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Quick Guide to SaaS Expense Forecasting

The Finance Weekly

This is why expense forecasting is valuable for CEOs, CFOs, and other executives when predicting a company's future financial performance. What Is an Expense Forecast? An expense forecast is a prediction of your future business costs. While the idea is simple, creating an accurate forecast is more complicated than it seems.

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Securing The Growing Digital Opportunity

PYMNTS

But even the most enthusiastic futurist or technologist couldn’t have forecast that by the first week of May 2020 the world would no longer be going digital so much as gone digital in response to black swan events that radically hit reset on our working, commerce and personal lives nearly overnight.

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Retail Sales Numbers Predict A Cruel April

PYMNTS

With some analysts estimating a 4 to 24 percent drop the number was surprisingly low. While the overall number broke records on the negative side, binge-buying put food and beverage at a record 25.6 However, the unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 crisis make these numbers difficult to act on. Overall sales fell 8.7

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How CFOs should budget for security

Future CFO

According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide , global spending on security-related hardware, software, and services is forecast to reach US$103.1 It appears that a deep chasm exists between what organisations are willing to spend on security and what it will cost their business. billion in 2019, up 9.4%

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998: Margins, Metrics, and Payments | Lawrence Herman, CFO, Dwolla

CFO Thought Leader

Read More Following his stint at Goldman Sachs, Herman transitioned to Prudential Securities, diving into the intricate world of mergers and acquisitions. This move wasn’t just a change of address: It was a strategic step into a role that demanded a deep understanding of corporate strategies and the foresight to see beyond numbers.

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Morgan Stanley Piles On Apple, Lowers iPhone Shipment Forecast

PYMNTS

Apple doesn’t report earnings until May 1, but that hasn’t stopped Wall Street analysts from cutting their forecasts for iPhone shipments, with Morgan Stanley the most recent to pile on. She expects the Cupertino, California technology company to ship 210 million iPhones in fiscal 2018, down from her previous forecast of 217 million.

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Retail Lobby: “We Lied About Organized Theft”

Barry Ritholtz

I tracked the annual retail sales forecast as a twofold exercise: Avoid forecasts, as they are mostly wrong, and tend to lose investors’ money. And according to NRF data itself, from its annual Retail Security Survey, shrink attributed to external theft, including organized retail crime, has largely remained the same since 2015.

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