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    Don’t Worry About Absenteeism: Leadership Expert

    Forget sick days: Research shows “presenteeism” — showing up for work but not performing at full capacity due to sickness, lack of engagement, or distractions — costs business 10 times more than absenteeism.While workers say they take an average of only four sick days a year, they also confess to...

    By • Jan. 10, 2019
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    Ford Europe to Cut Thousands of Jobs in Turnaround Drive

    Ford Motor Co. announced plans to cut thousands of jobs, discontinue unprofitable vehicle lines, and exit markets as part of a major effort to restructure its operations in Europe.“We are taking decisive action to transform the Ford business in Europe,” Steven Armstrong, group vice president, Eur...

    By William Sprouse • Jan. 10, 2019
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    Top 5 stories from CFO.com

    From CPA licensure changes to undergoing a digital transformation, these are the most popular stories CFOs are reading. 

    By CFO.com staff
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    Retailers’ Financial Cycle Times: The Hare Beats the Tortoise

    In today’s connected world, where every company has access to similar information and resources, agility becomes a key source of competitive advantage. Acting faster and working smarter have replaced, at least in part, unique products and services, particularly in retail.My colleagues and I have ...

    By Joe Perfetti • Jan. 10, 2019
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    World Bank: ‘The Ride Could Get Bumpier’

    While the World Bank thinks the chances of a recession this year in the United States are still small, the title of its January Global Economic Prospects Report, “Darkening Skies,” made plain its belief about where the global and U.S. economies are headed.In the best-case scenario, that direction...

    By • Jan. 9, 2019
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    Hertz to Pay $16M to Settle With SEC Over Accounting Problems

    Hertz Global Holdings agreed to pay a fine of $16 million to settle civil charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission over financial misstatements, including $235 million in reported income that didn’t comply with generally accepted accounting principals.“From at least February 2012 throu...

    By William Sprouse • Jan. 9, 2019
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    Metric of the Month: Finance FTEs Per $1B in Revenue

    The number of people it takes to keep the finance wheel in continuous motion can vary widely from organization to organization. But when you calculate the ratio of finance team members per $1 billion in revenue, then compare that figure across multiple organizations in multiple industries, the re...

    By • Jan. 8, 2019
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    5 Hot Trends in Workforce Class Actions

    The prosecution of workplace class-action litigation by plaintiffs’ attorneys — often posing unique “bet-the-company” risks for employers — continues to escalate, as it has over the past decade.As has become readily apparent in the #MeToo era, an adverse judgment in a class action can eviscerate ...

    By Gerald Maatman, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, and Partner • Jan. 8, 2019
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    Government Shutdown Drags Into Week Three

    The partial shutdown of the federal government dragged into its 17th day on Monday with no end in sight. It is the third-longest government shutdown in U.S. history.President Donald Trump continues to insist any deal to end the shutdown must include money to construct a barrier along the U.S.-Mex...

    By William Sprouse • Jan. 7, 2019
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    December Jobs Report Assuages Investors

    The U.S. economy added 312,000 jobs in December versus 176,000 expected, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the most jobs added since last February and the second-best month for job creation under the Trump Administration.Average hourly pay increased 3.2% yea...

    By William Sprouse • Jan. 4, 2019
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    China, US Trade War a Duel of Brains and Brawn

    In England, Germany and some other parts of the world, there’s an unusual sport where competitors face off in alternating rounds of chess and boxing. Getting checkmated is the same thing as getting knocked out.I find this sport, called chessboxing, a combination of brains and brawn that’s analogo...

    By Jason Gerlis • Jan. 4, 2019
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    Square Hires Blizzard’s Amrita Ahuja as CFO

    Blizzard Entertainment CFO Amrita Ahuja is leaving the maker of “World of Warcraft” to join fintech company Square as finance chief.Square said Thursday that Ahuja will start her new job later this month, replacing Sarah Friar, whose resignation in October surprised investors.Ahuja was promoted t...

    By Matthew Heller • Jan. 4, 2019
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    Will the Stock Market Reveal Trump’s Fate?

    Those who want President Trump to stay in office should hope the stock market rises. Those who want him ousted should hope it crashes.Why? History shows that the stock market is a useful indicator of people’s attitudes toward whomever is president.Socionomics theory proposes that society’s overal...

