PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

The total number of layoffs hasn’t been finalized yet, according to WSJ, but they are expected to be in the tens of millions, although they won’t all happen at the same time. For us to bring our level of efficiency close to our peers, the math would tell you, we need to eliminate over $10 billion of expenses.”

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Planning Math Numbers Banking 102

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Evolution of Financial Advice.

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Math Advertising Investments Securities 102

CFO Simplified

JUNE 19, 2022

Now, you can do the math when you add all of this together, sit down and ask, “How many customers did we get this year?”. Divide the total amount of marketing and sales support dollars by the number of customers that you’ve received—this will tell you what your customer acquisition cost is.

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CFO Math Advertising Sales 97

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It’s All Math, All The Way Down. Numbered patterns in the pixels are what the computer is programmed to spot, and it makes “decisions” about what those patterns represent, based on complex statistical analysis using every other data set it’s ever encountered as its comparison points.

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Math Technology Construction Numbers 68

Generation CFO

JANUARY 28, 2022

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

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CFO Math Concentration Finance 200

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

But just do the math: Would you prefer to give up 67 basis points (RWM’s dollar-weighted average fee is ~0.67%) or would you prefer to give up 30% of your gains PLUS pay an annual 0.79% fee for the TJUL ETF? The performance numbers reveal this is a terrible trade-off for the average retail investor. Chart after the jump ).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The digital numbers for Lego.com doubled to more than 100 million in the first half of 2020. It launched a brand new unit, called Training Trackers, to teach core science and math concepts with its middle school solution, LEGO® Education SPIKE ?Prime. Christiansen. “We

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 21, 2023

We also talk about how, when Brenda realized she would have to take care of her younger sibling, she asked for help and her high school placed her in a cooperative education program that got her a job as a teller at a credit union which began her career in the financial services industry, how, later in her career, Brenda began a job in insurance (because (..)

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Education Math Planning Leverage 98

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Breaking down the Math. billion is the first number that came out of the research and this represents the total amount of money lost by manual financial work. This number represents how much of an economic uplift could occur “if FP&A departments hit a conservative 0.1% billion is the 2nd half of the study.

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Profit and Loss Budgeting Math 83

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam and bs — and it could feel like the only place online that really mattered.

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Math Banking Economics Securities 60

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market? With the 10 year at 4.2% 1987 Crash 3.

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Treasury Math Economics Sales 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The math implies that 87 million users were inactive. BGR India reported that the app was in the testing phase and had onboarded a number of banks – Axis, ICICI, HDFC, Standard Chartered and others among them.

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Math Economics Numbers Planning 93

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On average, our customers will see a 20 percent lift in approvals and a 30 percent reduction in charge-offs just by deploying better math,” de Vere said. Those are the kind of numbers that explain why Zest received a $15 million investment last week from software developer Insight Partners. 15M In New Funding .

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Math Credit Risk Compliance Banking 138

BlueLight

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In this blog, I’m going to apply that math to a growing startup. Remember, when revenue numbers get bigger, net retention makes a huge difference. There are plenty of blogs that explain what net retention analysis is and the formula to calculate it. This is a good one. Let’s get started. Startup: Alex’s Lemonade SaaS Stand ??

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Math Startups Finance Numbers 52

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 9, 2023

But we have to look beyond the big scary number syndrome here and put this figure into context. We did the math : In all 50 states, it’s cheaper for the everyday American to fill up with electrons — and much cheaper in some regions such as the Pacific Northwest, with low electricity rates and high gas prices. economy. (

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And machines learning from one another is an evolving frontier in which projects and tasks and any number of activities are made more efficient and evolve continuously. They wouldn’t call it Big Data if it weren’t … huge. But at the root of all this is human endeavor. With human endeavor comes fallibility.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Kris Giswold (KG): My journey in finance began with my love of puzzles and numbers. I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Numbers could tell a story, they could explain behaviours and predict the future.

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Finance Leadership Auditing Math 52

Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how after a few mentors in China suggested that Danqin look into private banking and wealth management (as they felt it better suited her than her initial accounting major), she began Googling potential career paths in China but instead came across the CFP Board website and immediately connected with the description (..)

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Math Education Communication Planning 52

PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. PYMNTS: Can you give me some personnel growth numbers? SigOpt now helps optimize fraud detection and investments like beer brewing and even the manufacturing of synthetic rhino horns.

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Math Startups Manufacturing Advertising 67

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

According to CNBC-TV18 , the new stores would take the total number of Walmart locations in India to 70. We are planning to take the total number of stores to 70 by 2022. So you can do the math. Walmart India revealed that it is investing about $500 million to open 47 new stores by 2022.

