CFO Dive

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The number of special purpose acquisition companies could be down significantly this year as investors digest the poor performance many of them had last year.

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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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Private Funds CFO

MARCH 15, 2022

More than 20 firms with a diverse management team are coming to market each year, says private markets firm RCP Advisors.

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CFO Dive

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

“As CFO it’s my role to make sure I take the strategy and paint the picture with numbers,” Elena Gomez said.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The airline joins a growing group of companies—from Breeze Airways to Resy to Facebook—that eliminate or make phone numbers extra hard for customers to find. The budget carrier dropped its phone service option last month, leaving customers to use chat functions or social media to resolve issues.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The First Totally Honest Stock Market Story. FRIDAY’S MARKETS. The market rallied early this morning for reasons nobody understands and nobody predicted. Advances led declines by 4 to 1, the bond market was incomprehensibly boring, the Mets beat the Phillies 6 to 2, and Kate Winslet’s measurements remained 35-29-38.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world. Happy New Year, and I hope that 2022 brings you good tidings!

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Over the years, though, as the focus of the profession evolved from being almost exclusively transaction-based sales to having a focus on building long-term relationships, so too did growth shift from sales-based approaches to more long-term trust-building marketing tactics.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm. The numbers yield interesting insights. .

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 7, 2022

But Pope Francis has also said some very disturbing and incorrect things about the mechanisms that put food on everyday people’s plates: markets. Alas, the Pontiff does not understand market exchange, comparative advantage, division of labor, or mutual gains from trade. A friend of human flourishing might blanche at such constraints.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 21, 2023

But typically, the opportunity to create and implement a marketing strategy is not one of these reasons. In fact, data from the latest Kitces Research study, How Financial Planners Actually Market Their Services, shows that many advisors find marketing to be difficult and not very effective. Read More.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 15, 2024

Growing an advisory firm is no easy task – and advisors who start firms often have few resources to spare (beyond their own knowledge and time), face huge to-do lists, and are required to wear a number of hats. Read More.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

If the role of statistics is to make sense of large and contradictory data, it is a critical skill in every discipline, and especially one, with as many numbers as finance. Being a control freak, I have created my own versions of what I would like my students to know in each of these disciplines, and you can find my versions on my website.

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Accountancy Today

JANUARY 10, 2022

The combined market value of the 60 UK-listed companies that participated is £493bn, approximately 19% of the UK quoted equity market. Ian Stewart, chief economist at Deloitte, said: “Like equity markets, which rallied into the new year, CFOs seem to be looking past Omicron and plan to focus their businesses on growth in 2022.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 11, 2023

If you are in that group, the sovereign CDS market offers market-based and real-time measures of sovereign default risk, although for only 80 countries, and the map below reports the sovereign CDS spreads, as of June 30, 2022 : Source: Bloomberg. Country Risk: Equity Risk .

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 23, 2023

An important truism about marketing is that to be effective, the marketer’s message needs to connect with the audience it intends to reach. Ultimately, what’s important to remember is that it often takes time for the effects of quality content marketing to come to fruition, meaning the most important lesson is to stick with it.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Thus, it includes not only the direct costs of producing the product or service the firm sells, but also other expenses associated with operations, including S, G & A expenses and marketing costs. Facebook: Cleaning up the Accounting.

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CFO News

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Corporate travel is resuming in India, with overseas markets like Hong Kong, Moscow, Turkiye, Dubai, and more betting big on hosting meetings and conferences. Dubai introduces a 5-year visa to boost travel, and Turkiye expects high MICE traveler numbers from India.

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VCFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Yet, this perception often differs from the view of the market. As a business owner, understanding the underlying drivers of genuine, market validated value in your enterprise empowers informed decisions. This is a critical number used in valuing companies. Discussion of several common adjustments follows.

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Future CFO

APRIL 18, 2022

Global IPO market saw significant slowdown in Q1 2022 after fter record-high levels of global IPO activity in 2021, said EY recently. However, by the second half of the quarter, worldwide stock market declines shifted the trajectory dramatically in the opposite direction, resulting in a significant drop in overall activity, EY added.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 31, 2023

If 2022 was an unsettling year for equities, as I noted in my second data post, it was an even more tumultuous year for the bond market. The rise in rates transmitted to corporate bond market rates, with a concurrent rise in default spreads exacerbating the damage to investors. in 2022, higher than the 1- 1.5%

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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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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Pre-game Prep. If there is a lesson be learnt from the last few years of market mayhem, it is that far too many investors, professional as well as retail, seem to have lost their moorings (or never had them in the first place), when it comes to the basics of accounting, finance and statistics.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Despite Friday’s (May 8) grim unemployment report , which revealed that the number of Americans who have lost their jobs has quadrupled since February, there is still optimism among the nation’s workforce. economics, said the high number of temporary layoffs was a glimmer of light in the BLS’ bleak report. Nonfarm jobs fell by 20.5

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Moreover, current market conditions drive private fund managers to hone in on their cash management practices , with many turning to strategies more commonly used by their corporate counterparts. Money market funds are “particularly attractive” as they generate yield on idle cash and are highly liquid, according to Quinn.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I think it really is going to take that before we see a completely normalized market.”. The Hub Fed chief acknowledged the latest job numbers are a “significant improvement.” But I think at this point the market understands that we’re not planning on raising rates anytime soon.”. On Thursday (Sept. 3), the U.S. million, up 2.2

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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

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 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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The Charity CFO

AUGUST 16, 2023

Today, we explored the importance of websites, nonprofit marketing, and how to bridge the gaps between departments to achieve digital success. When we think marketing, we think of getting the word out and expressing the mission behind the help non-profit organizations (NPOs) provide. We invited David Pisarek of Wow Digital, Inc.

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Future CFO

MAY 21, 2023

Global top 100 firms have seen their largest market capitalisation drop by 11% in 2023, equivalent to almost US$3.8 Report highlights A challenging macroeconomic environment caused by ongoing tightening of fiscal policy, high inflation, and uncertainty surrounding the US and European banking sector have weighed on equity markets globally.

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Future CFO

MARCH 15, 2020

He also talks about the Fintech disruption occurring in the market, and how to be part of the transformation impacting the industry. San Diego acknowledges that CFOs, and people in the finance function, trained to “talk” to numbers – to decipher what the numbers are telling you about the past, and potentially the possibilities for the future.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The number of peer-to-peer lenders in China is projected to decline greatly to around 50 from more than 1,500 during the course of the next year. Several other industry executives told the Financial Times that the new regulations will push most of the companies out of the market.

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CFO News

MARCH 1, 2023

The increase in the number of lateral white-collar job positions could be attributed to the need among certain sectors to recruit for their long-term growth plans as well as replacement hiring in sectors facing high attrition.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

First-time homebuyers are about 30 percent of the market (after the market, overall, was “dead” as the virus hit), and working from home is now a standard expectation. housing market (out of 130 million households in the entire country) that are looking for new insurance. This Time Is Different.

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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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