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Why CFOs could unlock economic growth

CFO Talks

Written by Staff Writer Nicolaas van Wyk recently spoke on a #CFOClubConvo webinar about the project he is spearheading with the Gauteng MEC for Finance Jacob Mamabolo to boost collaboration between the public sector and private sector CFOs to grow Gauteng’s economy. Finding enlightenment in Indian While attending last year’s International Federation of Accountants conference in India, Nicolaas van Wyk, CIBA’s CEO, came across an enlightening idea.

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Navigating Volatile Markets: Strategies for Successful Investment Analysis

Financial Analyst Insider

The world of investing is characterized by its exhilarating highs and heart-wrenching lows. While the potential for substantial gains is alluring, the volatile nature of The post Navigating Volatile Markets: Strategies for Successful Investment Analysis appeared first on Financial Analyst Insider.

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Tips for Success: The Role of Profitability Analysis and Improving Profit Margins

Centage

The current economic climate is causing profound challenges for business owners across industries. Not only is inflation on the rise, but increased costs associated with food and housing mean that buyers everywhere are feeling the strain. With more shoppers prioritizing necessities, businesses increasingly have to make adjustments to stay in the black.

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Exposing the Path to Profitability | Matt Gustke, CFO, WooCommerce

CFO Thought Leader

MADE POSSIBLE BY PLANFUL | Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful empowers finance, accounting, and business users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. www.planful.com The post Exposing the Path to Profitability | Matt Gustke, CFO, WooComme

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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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SEC cyber rules go into effect, raising stakes for CFOs

CFO Dive

Armed with its new rules that expand on prior guidance, the regulator could be poised to double down on aggressive cybersecurity enforcement, experts say.

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FASB finalizes new fair value crypto accounting

CFO Dive

Many crypto companies have clamored for the fair value fix, which won't apply to such assets as NFTs.

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FASB raises tax transparency bar

CFO Dive

The third time turned out to be the charm for the FASB’s standards update that will require companies to disclose more tax information.

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Vinfast Lists On The Nasdaq

Global Finance

VinFast, founded in 2017 by VinGroup chair and Vietnamese billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong, became more valuable than legacy automakers such as Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari.

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How Advisors Can Help (Not-So HNW) Clients Maximize Asset Protection By Assessing Strategies, Tools, And Education

Nerd's Eye View

Financial advisory clients are routinely concerned about lurking threats to their hard-earned wealth in the form of a large unforeseen judgment on a liability claim. While asset protection is a popular planning topic for High-Net-Worth (HNW) and ultra-high-net-worth clients, those who are not HNW are susceptible to the same threats to wealth. However, while some protection options come with a high cost (that might not be practical for non-HNW clients), asset protection can come in many forms, so

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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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How to Tell If You Need a New ERP Support Partner

Navigator SAP

ERP is supposed to solve operational problems and make a business more efficient. But that’s only the case if your ERP solution is configured correctly and modified as needs change. “If you implement correctly,” says Christopher Beck, the former global head of IT as shaving product supply company, Harry’s, “an ERP can free up your time from manual tasks so you can perform more value-added work.

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CFOs are ‘squarely’ in ERP decision process, Deloitte’s Farhat says

CFO Dive

Transformation is a key way for CFOs to cut costs and boost profit, but finance chiefs need to keep compliance front and center, Deloitte’s Isa Farhat advises.

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Project Finance: Beware Interest Rate Miscalculations

CFA Institute

Muadh Alhusaini, CFA, FRM, CAIA, is a co-founder and managing partner at Ehata Financial, a specialized independent advisory house focused on market risk management and hedging. Before pursuing the advisory career, Alhusaini spent nearly 10 years as a senior banker in the global markets and financing solutions with local and international banks. In his current role, he demonstrated the ability to mobilize robust, innovative financial risk-management solutions to top-tier corporations, sovereign

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Nobody Knows Anything, John Wick edition

Barry Ritholtz

 In 2016, I wrote about the novelist and screenwriter William Goldman, and his delightful book, “ Adventures in the Screen Trade.” He is the Academy award-winning scriptwriter who penned such classics as “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969), “All the President’s Men” (1976), “Marathon Man” (1974), and the cult-favorite “The Princess Bride (1973).

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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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If joint audit is to be brought in, there should be complete clarity on auditors’ responsibilities: NFRA Chair

CFO News

Users of financial statements should have a clear-cut view about which auditor is behind that assertion which is true and fair, Ajay Bhushan Pandey tells ET CFO.

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United Airlines CFO downplays potential Denver HQ move

CFO Dive

Losing United would be another blow to Chicago’s economy and commercial real estate market, which saw Boeing and Citadel pull up stakes last year.

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Book Review: The Economics of the Stock Market

CFA Institute

Now, more than ever, we urgently need a comprehensive alternative to the neoclassical model of stock market behavior. Andrew Smithers attempts to fill in this gap.

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FRP Corporate Finance advises on Go Plastic Pallets sale

Accountancy Today

FRP Corporate Finance has advised UK’s leading independent supplier of plastic pallets, Go Plastic Pallets, on its sale to Dutch based products and logistics services provider, Rotom Group. East Sussex-based Goplasticpallets.com is an independent supplier of plastic pallets, plastic pallet boxes and plastic containers. Founded in 2001, by co-founder’s Jim Hardisty and Chris Adam, the business is a team of experts who have over 160 years of experience within the logistics industry.

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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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Uday Kotak resignation: What finance leaders and governance experts say

CFO News

Uday Kotak: CFOs laud the veteran banker for his entrepreneurship, visionary leadership, and best banking and corporate governance practices.

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Women executives may reach leadership parity by 2030: S&P

CFO Dive

Despite recent advances, women worldwide are unlikely to attain gender parity throughout the labor force for several decades, according to some research.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (September 9-10)

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 SEC this week issued a risk alert outlining how it selects firms to examine, the areas it focuses on during exams, and how it chooses which firm documents to request, details that could ultimately help firms be better prepared for their next exam and make it a shorter, less painful process!

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CFOs Are Changing Roles More Than Ever

Global Finance

Global Finance Magazine - The job market for CFOs is heating up and driving higher rates of turnover globally.

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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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G20 Summit 2023: CFOs eye outcomes on tax reforms, carbon emissions, trade disputes

CFO News

In order to sense what the CFOs are anticipating from the mega economic event, ETCFO interacted with a few of them dealing in consumer electricals, infrastructure, commodities, and energy equipment.

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Paradigm CFO, general counsel to depart in crypto shakeup: reports

CFO Dive

The two executives are reportedly departing as the regulatory attention tightens on the cryptocurrency space, with Paradigm chiding the SEC for growing “regulatory ambition.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (September 2023)

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome to the September 2023 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 WiserAdvisor, one of the longest-running lead generation services in the industry, has acquired IndyFin, a startup advisor rating platform that had aspired to be the 'Yelp for Advisors' – whi

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CFO Corner: Brian Johnson CFO MoneyGram

Global Finance

Brian Johnson recently stepped down as CFO of MoneyGram, a Dallas-based cash transferring company that operates in 200-plus countries and territories. He met with Global Finance shortly before resigning. The following remarks are edited for length.

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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.