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 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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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 10, 2025

Here’s the previous episode: Inside the Numbers: What Does Consumer Spending Data Tell Us About the Future of Business?

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CFO News

JULY 11, 2025

In this article, Rohit Agarwal, Director, Finance, Vertex Ventures SE/India, highlights how startup finance teams must evolve from basic accounting to strategic leadership. By embedding governance, embracing digital transformation, and enabling business growth, finance can become the true catalyst for sustainable success.

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CFO Dive

JULY 8, 2025

The outplacement firm suspects the number is higher. Only 75 job cuts by U.S.-based based employers in the first half of the year were explicitly attributed to AI, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 5, 2025

In this episode of the "Credit on the Go" podcast, sponsored by the Trade Credit and Liquidity Management newsletter, host Bob Shultz welcomes Paul Hill, CEO of JSI Analytics, to explore how shifting consumer spending trends are influencing the financial performance of companies across the United States.

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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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Budgeting Numbers 342

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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Auditing Numbers 341

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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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 Numbers Finance 119

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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Valuation Numbers Marketing Investments 134

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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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 6, 2025

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent report finds that the number of SEC-registered RIAs, the assets that they manage, and the number of clients they serve all increased between 2023 and 2024 and suggests the industry is robust across the size spectrum, (..)

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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

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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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

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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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

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

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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CFO Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

The breaches resulted in a number of lawsuits that were eventually combined into a single class action complaint before Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The judge has scheduled a Dec. 3 hearing to consider the settlement for final approval, according to a Friday order.

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CFO Dive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The nation’s two largest asset management firms supported fewer environmental and social proposals in 2023, as companies vote on a record number of ESG proposals.

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CFO Dive

APRIL 23, 2024

Economists have marked down their estimates for the number of quarter-point cuts to the federal funds rate from as many as six to one or two.

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CFO Dive

MARCH 18, 2025

Now a rising number of states are proposing similar legislation. Minnesota lawmakers previously drew opposition to proposed rules opening alternative paths to CPA licensure.

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