team for growth is not just about giving them new tasks; its about equipping them with the skills, mindset, and tools to thrive in a changing world.

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Finance AI Chatbots for Businesses

The Finance Weekly

Finance Artificial Intelligence (A)I chatbots are reshaping how businesses handle customer interactions and streamline financial operations. According to Gartner , chatbots and virtual assistants are changing the game for how businesses handle customer questions. More and more companies are turning to these tools, and by 2027, theyre expected to become the go-to option for customer service.

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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Intelligent ERP 2025 Predictions Summary

Navigator SAP

The IDC FutureScape report highlights key trends and predictions shaping the future of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise application technologies. The document emphasizes how AI, particularly Generative AI (GenAI), is transforming business operations and enabling a shift toward more automated and efficient workflows. The main predictions and drivers provide a roadmap for organizations aiming to modernize their systems, optimize processes, and maintain competitiveness in a data-dr

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GenAI: When not to use?

Future CFO

As the business world swirls around the hype that is generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), it is important finance leaders take a look on when not to indulge. Leinar Ramos , senior director analyst at Gartner, Inc., whose work focuses on artificial intelligence, explains that generative AI is not the silver bullet it is often made out to be. While indeed game-changing, GenAI is only one aspect of a much larger and more fruitful AI landscape.

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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

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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Mastering Financial Planning for Solopreneurs: First-Time Hiring Tips

CFO Plans

Transitioning from a solopreneur to a business owner with employees is an exhilarating journey that marks a significant milestone in your entrepreneurial path. As you prepare to make your first hire, you’re not just adding a team member; you’re inviting new financial dynamics and opportunities for scalable business growth. To navigate this transition smoothly, you’ll need to focus on financial planning for solopreneurs, ensuring that your business is financially poised to embra

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Big 4 in India outshine MNC parents; combined revenue seen at over Rs 45,000 crore in FY25

CFO News

The Indian arms of Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG showed strong revenue growth in FY24, driven by consulting and tech services, with combined revenue reaching nearly Rs 38,800 crore, and are expected to surpass Rs 45,000 crore by FY25. This growth has been fueled by high demand from mid-market clients and government services, despite slower growth due to economic uncertainties.

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At the Money: Matt Hougan on Crypto Technology

Barry Ritholtz

SPOTIFY EMBED St. Vincent – Digital Witness [link] Digital witnesses, what’s the point of even sleeping? If I can’t show it, if you can’t see me What’s the point of doing anything? This is no time for confessing At The Money: with Matt Hougan on Crypto Technology (January 8, 2025) Are you crypto-curious? Are you interested in owning some bitcoin, Ethereum, or other crypto-coins?

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BEA China Redefines Wealth Management

Global Finance

Incorporated in Hong Kong in 1918, BEA is a leading global bank listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, and operates one of the largest local branch networks. In the Chinese Mainland, BEAs presence dates back to the opening of the Banks Shanghai branch in 1920. BEA has an extensive network of approximately 130 outlets in China, Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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A great mystery: I Bond buying guide for 2025

Tips Watch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com I’m a big fan of all those Agatha Christie Poirot books, Sherlock Holmes, Philip Marlow, every episode of Columbo on TV. But even those great detectives would have a hard time figuring out TreasuryDirect.

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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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Cyberattacks, tech disruption ranked as top threats to business growth

CFO Dive

Forty percent of executives view data breaches and leaks as the most financially burdensome man-made threats, a Chubb study found.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

For the last four decades, I have spent the first week of each year collecting and analyzing data on publicly traded companies and sharing what I find with anyone who is interested. It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them.

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The SAP Supplier Portal and How it Helps

Navigator SAP

Wouldnt it be great if there was an easier way to manage supplier relationships? For businesses that use SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition , there is: The SAP Supplier Portal. Keep reading to learn more about this SAP extension and why businesses with supplier relationships should be using it.

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Kitces & Carl Ep 155: How Do You Know You Are Adding Value Versus Just Trying To Justify Your Fees?

