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This FP&A Factor will Cost US Businesses $7,800,000,000 in 2022

The Finance Weekly

Breaking down the Math. The scope of manual work is also quite large and covers categories such as budgets, month-end closes, and forecasts. Other examples are Lego using real time data to drive , revenue over the past few years, and the FP&A team at manufacturing company Chemours improving margins for industrial plants.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. RITHOLTZ: Manufacturing, Ford as an example, sure. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And that’s sort of the math. What led to that approach?