CFO Talks

MAY 14, 2025

Running the Numbers Without Running from the Truth No one sees the cracks forming in a businesss foundation quite like the CFO. Before the headlines, before the boardroom fallout, the numbers tell a story – and its your responsibility to make sure its the truth. You see the numbers before anyone else.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Beyond Numbers: Measuring Success in the New Age of Finance Imagine running a company where profit isn’t the only measure of success, and the focus shifts to include all areas of impact—from the well-being of employees to environmental responsibility. Final Thoughts: A Broader View of Success Success isn’t just about the numbers.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 6, 2025

Hand Over the Numbers and Focus on What Matters Lets be honest, handling finances isnt everyones favourite job. Instead of struggling with numbers, spreadsheets, and financial rules, you can get an expert to handle it for you. Finance isnt just about adding up numbers. What if you didnt have to do it all yourself?

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CFO Thought Leader

MAY 22, 2025

She champions investing in teams, reward structures, and technology that convert raw numbers into immediate decisions, citing alerts that flag ingredient price spikes the next day. Her approach blends operational empathy, data discipline, and candid leadership inspired by Radical Candor.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 27, 2025

Numbers alone cant tell a story unless theyre accurate and well-organized, he tells us, underscoring his belief that precise, actionable information fuels effective narratives. By immersing himself in diverse functions, he honed both analytical and communication skillscritical for strategic decision-making.

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CFO Dive

AUGUST 27, 2024

Every transformation should include a robust and detailed business case with defensible and realistic numbers, writes ISG’s Jon Lightman.

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CFO Dive

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The federal overseer of audit firms last year doubled the number of enforcement orders compared with 2021 and imposed record penalties.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

Not surprisingly, the company listings are across the world, and I look at the breakdown of companies, by number and market cap, by geography: As you can see, the market cap of US companies at the start of 2025 accounted for roughly 49% of the market cap of global stocks, up from 44% at the start of 2024 and 42% at the start of 2023.

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Corporate Finance Valuation Finance Numbers 120

CFO Dive

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Once relegated to number crunching, modern CFOs typically work with chief information officers to help finance and keep score on tech projects.

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CFO Dive

JUNE 20, 2023

The survey’s findings dovetail with a number of recent reports that are revealing flagging business and consumer confidence in a number of corners of the economy.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2025

As the number of potential applications of AI proliferated, thus increasing the market for AI products and services, another part of the story was also being put into play. The Value Effect Now that my AI story is in the open, I will use it to revisit my valuation of Nvidia, and incorporate my new AI story in that valuation.

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CFO Dive

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Finance chiefs expect AI to shrink the number of roles in the finance function by 2026, Datarails found in a survey.

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Finance Numbers 286

CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Costco lowered prices on a number of its store brand items as high food prices have become a hot button issue in the presidential election.

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CFO Dive

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The finance chief has long been more than a routine number-cruncher. For Gen Z, the route to the CFO chair will likely better reflect the role’s complexity.

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CFO Dive

JULY 17, 2024

The number of investor activist campaigns this proxy season rose to 691, a 2.4% increase compared with 2023, according to EY.

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CFO Dive

MAY 20, 2022

Employers can't just take one approach toward this issue but there are a number of ways to adjust old structures to new work realities.

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Numbers 305

CFO Dive

JUNE 11, 2024

Fed officials in a meeting Wednesday will likely downgrade from three to two their median projection for the number of quarter-point cuts in the federal funds rate this year, according to futures traders and economists.

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CFO Dive

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Women tend to give shorter, less upbeat and clearer presentations and to include more numbers and fewer euphemisms in earnings calls, according to Kate Suslava of Bucknell University.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Kaspersky says financial phishing attacks are rapidly increasing as cybercriminals continuously evolve and adapt their tactics, with the number of attacks rising by 41% year over year. Thailand logged the highest number of financial phishing attacks at 141,258, followed by Indonesia with 48,439.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 18, 2025

The challenge in writing How NOT to Invest was organizing a large number of ideas, many of which were only loosely connected, into something coherent, understandable, and, most importantly, readable. Bad Numbers : 4. It is March 18th! Publication day is finally here! Investing is simple but hard, and therein lies our challenge.

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CFO Dive

MARCH 25, 2022

While many financial executives have made big investments in cloud computing to support remote work in the pandemic, a growing number of large companies are now signaling their interest in the metaverse by filing related trademark applications.

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Numbers Investments 294

CFO Dive

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Since the fading of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of U.S. employers have nudged workers from their homes back to the office.

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Numbers 260

CFO Dive

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The proposed changes to lease accounting guidance are relatively narrow, but they are one of a number of standard updates that FASB has in the works.

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Accounting Numbers 286

CFO Dive

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

While their numbers are rising, female CFOs are still relatively rare. Women hold only about 16% of the top finance seats at Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies.

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Finance Numbers 286

Global Finance

MARCH 2, 2025

If we think about it, a managerif facing pressure to beat an analyst forecast, or beat last years earnings, or wanting a particular bonushas enough flexibility in the accounting rules to manage those numbers while staying within the rules. You manage your numbers. So, how are we going to track the slippery slope? Horton: Heres one.

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CFO Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The California company is one of a growing number of firms pivoting to cut costs through layoffs, real estate consolidation and other measures.

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CFO Numbers 269

CFO Dive

MAY 4, 2023

SVB lost a number of employees following its acquisition by First Citizens. Some M&A targets may not be the best fits.

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CFO Dive

MAY 24, 2024

A growing number of companies in the U.S. and elsewhere have turned to digital assets as an alternative to conventional currencies, according to Deloitte.

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CFO Dive

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As an increasing number of economists forecast a recession, financial leaders are contemplating hiring freezes, even as businesses describe their teams as "understaffed."

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CFO Dive

MARCH 5, 2024

A growing number of states are raising minimum wages: Delaware, Illinois and Rhode Island are expected to raise their levels to $15 in 2025, according to NELP.

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