Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That recovery notwithstanding, uncertainties about inflation and the economy remained unresolved, and those uncertainties became part of the market story in the third quarter of 2023. The Markets in the Third Quarter Coming off a year of rising rates in 2022, interest rates have continued to command center stage in 2023.

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Centage

APRIL 24, 2023

Finance teams that embrace digital transformation and recognize the value of moving to a modern FP&A solution are better equipped to adapt to market changes, take intelligent risks, and capitalize swiftly on new opportunities. Track and control costs. Use these insights to allocate your costs optimally, and ultimately drive profitability.

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Centage

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Is your business set up to handle dynamic market conditions? Without it, you won’t know if you can make necessary capital expenditures to deal with unforeseen changes in the market, or have the funds to hire to ramp up production. What is a cash flow forecast? Do you have the resources to adapt?

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Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If your board asked you to run new numbers based on fresh assumptions, it took you days or weeks to create a new set of reports. But times have changed – which is why financial forecasting is more important than your annual budget. More than half (57%) are producing P&L forecasts more often than monthly. Watch Demo.

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Centage

JANUARY 18, 2022

While spreadsheets have long reigned supreme as the foundation of budgeting and forecasting for many organizations, the shortcomings of this legacy, siloed tool have become too hard to ignore. Accuracy is the critical to the budgeting and forecasting process. Confidence – Am I confident in the numbers coming out of the model?

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Centage

JANUARY 31, 2022

Is your business set up to handle these dynamic market conditions? Cash flow forecasting provides that much needed insight and is the most effective way to start future-proofing your business for the year ahead. Transform how you budget, forecast, analyze and report. Do you have the resources to adapt? Learn More.

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Centage

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Forecasting errors are an inevitable part of the budgeting process. Quickly identifying forecast errors in your budget is not a sign of failure, but an opportunity for improvement. Forecast error: Definition and Types In the simplest terms, forecast errors are the difference between predicted values and actual outcomes.

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Jedox Finance

OCTOBER 24, 2019

A high-quality business forecast delivers far more than just numbers. Finance professionals regularly try to look in their crystal ball with forecasts and enable the company to have seamless, solid planning. For this to succeed, your forecast must be of high quality. Though other forecasting strategies are also possible.)

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In my first two posts on Facebook, I noted that its most recent earnings report, and the market reaction to it, offers an opportunity for us to talk about bigger issues. In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers.

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Fpanda Club

APRIL 18, 2022

Marketing teams, being among FP&A’s counterparties, are usually considered to be the most creative people in the company. To perform these functions marketing, as a discipline, possesses a wide range of tools and techniques that can be used to analyze data, verify hypotheses and communicate information.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the face of rapidly changing, unstable market conditions, traditional annual budgeting and forecasting processes have become outdated. Making rigid assumptions months ahead of time can often lead to worthless forecasts, as things can turn upside down so quickly. What is a rolling forecast?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the face of rapidly changing, unstable market conditions, traditional annual budgeting and forecasting processes have become outdated. Making rigid assumptions months ahead of time can often lead to worthless forecasts, as things can turn upside down so quickly. What is a rolling forecast?

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Centage

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Your ability to provide expert guidance through your business budget and forecasting process will require you to have a deep understanding of your cash flow. Growth requires investments in people, capital spending, market expansion, mergers and acquisitions. How much can a CEO rely on the numbers in the forecast?

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Centage

JUNE 21, 2022

Implementing rolling budgeting, rolling financial forecasting, and mid-year forecasts. Rolling budgets come with a number of advantages, including the ability to better predict outcomes and plan for where your company is headed. With a rolling 12-month forecast, previous months drop off as new ones are added. The answer?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Friday’s report of 467,000 jobs added in January confounded Wall Street economists, some of whom expected a negative number due to the impact of the omicron Covid variant on the workforce. Traders in the futures market began to price in six interest rate hikes for this year, while many economists predict four or five.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Predicting your organization’s financial health through forecasting is a critical role of your finance function, but there are many approaches. Two of the most common methods pitted against each other are top-down vs bottom-up forecasting. What is top-down revenue forecasting? What is bottom-up forecasting?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Predicting your organization’s financial health through forecasting is a critical role of your finance function, but there are many approaches. Two of the most common methods pitted against each other are top-down vs bottom-up forecasting. What is top-down revenue forecasting? What is bottom-up forecasting?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

According to Dow Jones, the consensus forecast calls for 187,000 new nonfarm jobs in January, down from 223,000 that were created in December. But economists say it’s not clear how much of that will show up in the labor numbers. “The market is so desperate to find in anything a reason that the Fed is going to pivot. .

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Centage

JUNE 28, 2022

With less cash to count on, knowing your cash flow position with cash flow forecasting has never been more important: how much is really in the bank, how much is available on short notice, what revenues are coming in when, and what resources are going out and when. We examine the reasons below.

