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How CFOs can keep shipping costs under control: Contracts, fees, timing
Finance chiefs need to find “consultative” partners that will work to eliminate waste and drive down transport costs, experts say.
By Chris Gaetano • May 13, 2024 -
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Inflation to slow, settling close to Fed target in 2025: Wolters Kluwer
The forecast that price pressures will fall aligns with a 13% decline this month in sentiment among consumers, who fuel roughly 70% of economic growth.
By Jim Tyson • May 10, 2024 -
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TrendlineCompensation: solving the cost-talent puzzle
In today’s strong labor market, CFOs leery of raising wages find creative ways to find and retain key employees.
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Fed likely to hold rates high before cutting twice in Q4: Conference Board
Central bank officials this week have signaled that strength in hiring and economic growth may prompt the Fed to keep interest rates high longer than previously expected.
By Jim Tyson • May 8, 2024 -
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Tenants retain upper hand as US office vacancy hits fresh high: CBRE
Many office landlords are continuing to offer tenants generous concessions as hybrid work and other factors weigh on demand.
By Maura Webber Sadovi • May 7, 2024 -
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Generative AI enables small accounting firms to challenge big ones: AICPA
Accountants should respond to the rapid pace of generative AI adoption by embracing it and delving into experimentation, the AICPA said.
By Jim Tyson • May 7, 2024 -
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Only 34% of firms deploy safeguards against generative AI threats: Splunk
Generative AI gives cyberattackers an edge over cyber-defenders, according to security experts surveyed by Splunk.
By Jim Tyson • May 6, 2024 -
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OpinionWhy collections need more CFO love in today’s cash-hungry market
With higher rates and an uncertain economy, many companies are paying invoices late because they don’t know when capital will be available next, Capchase’s Przemek Gotfryd writes.
By Przemek Gotfryd • May 3, 2024 -
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Peloton cuts jobs, searches for new CEO amid financial turmoil
“We made some very tough decisions, and while we firmly believe these actions are the right thing to do for the business, cuts like this are painful,” CFO Liz Coddington said.
By Alexei Alexis • May 2, 2024 -
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US inches forward on real-time payments: report
“Real-time payments are still in their infancy in the U.S., accounting for only a 1.5% share of the total payments volume in 2023,” according to a report by ACI Worldwide.
By James Pothen • May 2, 2024 -
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Auditoria.AI’s ‘human-in-the-loop’ option targets automation-wary finance teams
When it comes to new technologies, CEO Rohit Gupta sees CFOs and their finance teams as “fast followers” rather than early adopters.
By Maura Webber Sadovi • May 1, 2024 -
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Fed holds main rate steady, citing lack of progress against inflation
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that the central bank will likely need to sustain current borrowing costs longer than it had expected early this year.
By Jim Tyson • May 1, 2024 -
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Amazon clinching bigger, longer cloud deals after AI boost: CFO
Amazon is the latest tech giant whose hefty AI spending has been rewarded by Wall Street in the current earnings season. Meta has been an exception.
By Alexei Alexis • May 1, 2024 -
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Wage gains, inflation undercut Fed forecast for three rate cuts this year
A report of rising wages prompted traders in interest rate futures to dial down bets on reductions in the Federal Reserve’s main interest rate.
By Jim Tyson • April 30, 2024 -
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Meta falls in AI reckoning as Microsoft, Google soar
Investors rewarded AI spending strategies at Microsoft and Google but rebuffed Meta, whose stock plummeted.
By Alexei Alexis • April 30, 2024 -
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Internal audit leaders need to hire more tech-savvy accountants: IIA
Companies hiring for internal audit need to prepare for disruption from new technology such as artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, IIA said.
By Jim Tyson • April 29, 2024 -
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FedNow pricing aimed at avoiding market disruption
The Federal Reserve aimed to “not upset the marketplace as a second mover” when it set fees for the new instant payments system last year, a Fed official said Wednesday.
By James Pothen , Lynne Marek • April 29, 2024 -
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Rising geopolitical worries, war drive CFO hedging, US Bank says
The threat of geopolitical tensions is a growing worry for finance leaders while concerns about inflation have eased, a U.S. Bank study found.
By Maura Webber Sadovi • April 26, 2024 -
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‘Quantum advantage’ may boost businesses $2 trillion by 2035: McKinsey
The federal government has stepped up investment in quantum technologies, more than doubling research and development spending since 2019.
By Jim Tyson • April 26, 2024 -
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Companies cut salary budget increases to 3.6%, trim promotions: Mercer
Plans for slower gains to salaries align with Thursday data showing that economic growth slowed to just 1.6% last quarter, far less than expected.
By Jim Tyson • April 25, 2024 -
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Former Chuck E. Cheese exec takes Dave & Buster’s CFO seat
The change comes as Dave & Buster's looks to drive growth through a dining experience overhaul, among other initiatives.
By Alexei Alexis • April 25, 2024 -
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More M&A players hold back stay-bonus ‘dry powder,’ WTW says
Despite a recent uptick in mergers and acquisitions, some buyers are nonetheless growing more guarded about tapping their retention bonus budgets.
By Maura Webber Sadovi • April 24, 2024 -
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FTC approves nationwide noncompete ban
In a difference from the proposed rule, senior executives subject to a noncompete agreement previously will remain subject to it; the ban will apply to executives going forward.
By Robert Freedman • April 24, 2024 -
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PE-backed Kent Outdoors seats new CFO, hunts for Kona Bicycles buyer
Rob Otto is joining the Utah-based company as it puts a beloved mountain bike maker on the block and pivots to focus on water sports.
By Maura Webber Sadovi • April 23, 2024 -
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Stubborn inflation to keep rates ‘higher for longer’: Fannie Mae
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.
By Jim Tyson • April 23, 2024 -
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ADM’s suspended CFO to resign amid accounting scandal
Vikram Luthar — who was placed on a forced leave in January — will assist the company and be paid his base salary until his resignation is effective on Sept. 30.
By Maura Webber Sadovi • April 23, 2024
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