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Math eCommerce B2B Investments 51

CFO Talks

MARCH 28, 2023

When I was studying towards my qualifications for university, I had to choose subjects which were in line with medicine, which was maths, biology and chemistry, but somewhere along the line I ended up doing accountancy and I then finished college in 1994.

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Math CFO Communication Accounting 52

PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

In an interview with PYMNTS, Metromile CEO Dan Preston noted that any number of industries, including insurance, are moving toward a digital-first mindset. As Preston told PYMNTS, the math is fairly simple: “People just drove less, so they ended up saving.” ” Looking Ahead.

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Math Budgeting Construction Leverage 82

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There's a number of different models … We're not in the business of picking winners and losers. Visa noted, too, that debit spending has been high in the wake of repeated waves of stimulus payments deposited directly onto debit cards or in bank accounts. We see our job as enablement no matter what the model is.”

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Math Entertainment Economics Budgeting 82

Jedox Finance

JULY 6, 2021

A friendly warning: This involves some math, which is necessary to explain how these metrics work. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. intermittent demand/sales data).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Instead, it will dump a massive number of them out of their paying jobs, at the worst moment in economic history. And, he noted, moving to a mix of part-time and full-time drivers doesn’t meaningfully change the math - they would still be cutting over 900,000 drivers and would only end up with about 280,000 jobs total.

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Math Manufacturing Numbers Economics 76

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

However, a highly effective vaccine that doesn’t require specialized transportation or storage might change the math on distributing the substance more widely and quickly. PYMNTS also found that a fair number – 37.9 That, in turn, could greatly shorten the period between the pandemic and the post -pandemic.

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Transportation Math Entertainment Planning 92

PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

What’s more, Amazon said Fire Kids Edition tablets are the number one best-selling kids tablet in the US. In a press release the Seattle, Amazon said the new offerings bring Alexa-specific features and content to Amazon’s FreeTime and FreeTime Unlimited services.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s not wise fighting about math with MIT students, but the gang at Uber is giving it a go. An MIT study released last week indicates that Uber drivers, on average, are making less than minimum wage. Like, a lot less — the median pretax profit was $3.37 per hour, according to the survey.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The fifth annual Breakthrough Prize awards were doled out yesterday to researchers in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences and math. Hosted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, the Breakthrough Prize awards celebrate the year’s biggest achievements in the sciences.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Into the blue: The number of men’s jeans Amazon sold over the holidays could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. If we’re doing the math right, that’s nearly 4 million devices and 3 million toys — in one day!). As for other items that Amazon sold, here are some stats Amazon shared with the Huffington Post. million cookies.

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Retail Math eCommerce Sales 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

In other words, some of their identity attributes can help them attain housing, a job or credit – but that identity might not be very good: That is, it might be bad data, inaccurate data or data filled with bad math. But he said that version of biometrics has suffered a number of limitations, particularly around making the technology useful.

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Or maybe you just rely on your bank account balance to do the math for you. They mean well, but when it comes to explaining what they’re doing, it’s all jargon and numbers. Sure, it worked when you first started. But with additional clients and throughput, things quickly got out of hand. Sometimes accountants live in their own world.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Instead, it will dump a massive number of them out of their paying jobs, at the worst moment in economic history. And, he noted, moving to a mix of part-time and full-time drivers doesn’t meaningfully change the math - they would still be cutting over 900,000 drivers and would only end up with about 280,000 jobs total.

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Math Manufacturing Numbers Economics 56

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Then, Krakaris does some math on the backend to find out where merchants should send their products. Krakaris saw a particular opportunity in serving marketplaces beyond Amazon through retailers like Walmart, eBay and Jet. To use the platform, merchants connect their different sales channels and import their products.

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eCommerce Math Leverage Retail 89

PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

We actually automatically unsubscribe parents from a class if their kid hasn’t attended in more than a certain number of sessions,” Nathoo said. We’re exploring bundles by topic, so math for age 8, [for example]. … You would subscribe to a certain number of hours within a particular topic,” Nathoo said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

But to steal a line from Shakespeare, “the readiness is all” – and a significant number of merchants have yet to meet the challenges of commerce done mostly online. Data can help merchants adjust their payment flows to optimize the customer experience and, in the process, grow revenues. Getting Ready – And Getting Onto Platforms.

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Math Reconciliations Sales Communication 102

PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

It is good at drawing in eyeballs, but turning eyeballs into dollars isn’t always so easy — unless one has a truly unfathomable number of eyeballs to call a base (like Google or Facebook) so as to make advertising an extremely lucrative enterprise. Social media has a basic business model problem.

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