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Future CFO

JULY 5, 2023

The IPO markets in China and Hong Kong to become more robust in 2H 2023, said Deloitte China's Capital Market Services Group (CMSG) recently. The CMSG expects the A share market will have had 174 new listings raising RMB209.5 This would represent a 3% rise in the number of IPOs and a 33% drop in funds raised.

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Future CFO

APRIL 4, 2023

IPO markets in China and Hong Kong are estimated to be more vibrant in the rest of 2023, said Deloitte China's Capital Market Services Group (CMSG) when releasing its Q1 2023 analysis and forecasts. IPO markets in China and Hong Kong in Q1 As of 31 March 2023, the A share market had 68 new listings raising RMB65.1

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Jedox Finance

JUNE 24, 2021

This also affects the go-to-market processes in particular for the marketing and sales functions. A company’s web presence, which is usually designed by marketing, is becoming an increasingly important component in the sales process. Where marketing and sales converge. The evolution of marketing data.

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Future CFO

JULY 19, 2022

The IPO market in Hong Kong is set to slow in 2002, said Deloitte China recently wen releasing its interim review and outlook for the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong markets. As a result, the IPO market in Hong Kong is expected to see slower performance in 2022 compared with the past four years. billion in 1H 2022.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The numbers don’t lie -- or so the saying goes – but they rarely tell the whole story either, just like how the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) encompasses more than just finance and accounting. It used to be pretty much all about the numbers – but the narrative has changed. billion Specialty and Automotive Lighting business unit.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 16, 2023

For that reason, the inflation number has become a major event for financial markets, and now some traders are betting it will show inflation slowing even more than economists forecast. “The market is looking at it as glass half full. Market expectations are just 20% for a 50 basis point hike.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Economists forecast the unemployment rate was steady at 3.7%, and average wage growth slowed to 0.3% ET, and is in special focus since the Federal Reserve has been concerned that the hot labor market and rising wages have been helping fuel inflation. economist, forecasts that an above consensus 225,000 jobs were added in November.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Twilio — Twilio’s stock plunged nearly 36%, a day after the company issued a weaker-than-expected sales forecast. On Friday, Cowen downgraded the communication tools company to market perform from outperform, citing deteriorating macro trends. PayPal — PayPal slid 5% after lowering its annual revenue growth forecast.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

The company also forecasted a loss for the current quarter. Silvergate Capital — The crypto-focused bank slid more than 22% after it suspended dividend payments on its Series A preferred stock, in an effort to preserve capital as it navigates recent crypto market volatility. per share, according to Refinitiv.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Homebuyer mortgage applications surged as June turned into July, in yet another sign of the housing market ’s surprisingly strong rebound after the coronavirus-triggered shutdown this spring. The number of purchase applications also jumped 5 percent over the previous week in June, the MBA said.

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The Finance Weekly

JUNE 22, 2022

To top it all off, the current market downturn and continued inflation is putting additional strains on companies’ forecasting and planning efforts. This is causing them to miss out on in-depth, long term engagement with existing customers, as well as the inability to increase the number of customers they are able to take on.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The new numbers are roughly four times greater than new claims before the pandemic. The total number of continued weeks claimed for benefits in all programs for the week ending Nov. The rise in unemployment follows the surge in the number of new coronavirus cases. Initial jobless claims for the week that ended Dec.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

With this information, you can make critical strategic decisions, such as how much to spend on a major marketing campaign or whether to expand into a new market. During turbulent times, your business can forecast and do scenario planning for the future with our forecasting and scenario planning tools at Centage.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

One of the big news stories of last week was Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO of Twitter, and the market’s response to that news was to push up Twitter’s stock price by almost 10%. In contrast, consider Yahoo!,

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 1, 2023

After a monstrous 68% recovery from the March 2020 pandemic low, and another nearly 30% gain in 2021, markets decided to have one of their all-too-regular spasms. The wisdom of the crowd is why the efficient markets work most of the time, but it really helps to be aware when the crowd turns into an unthinking mob of hooligans.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

Though United Rentals missed analysts’ expectations for per-share earnings, it was in-line with Wall Street’s forecasts for revenue, per FactSet. The company forecasted 2023 revenue to range between $13.7 analysts forecasted, according to FactSet. Analysts forecasted earnings of 17 cents per share on $530.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

As a result of the COVID-19 health crisis, Starbucks anticipates a loss of for its fiscal third quarter as it forecasts a loss in revenue of up to $3.2 The coffee chain plans to bring approximately 300 new stores online in fiscal 2020, which is lower than the 600 previously forecasted. billion, CNBC reported.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

As inflation has taken center stage, markets have gone into retreat globally, and across asset classes. In 2022, as bond rates have risen, stock prices have fallen, and crypto has imploded, even true believers are questioning what the bottom for markets might be, and when we will get there.

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