    By Alan Hall • Jan. 3, 2019
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    Ex-Activision CFO Neumann Moves to Netflix

    Netflix said Wednesday it had hired media finance veteran Spencer Neumann as CFO, just two days after Activision Blizzard announced he would be terminated from its top finance job.Neumann’s gaming-to-streaming move fills the vacancy at Netflix created by the resignation of David Wells. It also ma...

    By Matthew Heller • Jan. 2, 2019
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    Wells Fargo Reaches Settlement to Resolve State Investigations

    Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay $575 million to settle claims by attorneys general from all 50 states and the District of Columbia that it created phony accounts and committed other customer abuses.The settlement was announced by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. It comes two years after the ...

    By William Sprouse • Jan. 1, 2019
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    The 10 Best Technology Articles of 2018

    It seems that almost every business decisions today involves technology in one way or another. That made for an interesting exercise in selecting our best tech content of the year. Mainly, we went for variety. Here are CFO editors’ picks for the 10 best technology articles of 2018.Cloud ERP: The ...

    By CFO Editorial Staff • Dec. 28, 2018
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending Dec. 28

    Recycled and synthetic products maker Unifi announced finance chief Jeffrey Ackerman resigned. Treasurer Christopher Smosna, who has held that post since 2008, will become interim CFO.Westmoreland Coal said Gary Kohn, who leads the finance function, will resign, effective Jan. 4. The company has ...

    By Joan Urdang • Dec. 28, 2018
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    ADT Fined Over Reporting Failures

    The Securities and Exchange Commission fined home and business security company ADT Inc. $100,000 over failures to report under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) when presenting its financial numbers.In May of 2018, in its first-quarter earnings release, ADT reported its adjusted ne...

    By William Sprouse • Dec. 27, 2018
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    Mastercard SpendingPulse: Retail Sales Grew at Strongest Rate in Six Years

    Retail sales grew at a robust 5.1% year-over-year to $850 billion for the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, according to a report from Mastercard. It was the strongest holiday shopping season in six years, according to the Mastercard SpendingPulse report, despite cold weather on Black Fr...

    By William Sprouse • Dec. 26, 2018
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending Dec. 21

    McGraw-Hill Education selected Mike Evans to head finance, effective Jan. 1. He formerly was CFO and COO at Renaissance, which provides pre–K12 learning analytics.Supermarket chain The Kroger Co. said J. Michael Schlotman, who leads the finance function, plans to retire next year. He remains in h...

    By Joan Urdang • Dec. 21, 2018
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    Middle Managers’ Poor Decisions Slash Profits

    Poor operational decisions by mid-level managers are extremely common and can erode profit margins by several percentage points, according to a Gartner report released on Thursday.CFOs seeking to better support these managers should redefine the roles of their finance business partners — those as...

    By • Dec. 21, 2018
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    Senators Prod Regulators on Fintech Oversight

    Seven U.S. senators sent a letter to regulators over concerns that startup Robinhood and other fintech companies may be avoiding oversight and asking regulators to explain how they plan to police start-ups that are moving into banks’ territory.The letter, sent to Securities and Exchange Commissio...

    By William Sprouse • Dec. 21, 2018
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    Executives Must Disclose Stock Hedging

    Ideally, a company’s executives and directors have incentives that align their interests with those of shareholders. Equity ownership, of course, is one of the primary vehicles. But what about when executives and directors can hedge against possible declines in their holdings of the company’s equ...

    By • Dec. 20, 2018
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    MetLife Settles With Massachusetts Over Pension Claims

    MetLife Inc. agreed to pay $1 million to settle claims from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that it made misleading statements to investors and failed to pay benefits retirees, some of whom it improperly characterized as “presumed dead.”Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin...

    By William Sprouse • Dec. 19, 2018
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    Former Panasonic Execs Charged By SEC

    Two former Panasonic Avionics executives have been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with violations of the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the federal securities laws and causing similar violations by the parent company, Panasonic Corp.The SEC sai...

    By William Sprouse • Dec. 19, 2018
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    Teladoc CFO Resigns Amid Sex Scandal

    Mark Hirschhorn resigned as CFO of Teladoc Health amid allegations of a sex scandal and insider trading at the telemedicine company.A news release announcing Hirschhorn’s resignation on Monday did not mention the allegations, which first surfaced on Dec. 5 in an investigative report that said he ...

    By Matthew Heller • Dec. 17, 2018