2025

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PwC cuts 2% of US workforce, citing ‘historically low’ attrition

CFO Dive

This week the Big Four firm shed 1,500 workers in its assurance and tax units — including accountants — layoffs that aren’t tied to AI, PwC said.

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Unmatched Excellence: SAP North America’s ERP Implementation and Support Services

Navigator SAP

Part of why so many businesses choose an SAP ERP solution is that SAP is robust and widely supported. SAP invented ERP, and it still dominates the space. Because it is so commonly used, businesses served by SAP North America never have to go it alone; there is a robust community of consultants and third-party support service providers that can assist with rollout and post-implementation support.

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FP&A’s Scope: What Is In And What Is Out?

Fpanda Club

As FP&A professional, how often do you feel that you do something you shouldnt? FP&A is an evolving function that falls into the intersection of finance, operations and strategy aimed at driving better decision-making trough insightful analysis, forecasting and goal setting. Having unique access to data about all the activities throughout an organization, it is not uncommon that FP&A teams are often asked to perform tasks which are not necessarily aligned with their core objectives.

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“Nobody Knows Anything,” Wall Street Strategist Edition

Barry Ritholtz

A regular theme around these parts is “ Nobody Knows Anything. ” Specifically, nobody knows what will happen in the future. This is true about equity and bond markets, specific company stocks, and economic data series. We do not know which geopolitical hot spot will erupt in turmoil; we have no idea where or when the next natural disaster will hit.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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Buy the Dip: The Draw and Dangers of Contrarian Investing!

Musings on Markets

When markets are in free fall, there is a great deal of advice that is meted out to investors, and one is to just buy the dip , i.e., buy beaten down stocks, in the hope that they will recover, or the entire market, if it is down. "Buying the dip" falls into a broad group of investment strategies that can be classified as "contrarian", where investors act in contrast to what the rest of the market is doing at the time, buying (selling) when the vast majority are selling (buying) , and it has bee

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The changing landscape of finance leadership

Future CFO

As with anything in the world, the finance leadership landscape has been evolving especially following the COVID-19 pandemic which brought about drastic changes into the market. The finance function has been handling shifts here and there and chief finance officers have time and again strove to find the balance as they now work as strategic advisors to the C-suite team to bring in specific strategies for innovation.

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From Emotion To Logic: 6 Questions To Help Clients Navigate Market-Related Fears Productively

Nerd's Eye View

During periods of market volatility, it's common for financial advisors to receive calls from clients who are nervous about what a steep market decline might mean for their portfolio and long-term financial goals. In these moments, an advisor's first instinct might be to take a logic-based approach – citing long-term market trends and encouraging the client to stay invested.

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1075: Mastering Recurring Revenue: The Next Chapter Unfolds | Kevin Rhodes, CFO, Extreme Networks

CFO Thought Leader

Kevin Rhodes recalls one of the earliest lessons in his finance career. I wanted to understand the business, he tells us, describing his decision to ride along with a Waste Management truck crew. Clipboard in hand, he meticulously recorded stop distances, tonnage collected, and time spent at each location. By the end of the week, he had compiled a customer-by-customer profitability analysis.

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CS, CMA inclusion in income tax audits may hinge on EY curriculum review

CFO News

Amid an ongoing debate over whether CMA and CS should be included as accountants in the new Income Tax Bill and allowed to conduct tax audits a role currently reserved for Cas the Lok Sabha's Select Committee has likely tasked EY with reviewing the curriculums of these professional courses. Based on the findings, the committee will likely decide who can conduct tax audits, examining the curricula to assess whether professionals from the other two bodies are qualified for this role.

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Your Accounting Expertise Will Only Get You So Far: The New Way To Lead

Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. But if you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner, and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top. 🗻 What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level. The higher you go, the more your effectiveness depends on how you connect, adapt, and communicate.

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Cash Flow Management: 6 Best Practices for Small & Medium Businesses

CFO Selections

Never take your eyes off of the cash flow because its the life blood of the business. - Richard Branson Staying on top of your cash flow is vital to running a small business smoothly. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce cites that cash flow problems are responsible for 82% of business failures. Cash flow is critical to the survival and success of your business.

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CFOs signal bigger hiring role amid talent shortage, Deloitte finds

CFO Dive

Finance chiefs are increasingly involved in staffing their departments — effectively acting as the chief human resources officer for finance, the Big Four accounting and consulting firm asserts.

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Understanding the "GROW" in GROW with SAP

Navigator SAP

GROW with SAP is not a product. It is a journey. It is a framework for helping a business digitally transform and streamline operations with the industry-leading SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition enterprise resource planning solution (ERP).

