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Finance vs. Accounting

CFO Simplified

In publicly traded companies, the CFO is also responsible for the company’s compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and regulations. You can’t improve a company by moving numbers around on the income statement or balance sheet. A seasoned CFO will address how well a business earns and spends its cash. .

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Barclays Taps Accelerator Graduate For Risk Simulation

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The simulation technology enables the automated recognition of a significant event in quantitative analysis, enabling entities to simulate more complex scenarios. In its announcement, Barclays explained that agent-based modeling differs from regression-based models, which rely on historical behavior data analysis. “By

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Transcript: Savita Subramanian

Barry Ritholtz

So it’s got this math angle where it, you know, it’s all numbers, but then there’s this behavioral angle and psychological angle where, you know, it’s, it’s kind of a fun problem to tackle. It’s kind of a silly number, but people are going to think you’re smart or dumb based on that number.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

When I was at GMO, we — a colleague and I ran a sort of quantitative analysis of speculative bubbles and we crunched, produced my system date 10,000 years of data of various commodity markets, and real estate markets, and stock markets around the world. And then I thought why wasn’t the security, subprime securities?