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CFO stressors: four cures for inflation fever

CFO Dive

CFOs have seized on ways to shield profits against the worst price pressures in nearly 40 years.

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3 Must-Know Dark Social Finance Communities

The Finance Weekly

CFOs are no longer turning to the same old sources of inspiration when looking for quick solutions to workplace challenges. Finance directors in the past may have been persuaded to purchase software by clever advertising efforts or information they acquired at a CFO conference on the other side of the globe. Decision-making CFOs are now looking to something completely different for quick solutions to queries about people, processes, or technology.

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4 Basic Elements of an Effective Accounting System

Financial Analyst Insider

An accounting system can help you track your income and expenses, so that you can make informed decisions about where to allocate your resources. It. The post 4 Basic Elements of an Effective Accounting System appeared first on Financial Analyst Insider.

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Liquidity and Bankruptcy

Essentials of Corporate Finance

As investors have learned, like any other investment, cryptocurrency is subject to volatility. The recent bankruptcy filing of crypto exchange FTX shows, this volatility can be extreme. For example, the Ontario Teachers' Pension plan wrote down $95 million due to the collapse. As you probably know, bankruptcy occurs when liabilities are greater than assets.

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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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Congruex taps Lumen Tech alum as new CFO

CFO Dive

Lumen Technologies alum Neel Dev will become CFO as Andy Carlson moves to a newly created role focusing on M&A, Congruex announced.

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What Is SAP S/4HANA Cloud?

Navigator SAP

When looking at ERP systems offered by market leader, SAP, you’ve probably run across names such as S/4HANA, Business One and Business ByDesign. But what’s the difference?

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Which is Worse: Inflation or Unemployment?

Barry Ritholtz

You may have missed this wonderful Josh Zumbrun column in the Wall Street Journal last week: “ Inflation and Unemployment Both Make You Miserable, but Maybe Not Equally.”. It’s one of those things that are so obvious no one ever stops to think about it – and so we have overlooked this for decades. 1. Stop for a moment and consider the original Misery Index formula as invented by the economist Arthur Okun : add the 3.7% unemployment rate ( BLS NFP ) to the 7.7% inflation rate as measured by the c

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AICPA seeks to ease talent ‘crunch’

CFO Dive

The Registered Apprenticeship for Finance Business Partners Program aims to help CFOs by expanding the pool of talent available for long-term employment.

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Does Influencer Marketing Really Pay Off?

CFO News Room

In 2022, the influencer industry reached $16.4 billion. More than 75% of brands have a dedicated budget for influencer marketing, from Coca Cola’s #ThisOnesFor campaign in collaboration with fashion and travel influencers, to Dior’s award-winning 67 Shades campaign in which the brand partnered with diverse influencers to promote its Forever Foundation product line.

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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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Distribution ERP Implementation Steps

Navigator SAP

An ERP, short for Enterprise Resource Planning, is a software solution designed to help you manage your business. A distribution-specific ERP is one of the modules in the ERP system designed for wholesalers, distributors, third-party logistics providers, and food distributors.

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Liquidity and Bankruptcy

Corporate Finance

As investors have learned, like any other investment, cryptocurrency is subject to volatility. The recent bankruptcy filing of crypto exchange FTX shows, this volatility can be extreme. For example, the Ontario Teachers' Pension plan wrote down $95 million due to the collapse. As you probably know, bankruptcy occurs when liabilities are greater than assets.

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Labor market tightness unaffected by unemployment uptick

CFO Dive

Labor market conditions likely remain untouched despite a recent rise in unemployment claims prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, with labor demand still outpacing supply.

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Warehouse Packing Help Wanted, Excellent Penmanship Required

CFO News Room

Some warehouse workers have been preparing for the seasonal rush of orders and deliveries by learning to hand-tie ribbons and to carefully hand-write notes as luxury brands seek to reproduce the high-end store experience for items shipped to people’s homes. At a warehouse in northern New Jersey one recent weekday, a trainee wearing a pair of blue gloves hesitantly tied a ribbon around one luxury brand’s box as a supervisor looked on. .

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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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Distribution ERP Implementation Strategy

Navigator SAP

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a range of software solutions designed to help you manage your business. There are different ERP software that helps organizations independently manage their financials, communication with suppliers and customers, EDI, warehousing, analytics, demand planning, and distribution departments.

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Manager Selection: The Power of Payoff

CFA Institute

The most important portfolio manager skill metric is often overlooked.

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Geopolitical tensions to continue shaping 2023 economy: S&P Global

CFO Dive

Unresolved global conflicts and likely recessions in several markets will shape economic policies in 2023, a survey said.

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Deere, HP, Nordstrom and others

CFO News Room

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Deere (DE) – The heavy equipment maker reported better-than-expected profit and revenue for its latest quarter and issued an upbeat outlook. Deere said it benefited from positive farm fundamentals and increased infrastructure investment. Its stock jumped 4.2% in premarket trading. HP Inc. (HPQ) – HP rose 3.1% in the premarket after announcing it will cut up to 10% of its 61,000-person workforce over the next three years due to an extended

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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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Distribution ERP Implementation Challenges

Navigator SAP

Distribution companies that face challenges in managing their inventories, supply chains, and logistics activities are often told to turn to distribution ERP software. Distribution ERP software is a tool that manages logistics operations as well as front- and back-office activities of wholesale and distribution companies.

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10 Friday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • The Best 50-Year-Old Investing Advice Money Can Buy : Nearly 50 years ago, the economist Burton Malkiel came out with a book that said, in effect, that all of us should be in index funds. The stock and bond markets incorporate new information into prices almost instantly, so trying to beat them is a fool’s errand, Malkiel wrote.

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Labor market rebalancing will require job loss: Fitch

CFO Dive

The job openings rate will likely decline from the current rate of 6.5% to 5.2% by 2024, reducing job openings by 2.1 million, according to Fitch Ratings.

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Ancestry CEO Deb Liu Says Women Need to Reframe Their Relationship to Power

CFO News Room

Deb Liu is CEO of Ancestry, the $5 billion genealogy platform, and the author of Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work. While overt discrimination against women may have receded in recent years, she says covert discrimination, including unconscious bias, can be just as pernicious, keeping women from reaching the peaks of success. She pushes for women to find themselves not just mentors offering advice, but a sponsor who will put­ their own career on the line to advance that of som

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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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FTX: Crypto Is the Cure, Not the Cause

CFA Institute

The FTX fiasco has more to do with fractional reserve banking than it does with crypto.

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Grinch: Ignore Black Friday Retail Forecasts

Barry Ritholtz

It’s Black Friday and you know what that means: Lots of promotional sales and lots of holiday retail spending forecasts. You can rely on the latter being ubiquitous and wrong; some by a little, most by a lot. At least, that’s what the statistically likely outcome is. As we have seen historically , holiday sales forecasts tend to be a reflection of people’s mood at the moment — not an actual measure of intended holiday spending.

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‘Inflation may have peaked’ as economy slumps: Fannie Mae

CFO Dive

The U.S. economy will likely shrink during this quarter and most of 2023 as the Federal Reserve cools demand and curbs inflation, Fannie Mae said.

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Duncan Burgess, Global Finance Director

CFO News Room

Duncan Burgess’ “number one passion” in his role is people. “You could put in the best process and/or technological solutions, but if people in the business and finance team don’t believe in it or understand it, it’ll fail.”. “So, success always comes back to the people,” says Duncan, who is a Global Finance Director. . One of Duncan’s favourite aspects about being a Global Finance Director is the opportunity he has had to develop and build the finance teams.

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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.