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Confessions of an FP&A-holic: 7 Lessons I Wish I Knew Earlier

Fpanda Club

Hi everyone! My name is Anna, and I am an FP&A-holic. Yes, I said that, I am addicted to financial planning and analysis. I am excited when all the checks in my financial models are colored green, and I get thrilled out of digging into data and finding insights that lead to better business decisions. After 15+ years in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Ive learned some hard truths things I wish someone had told me earlier in my career.

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The Hidden Science Behind Why Finance Teams Resist Change—And How to Fix It

Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP

The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.

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A Spectacularly Underappreciated 15 Years

Barry Ritholtz

We have no idea how good we had it. Lets consider the returns data from the period post-Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and then unpack what it might mean. Starting January 1, 2010, the S&P 500 generated a total return (with dividends reinvested) of 566.8% , or 13.3% per year from the start of 2010 through the end of Q1 2025. The Nasdaq 100 has nearly doubled that.

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DeepSeek crashes the AI Party: Story Break, Change or Shift?

Musings on Markets

I am going to start this post with a confession that my knowledge of the architecture and mechanics of AI are pedestrian and that there will be things that I don't get right in this post. That said, DeepSeek's abrupt entry into the AI conversation has the potential to change the AI narrative, and as it does, it may also change the storylines for the many companies that have spent the last two years benefiting from the AI hype.

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Forecasting Future Fraud: Q&A With Joanne Horton Of Warwick Business School

Global Finance

Global Finance: Can you briefly describe what your model does? Joanne Horton: Yes. Weve got what we think is a rather exciting model, which we describe in a working paper, that helps forecast in advance the likelihood that a firm will go on to commit accounting fraud. Whats the likelihood that fraud will take place in the future? Theres lots of motivation, obviously, because a lot of fraud takes place: few cases, but each one is very expensive.

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Financial alchemy: How CFOs can lead the tech revolution in their organisations

Future CFO

At the FutureCFO Conference series, organised by Cxociety, finance leaders in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand ranked automation and degitalisation (80%), investing in talent and employee development (58%) and continuous innovation (47%) as the top three strategies most important to sustainable growth in 2024. Source: Data collected during the FutureCFO Conference series in 2024, Cxociety Research Coming into 2025, as finance leaders face mounting pressure to do more

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Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle

Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP

Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.

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From Emotion To Logic: 6 Questions To Help Clients Work Through Market-Related Fears Productively

Nerd's Eye View

During periods of market volatility, it's common for financial advisors to receive calls from clients who are nervous about what a steep market decline might mean for their portfolio and long-term financial goals. In these moments, an advisor's first instinct might be to take a logic-based approach – citing long-term market trends and encouraging the client to stay invested.

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1069: Driving Value Through Agile Finance Leadership | Lior Maza, CFO, Priority Software

CFO Thought Leader

Early in his career, Lior Maza chose to immerse himself in smaller, venture-backed startups rather than large enterprisesa move that exposed him to a range of responsibilities, from fundraising and recruiting to crisis management. When youre in a small team, Maza tells us, you end up doing everything, and thats where the agility mindset really takes root.

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New 10-year TIPS gets real yield of 2.243%, highest for this term in 16 years

Tips Watch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The Treasury’s auction of $20 billion in a new 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security — CUSIP 91282CML2 — generated a real yield to maturity of 2.243%, the highest for this term at auction since January 2009.

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Why spreadsheets aren’t going away anytime soon

CFO Dive

Spreadsheets are not just a tool of the past; they will be a vital component of the future of finance, Gartner’s Mike Helsel writes.

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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The Ben Affleck accounting shortage hack

CFO Dive

“The Accountant” movie from 2016 is loved by many CPAs. Will the new sequel and the franchise’s drama help attract more young people to the accounting profession?

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The budget-friendly case for a use-it-or-lose-it return-to-office policy

CFO Dive

Top-line leadership unwilling to be strict about RTO policies can leave a company still paying for office space even as its workforce is effectively remote, a workplace analytics expert says.

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Inflation expected to surge to 7.3% in a year, fueled by tariff worry

CFO Dive

Consumer sentiment has slumped this year even as recent “hard data” reveal stable prices and robust hiring.

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KPMG rolls out AI-powered tool for mitigating tariff risks

CFO Dive

The new tool can help with complex analyses that play a role in mitigation strategies a CFO might choose to adopt, according to KPMG’s Andrew Siciliano.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.