PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The coronavirus has far-reaching impacts that extend beyond health, with a wide range of economic effects in sectors ranging from transportation to telecom and retail. AT&T Cybersecurity also won’t participate, which brings the total number of firms that have withdrawn to 14. The number includes seven from the U.S.,

Transportation

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

billion compared to the previous quarter, as pay-TV subscriber numbers declined. million compared to a forecast for $911.4 Robinson — The stock fell 6% after the transportation and logistics company reported disappointing revenue in its latest results. Paramount said revenue for its TV media segment was down 5% to about $4.9

Foreign Exchange

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Duncan Burgess’ “number one passion” in his role is people. He joined oil and gas company BG Group in their budgeting and forecasting team to broaden his management accounting and reporting experience. After a few other job roles, he became UK finance director at taxi transport and technology company Gett in 2018.

Finance

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Within infrastructure, one of the key focus areas is leveraging multimodal transport infrastructure to reduce logistics costs, thereby improving India’s overall competitiveness. However, a number of policy reforms are essential for creating a sustainable private investment eco-system, many of which are outside the purview of the budget.

Budgeting

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In a report dubbed “Global Payment Cards Data and Forecast,” the firm found that one in five card payments will be contactless by 2021. Last year, the number of contactless-enabled terminals in Europe increased 63 percent to reach 4.9 That’s an increase from one in 20 as of 2015.

Forecasting

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Russia has said it will not sell to any countries that participate in the price cap scheme, and Jaishankar has repeatedly stated that India cannot afford to buy oil at high prices – at least not without undermining its economic growth, which is forecast to be 6.1 percent in 2023, the fastest-growing major economy in the world.

Transportation

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Vytal uses the data to train a machine-learning algorithm that forecasts container-needs for each partner in the network and creates load-balancing routes for exchanging and delivering needed packaging between partners. Moreover, it allows Vytal to optimize transportation planning. Vytal’s growth path.

Transportation

VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

raw material, inbound freight, internal transport costs) All conversion costs (e.g., This translates to purchasing power as many vendors are willing to make concessions to keep customers who know how to forecast their needs. Forecasting Sales and Applying Seasonality Sales is also a pivotal part of the inventory turnover equation.

Manufacturing

Bramasol

JANUARY 13, 2023

DSE in Transportation. It’s used today by most of the largest Media and Telecom companies in the world, as well as a growing number of mid-sized telecom companies.". Forecasting and Planning for the Digital Solutions Economy. Previous episodes in this series include: DSE in the Media and Entertainment industry.

SAP

PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

Fast-forward a bit to where we are now — for business leaders, Huang said, it’s been a challenge to manage employees and budgets, much less to make accurate forecasts. So, everyone’s definitely tracking these numbers for the next two weeks.”. Inventory Buildup.

eCommerce

Bramasol

MARCH 10, 2023

By focusing on a smaller number of products and services that are regularly updated, they can optimize supply chains and reduce production costs. This can help them plan and invest for the long term, rather than relying on variable sales of individual products.

SAP

Bramasol

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

DSE in Transportation. The two plus years of pandemic-driven changes keeping more people at home created a sudden growth peak in subscriber numbers, which has been followed in 2022 by a shift back toward fundamental bottom line issues such as containing costs and improving revenue per subscriber. DSE in the Medical Device industry.

Entertainment

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

We already know that Apple is feeling the pinch of supply chain disruption, and has reduced its forecasts for the March quarter. To get a sense of the ripple effect: Consider the fact that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said that as a group, global airlines could see lost revenue to the tune of $29 billion.

Transportation

PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Plans to expand some airports have been put on hold as air transportation has been grounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, The Wall Street Journal reported. For the week ending June 6, the number of travelers screened by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was 2.4 million, PYMNTS found.

Construction

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Airbnb’s business has been hit hard, with revenue this year forecasted to be less than half of what we earned in 2019.”. Chesky’s words came as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported the number of travelers who went through its security gates on May 4 was 163,692 compared to 2.5 He said its U.S.

Healthcare

Future CFO

JANUARY 27, 2022

According to the firm’s analysis of S&P 1200 company earnings call transcripts from 3Q20 through 3Q21, the number of companies mentioning inflation doubled from around 350 to just under 700, leading to an eightfold rise in keywords relating to inflation from around 850 to 7000.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Network

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Specifically, it will be critical to consider the impact of rising and sustained inflation in our next year forecasts. The danger with this number is that consumers may elect no to buy discretionary goods and services, instead saving as much money as they can to cover the essentials. The CPI in September stood at 5.4%.

Planning

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

In what seems to be shaping up to be a modern-day version of The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones, Uber and Lyft have put out their numbers for the latest quarter, and depending on where you look, or what niche you examine, or what line item you favor, one or the other is a winner. Revenues were $3.2 billion; the Street had expected $3.3

Transportation

PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

For 2020, global passenger numbers (enplanements) are expected to decline by 55 percent compared to 2019, worsened from the April forecast of 46 percent.”.

