CFO Share

JUNE 6, 2024

This involves monitoring market risks, managing credit exposures, maintaining adequate liquidity, and implementing robust internal controls to prevent financial losses and ensure financial stability. Financial risk management is about identifying, evaluating, and addressing financial threats that could harm a company’s assets.

Risk Management 105

Risk Management CFO Foreign Exchange Credit Risk 105

E78 Partners

JUNE 16, 2025

But behind those numbers is a consistent, sobering pattern: 70 to 75 percent of M&A transactions fail to achieve their intended outcomes, whether that’s driving revenue growth, capturing cost synergies, or preserving shareholder value. ¹ Within two years, the division was sold at a major loss. Google and Motorola (2012) – $12.5

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Leadership Profit and Loss Communication 52

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Studies have shown that more than half of all banks recover less than 25 percent of related losses, and FIs have reported a 59 percent growth in fraud value and a 61 percent increase in fraud volume since 2015. million in losses. Employee and customer education is the first defense banks should leverage to prevent attacks, she said.

Profit and Loss 74

Profit and Loss Leverage Education Securities 74

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

While the creators of the scheme promised they would put investor funds into profitable and, perhaps, dividend-paying companies, they instead spent $20 million from the investment pool to enrich themselves, according to the SEC complaint. It also claims the number of schemes has been similar over the past five years.

Banking 65

Banking Profit and Loss Education Investments 65

PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Trackers use a number of creative methodologies and frameworks that measure and benchmark an ever-changing landscape. One out of every three Americans said they had experienced a loss of income as a result of the pandemic. This loss can be crippling for consumers who live paycheck to paycheck or have little savings.

Profit and Loss 103

Profit and Loss Banking B2B Retail 103

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 10, 2022

This in-kind “tax” was perfectly acceptable to the farming community and it was able to fend off LAW’s legislation for a number of years. When good-quality roads became commercially important, profit-seeking firms were there to provide them. Inhabitants were expected to devote a few days each year to road upkeep.

Construction 130

Construction Profit and Loss Treasury Economics 130

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And then I used to do those numbers by hand using the Barron’s MarketLab pages and, you know, underlining stuff and using an anti machine and all that by hand work, which was Educational. Since January has has had some trouble recently with a lot of profit taking. Pretty good numbers. We see it change. Guess what?

Profit and Loss 128

Profit and Loss Marketing Investments Forecasting 128

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Small businesses, it is often said, form the backbone of the American economy, and by the numbers that is a hard statement to argue with. Of the 28 or so million firms in the United States, 99 percent are classified as small businesses and roughly 58.9 million people — 47.5

Education 61

Education Profit and Loss Budgeting Planning 61

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces.

Planning 130

Planning Profit and Loss Communication Education 130

PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

Both the number of incidences of account takeover and the amount of money lost to fraudsters using the method hit a low point in 2014. billion in losses last year. Just a few ago, it seemed that the “good guys” had the upper hand on fraudsters when it came to the account takeover battle. Account takeovers accounted for more than $2.3

Accounting 56

Accounting Securities Profit and Loss Numbers 56

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Early in my career as a Product Manager, I recognised the importance of understanding the financials behind the products I was managing, particularly the product profit and loss statements. This realisation, combined with my love for numbers, motivated me to further my education in accounting.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Leadership Accounting Transportation 52

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 30, 2022

We also have a number of articles on investments: Fixed-income ETFs saw inflows this year, while their mutual fund counterparts experienced significant outflows, suggesting that the dominance of bond mutual funds could be eroding. He has an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from the University of Virginia.

Planning 130

Planning Auditing Investments Securities 130

Future CFO

APRIL 15, 2020

Highlights of findings Based on data of nearly 13,000 Danish SMEs between 1996 and 2012, Bennedsen and his co-authors find that five-to-seven day hospitalisations sent firm profitability tumbling by 7% in the year of illness, the business school noted. . However, the degree of the dip varied depending on a number of attributes.

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss Concentration Education Economics 40

PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

While the expanse and availability of canine- related products (in areas of food, medicine, grooming, toys, et al.) — and the potential for profit garnered from them — are ever-growing, the means through which consumers acquire the animals themselves have changed drastically over the last several years and continue to do so.

Retail 45

Retail Profit and Loss Sales Education 45

The Finance Weekly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Emerging financial trends are allowing businesses to expand their operations while maintaining profitability. Nonetheless, it is always preferable to pursue further education. With the use of heuristics, graph algorithms, and transaction flow analysis, Data Science algorithms evaluate a huge number of transactions to find anomalies.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Profit and Loss Invoicing Accounting 52

Finvisage

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Thats why I say this is also very educational. Derivative contracts make it possible to multiply the impact of the short making it possible to profit from a short position larger than the actual shares borrowed. During the pandemic and lockdowns, with people stuck at home and schools closed, wasn’t a gaming company due to make profit?

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Retail Securities Leverage 52

CFO Share

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Don’t get me wrong – employee satisfaction definitely affects profits. Productivity is the net of all efficiency gains and losses. Conclusion: Work from Home is 4x More Profitable than Hybrid Working. When all costs and benefits are added up, the results are clear: work from home was more profitable than work from office.