Nerd's Eye View

While financial advisors offer valuable services for their clients, it can sometimes be challenging to gauge how much clients actually value those services. On one hand, a client's willingness to pay an ongoing fee for financial advice suggests that they find the advisor's services worthwhile. On the other hand, the term "financial advice" often refers to much more than asset allocation and wealth management.

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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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Walking a tightrope: 6 CFO trends for 2025

CFO Dive

Financial executives can gain an edge in 2025 by monitoring six trends in federal policy and business strategy.

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How is AI Going to Affect Accounting and Finance Teams?

CFO Selections

These days were hearing a lot of clients ask, How is AI going to affect my business? Unfortunately, theres a lot of fear mongering going around related to AI based on largely unfounded concerns. Theres an uneducated belief that AI could steal jobs away from skilled professionals across various business facets like accounting and finance. However, this is simply untrue!

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1061: Innovate, Scale, Repeat: A CFO’s Blueprint for Rapid Expansion | Kfir Lippmann, CFO, Salt Security

CFO Thought Leader

CFO Kfir Lippmann began his career at Ernst & Young in Tel Aviv, auditing high-growth tech clients and navigating the intricacies of IPO-bound businesses. The experience gave him a deep understanding of strategic finance early on, Lippmann tells us. Later, he joined Monday.com when it was still a small startup, helping scale the organization through multiple investment rounds and significant secondary transactions.

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#FASuccess Ep 419: Attracting Clients Who Want To Align Their Investments With Their Values With A Sustainable Investing Approach, With Peter Krull

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 419th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Peter Krull. Pete is the Director of Sustainable Investing of Earth Equity Advisors, an RIA based in Asheville, North Carolina, that oversees approximately $200 million in assets under management for 250 client households. What's unique about Pete, though, is how he has grown his firm by exploring with clients how they can align their portfolios with their own personal values,

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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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Ohio gov signs alternative CPA licensure pathway bill into law

CFO Dive

The move puts the Buckeye state at the forefront of the recent drive to address the talent shortage by widening on-ramps into the accounting profession.

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Unlocking IPO Success in 2025: Trends, Challenges, and Insights

E78 Partners

As 2025 approaches, the equity capital markets are gearing up for a notable acceleration in IPO activity. Economic shifts, technological innovation, and evolving investor strategies are creating a dynamic environment for companies considering going public. While the opportunities are vast, the path to a successful IPO is complex and requires careful preparation.

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TreasuryDirect is sending out a survey on the savings bond gift-box. Here are the details.

Tips Watch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (January 11–12)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that the "Social Security Fairness Act" was signed into law this week, eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) provisions, which previously reduced the Social Security benefits of individuals who worked in both "covered" (jobs for which they paid into the Social Security system) and "non-covered" (those in which they didn't,

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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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Key FinOps trends for CFOs to watch in 2025

CFO Dive

FinOps has traditionally been about cost cutting, but 2025 will mark a shift toward driving greater value and performance, writes Presidio’s Dan O’Brien.

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Riding the Waves of Change: How CFOs Can Steer Business Success

CFO Talks

Riding the Waves of Change: How CFOs Can Steer Business Success The world of business is rarely predictable. Economic changes, whether due to inflation, global disruptions, or evolving consumer behavior, require businesses to be agile and adaptable. As CFOs, you are at the helm of navigating these changes. The right strategies can mean the difference between thriving and merely surviving.

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Ep 42: From Misaligned Commissions to Unified Goals

CFO Thought Leader

In our latest Planning Aces episode, Jack Sweeney teams with performance management guru Brett Knowles to spotlight three finance leaders tackling one of businesss most critical challenges: aligning sales, operations, and finance around a common goal. First, Orion Innovation CFO Cyrus Lam recalls how transparent metrics and well-crafted incentives helped double profit margins by bridging the gap between sales and delivery teams.

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Orion Acquires Summit Wealth Systems To Become Its Next-Generation All-In-One Portal (And More Of The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech – January 2025)

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome to the January 2025 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors! This month's edition kicks off with the news that Orion, the "all-in-one" advisor technology platform, has acquired Summit Wealth Systems (and its founder Reed Colley, who previously built performance reporting platform Black Diamond), a client port

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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.