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• Why Does Excel Survive in Finance Departments?

  FinanceFinancial ReportingFinancial strategy

  Enterprise SoftwareSoftwareSoftware infrastructure (oper sys, mgmt tools)CFO

  Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet application has been around since the mid-1980s, and it’s often been derided for being out of date; as in, “before we upgraded to this new business intelligence platform, we were still using Excel spreadsheets.” In many finance departments, however...

• Boards Embrace Diversely Skilled CFOs

  Business IntelligenceLeadership, CareerFinance

  CFO

  As the CFO’s role has expanded beyond financial reporting to become the CEO’s strategic partner, U.S. organizations took off the blinders that had kept them oblivious to CFO candidates outside of the traditional accounting and auditing career path. Evidence of CFOs coming from wider professional experience gets stronger every year. For example...

• Understanding 'Investing' and 'Trading'

  Business IntelligenceFinanceFinancial Reporting

  Financial strategyBusiness Intelligence PerspectivesEntrepreneur

  Words such as investing, trading and stock market are constant buzzwords and people often get attracted by the lucrative monetary returns guaranteed. However, quite often people end up losing their hard-earned money as they do not have complete understanding of the platform they are using. Millennials out of the lot seem to be...

• Taking Stock: 10 Terms Critical To Understanding Stock Compensation

  FinanceFinancial ReportingFinancial strategy

  Compensation, BenefitsEntrepreneur

  Companies often use stock compensation to attract and retain talent without having to overpay in cash. Plus, tying an employee’s personal wealth to the success of the business aligns incentives in a powerful way. The same dynamic applies to the employee - they’re investing in the business and...

• How One Man Made $700 Million Driving for Uber - The Story of Ryan Graves

  Business IntelligenceLeadership, CareerFinance

  Financial ReportingFinancial strategyBusiness Intelligence PerspectivesEntrepreneur

  Don’t let the title deceive you. Ryan Graves didn’t build his wealth through a ride-sharing side hustle. Rather, it was a tweet. Let’s go all the back to January 5, 2010. At the time Uber was less than a year old. And, then...

• How Smoothie King’s Thomas Kim Helps Chain’s Transformation Across The Board

  Business IntelligenceExecutive ProgramsExecutive Summits

  Executive briefingsLeadership, CareerFinanceFinancial ReportingFinancial strategyBusiness Intelligence PerspectivesChief Executive

  Smoothie King has been in transition for the last several years-under new leadership, completely revamping its menu, moving its headquarters 500 miles, surviving and coming out of Covid, and now pivoting to capitalize on a doubling of revenues over the last few years, to about $600 million in annual systemwide sales. Thomas Kim has been...

• Crypto Banking And Decentralized Finance - A New Frontier In Financial Services

  FinanceFinancial ReportingFinancial strategy

  CryptocurrencyForbes

  Cryptocurrencies heralded as the future of finance are finally catching up to the centuries-old idea of making money from money. The global low-yield environment is luring professional and amateur investors to allocate billions of dollars into high-yielding crypto banking products. The emerging digital currency market is...

• Stop Labelling Negotiations as Win-Win or Win-Lose

  Business IntelligenceLeadership, CareerFinance

  Financial ReportingFinancial strategyCollaborationNetworking, personalSales/MarketingInsead

  Too many people have an either naïve or fatalist view of these terms, which have become so misunderstood that we should perhaps even discard them. Negotiators often describe their negotiations as win-win or win-lose. These terms have become ubiquitous and it is hard to find any negotiator who has not heard of them. Despite...

• Bezos Pockets $20 Billion While Zuckerberg Loses $29 Billion

  Business IntelligenceLeadership, CareerFinance

  Financial ReportingFinancial strategyBusiness Intelligence PerspectivesCEO Today

  Mark Zuckerberg saw $29 billion fall from his overall net worth on Thursday as Meta’s stock experienced a record one-day plunge. Meanwhile, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos pocked an additional $20 billion following the e-commerce giant’s blockbuster earnings. Meta’s stock plunged 26%, erasing over...

• Q&A: Broadridge's Kevin Moran on the role of digital labor in financial services

  Business IntelligenceFinanceFinancial Reporting

  Financial strategyJob TrendsEnterprise SoftwareIT Services and SupportSoftwareSoftware infrastructure (oper sys, mgmt tools)VirtualizationBusiness Intelligence PerspectivesSmartBrief

  Financial firms are increasingly turning to digital labor to keep up with surging workloads and adapt to workplace changes brought by the coronavirus pandemic. Kevin Moran, global head of business process outsourcing at Broadridge, discusses the role digital labor is playing in...