Profit and Loss 59

Profit and Loss Financial Analysis Finance CFO 59

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The problem with large investments – the type that run into the billions of dollars – is that just as gains can be astronomical, the losses can be devastating. There are any number of tech unicorns that have been grounded post-IPO, among them Slack , Lyft, Uber and Peloton. WeWork never made it to market. billion.

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss Valuation Education Currencies 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Six days later, The New York Times reported that Bear Stearns was dangling on the age of bankruptcy and a forced liquidation after it posted a 61 percent drop in net profits as a result of hedge fund losses in the subprime mortgage market. The 70K Lifetime Loss (And Other Interesting Figures About Our Financial Futures).

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss Education Economics Marketing 40

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Communications that include generic brand content, purely educational material, market commentary, and event sponsorship, by themselves, are not deemed to be advertisements. To be considered an advertisement under the first prong, the communication must offer the adviser’s services with regard to securities.

Advertising 130

Advertising Marketing Communication Compliance 130

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

If you do assume that markets will price away this excess profit, you then have the basis for the models that are used to value options and other derivative assets. Not only was this an indication of how dollar-centric much of finance education used to be, but also of how much faith there was that the US treasury was default-free.

Investments 98

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 98

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

From that data, it builds predictive AI models whose insights guide carriers to make faster, more educated risk selection and pricing decisions. Imagine my surprise when the manager told me, “It’s not our problem, and I don’t want to fix this because it hurts my store’s profitability.”. Our clients improved their loss ratios by 1.9

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss Benchmarking Technology Education 40

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. And so, it’s a little bit of an educational process, but …. So obviously, we’re seeing some relief in the commodity sector, but more broadly it’s, you know, whether or not how quickly are we going to see that number come down.

Investments 118

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 118

Planful

JANUARY 11, 2022

Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that, since AI can lead companies to become more profitable, companies can then hire more employees. There are a number of advocates and organizations leading the charge to avoid these pitfalls. But what happens to humans when the bots take over?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Profit and Loss Reconciliations 40

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

And you know, just simple things like, hey, the value of tax loss harvesting, how do you make that apparent to people? We’ve always been a virtual company, just used to be through the mail and 1-800 number when I joined. So that’s a number I hadn’t seen before. Number one, you put it back into the business.

Leadership 110

Leadership Investments Profit and Loss Technology 110

The Charity CFO

APRIL 15, 2022

Um, and more importantly, we talk about that transition plan for a lot of nonprofits that are dealing with, uh, the loss of their accountants. I mean, we see our clients constantly struggling, um, to find clinicians, uh, you know, educators, administrators, all sorts of backgrounds. I think this is a couple different reasons.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Accounting CFO Problem Solving 52

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2022

That group provides investment services, education and research to more than a thousand financial advisory firms, representing more than $3 trillion in assets. RAMPULLA: I went to Drexel part time while I was at Vanguard, did that commute down to Philadelphia from the suburbs, you know, three times a week for a number of years.

Investments 113

Investments Profit and Loss Education Advertising 113

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Combined with growing advisor (and consumer) interest in comprehensive financial planning services, the number of ways advisors can add value for their clients has expanded greatly. Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area.

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I found that subsegment really interesting because we did studies on kind of decision making biases, human biases like loss aversion and other biases that impact otherwise what should be rational decisions and make them less than rational. So during my time there, I was probably employee number four or five. Absolutely.

Investments 58

Investments Economics Marketing Benchmarking 58

CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It’s clear that African CFOs are highly focused on education and development, perhaps because there’s so much investment and growth happening in Africa. In terms of my education, I hold a BCom in Accounting from the University of Eswatini and a postgraduate diploma from the University of South Africa (UNISA).

Finance 97

Finance Auditing CFO Leadership 97

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. That’s an amazing lesson in life, right, to take failure and losses as business as usual. MIELLE: It’s the probability and the severity of your loss, but sticking with it is, you know, what it takes.

Investments 113

Investments Restructuring Profit and Loss Finance 113

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

We also have a number of articles on spending and budgeting: Why advisors might want to consider using a client service calendar to organize the wide range of services they provide for clients throughout the year. A review of financial planning actions, from tax-loss harvesting to charitable giving, that have a December 31 deadline.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Planning Valuation Securities 130

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance.

Math 58

Math Risk Management Profit and Loss Marketing 58

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. RITHOLTZ: I’ve been educated with this book, so it’s deep in my thought process.

Profit and Loss 74

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Sales 74

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 29, 2021

This is a “short” sale, and if you are right and the stock price drops, you can buy the shares at the now "discounted" price, return them to the original owner and keep the difference as your profit. In a short squeeze, this cycle speeds up to the point that short sellers have no choice but to exit the position.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Investments Valuation Sales 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We took that number the 15 times before we die. Then you use the profits from that to buy a second boat. And we are, we are wired to wanna see the number go up. And I, I think in 10 years of knowing Tim, the number of times we’ve talked about Apple, I can probably count on like one hand. We made a change.

Investments 58

Investments Finance Profit and Loss Numbers 58

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. You don’t give them education, so they don’t know any, they can’t only have a skillset. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional.

Economics 58

Economics Education Profit and Loss Banking 58