Treasury

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Unfortunately, it looks like the growing number of online returns is forcing retailers to grapple with an equally confounding problem: the reverse supply chain.

Transportation

Bramasol

JULY 31, 2023

In addition to the MedTech sector, these issues of optimizing and integrating lessor accounting with DSE also apply to other industries such as semiconductors , electronics manufacturing , transportation , telecom , energy , utilities , and others.

Accounting

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2019

But Lyft’s numbers also showed that revenue and growth have been borne atop a sea of red ink. As John Zimmer, the firm’s co-founder, said on the call, the company remains focused on transportation, with recent bike share programs in cities such as New York and San Francisco extending into late in the next decade. (By

Profit and Loss

Future CFO

MARCH 20, 2023

DSO as an accounting metric measures the average number of days a businesses receives payment for goods and services purchased on credit, while DIO is a working capital management ratio that measures the average number of days a company holds inventory before it’s turned into sales. In 2023, more of the same.

Credit Risk

PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

It’s a fine balance between oversupplying and wasting products vs. empty shelves and out-of-stocks and automation can help with forecasting. Kroger is testing such cameras at a small number of locations (just two out of its 2,800 stores). For now, the devices are being used to count the number of shoppers passing by the doors.

Retail

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

On the whole, however, there were more misses than hits by the numbers as the bank is still recovering from troubles that began to emerge with the account creation scandal of 2016. JPMorgan and SoftBank are reportedly in discussions to rescue WeWork before it runs out of money, which is forecast to occur by mid-November.

Transportation

Planful

MAY 11, 2017

The best practice in the market is to shorten the annual budgeting process, make it less granular and use it to set initial targets, then revisit and update the budget assumptions on a regular basis through rolling forecasts. Per BPM Partners, another 13% of companies update their financial forecasting weekly.

Planning

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

The transportation company reported results Wednesday (Aug. In terms of headline numbers, the company said that revenues were up 72 percent to $867.3 In terms of headline numbers, the company said that revenues were up 72 percent to $867.3 7) that topped expectations amid narrowing losses. million, better than the $809.4

Profit and Loss

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Before the new spike in cases, 55 million Americans were forecast to travel during Thanksgiving, down at least 10 percent and the largest year-over-year decrease since 2008. The Transportation Security Administration reported that more than 1.04

Economics

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

The planet’s largest retailer by sales crushed their way through Q2, with bigger than expected gains in revenue, earnings, same-store sales and eCommerce sales than analysts were predicting before the numbers hit the wires. percent to $128 billion, ahead of analyst forecasts of $125.9 All-in revenue jumped up 3.8 percent. .”

Profit and Loss

CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. The 2022 third quarter report included news that revenues would come in below analyst estimates, both in dollar value and number of cares. per share in 2022.

Valuation

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

holiday spending is forecasted to increase up to 4 percent this year compared to 2015, which, in turn, means merchants are expected to handle more global cross-border shipments and payments than usual. With the holiday shopping season nearly in swing, retail shoppers in the U.S. Embracing Alternative Payments.

B2B

PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

And, in China, a drop in the number in the number of self-service terminals such as automated teller machines (ATMs) has come amid fast mobile payments growth, China Daily reported. The number of ATMs in the country at banks fell by 17,800 to arrive at 1.11 million on a quarter-on-quarter basis. And, within 2025, 1.5

Transportation

The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 9, 2022

Other than perhaps taking public transportation to work, what else can a CFO do more than any other average person? These risk assessments are no longer pushed to the back burner of what-if scenarios, but rather companies are treating these scenarios as an important aspect of forecasting. CFOs and climate change: what’s the connection?

CFO

PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

He noted that paper-based processes are slow and often may not provide insight into the number of invoices outstanding or the dollar value of those invoices currently being processed. Typically, the AP department will struggle to just pay on time or reasonably late,” he told PYMNTS.

Accounts Payable

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

All it took were three clicks of her ruby-red slippers and those five words to transport Dorothy back to Kansas and her beloved Auntie Em and Uncle Henry after she, her dog Toto and her farmhouse were uprooted and transported to the Land of Oz in a tornado. All without having to be tied to a smartphone, tablet or PC. and worldwide.

Sales

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This puts more pressure on the CFO, as it is yet another element to keep in mind when budgeting and forecasting. Keeping up to date with the competition in financial outlook perspectives will provide the best possible forecasting scenarios for each organization, including hard-to-predict volatility and real time updates. Conclusion.

Forecasting

PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

One recent report forecasts an annual growth rate of 30 percent or more over the next three years for China’s sharing economy, “thanks to the pub­lic’s ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion, govern­ment’s pol­icy sup­port and ma­ture busi­ness mode.” percent compared with 2017. For cars, it was 61 percent.

Transportation