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You Can’t Regulate What You Don’t Understand

O'Reilly on Data

Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?” If we want prosocial outcomes, we need to design and report on the metrics that explicitly aim for those outcomes and measure the extent to which they have been achieved. If every company had a different way of reporting its finances, it would be impossible to regulate them.

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How Private Equity Firms Can Manage Uncertainty With Scenario Modeling

Jedox

Distressed debt urgently needs financing; and digital and automation investments can strengthen resilience and agility. In the face of unprecedented uncertainty, the question is how to quickly evaluate risk, opportunities and competitively allocate capital. In the face of uncertainty, investor relations are paramount.

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Operational Finance in the Age of Covid-19: Time to Change the Basics?

Jet Global

Covid-19 has had a hugely disruptive impact on operational finance. The term ‘operational finance’ encapsulates the critical activities associated with order to cash, procure to pay, fixed assets, close, consolidation, and reporting. It also decreases the risk of errors by eliminating disjointed, manual processes.

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How CFOs Can Lead With Foresight

Jedox

The new normal introduced new risks from employee health and safety, supply chain stress and government mandates – all with working capital implications. The unprecedented uncertainty forced companies to make critical decisions within compressed time frames. This placed an acute spotlight on planning agility. Conclusion.

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CDW to Acquire Sirius Computer Solutions for $2.5 billion

CDW Research Hub

Timing, Approvals and Financing. CDW has committed financing for the transaction. However, CDW has not completed its reconciliation of Sirius’ non-GAAP financial measures to its non-GAAP financial measures, and any future reconciliation may be material. Forward-Looking Statements.

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From Triage to Recovery: The New F&A Journey

Jet Global

The COVID-19 crisis has catapulted many businesses into triage mode, with finance and accounting teams scrambling to shore up company finances in the face of an economic downturn. F&A should be monitoring receivables closely, understanding which customers may be at risk, and taking an aggressive stance on collections.

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Covid Data: An anomalous blip, or the new normal?

Cloudera

Insurance and finance are two industries that rely on measuring risk with historical data models. To facilitate risk modeling in this new normal, agility and flexibility is required. Data Variety. This will only become more important as we move into 2021 and a post-pandemic new normal.