article thumbnail

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. Leaders in finance are most successful when they have skills in communication, quantitative analysis, financial planning, and team building.

article thumbnail

How to Get a Business Loan

Michigan CFO

When it comes to risk management for business owners, an unsecured business loan has multiple advantages over a secured business loan. The Merits of a Secured Business Loan. By definition, secured business loans require collateral. Despite this factor, there are merits to secured business financing.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

CFOs: Do you drive returns that exceed the cost of capital?

Future CFO

Yet CFOs who model their costs around the differentiating factors unique to their organisations secure on average a greater excess ROIC versus those who focus on extrinsic factors, Boldt pointed out. In many industries, competition for organic growth has intensified, leading many organisations to secure growth through M&A.

article thumbnail

Barclays Taps Accelerator Graduate For Risk Simulation

PYMNTS

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.

article thumbnail

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?