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Finance vs. Accounting

CFO Simplified

Cash flow forecasting. The CFO’s time is primarily spent with analytics, diving into the “whys” of the numbers, the direction of the company’s performance, the factors that bring improvement, and what that improvement could look like. You can’t improve a company by moving numbers around on the income statement or balance sheet.

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein

Barry Ritholtz

So I was hired to be the quantitative analyst. Quantitative analysis was really starting to gain momentum and everybody thought they needed a quant of one form or another. I went from being the quantitative analyst to being the manager of quantitative analysis, to being the quantitative strategist, to being the chief U.S.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. RITHOLTZ: You guys do everything from quantitative analysis to macro. TROPIN: Sure. RITHOLTZ: Easily, right?