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How to Sharpen Your Market Focus with Long-Term Planning

Podcast: Play in new window | Download What does long term planning mean to your finance team? Join us as Ethan Carlson, CEO of Carlson Management Consulting, once more tackles our questions to supply you with answers and a new mindset designed to help empower your finance organization to look ahead.   The following is […]

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Keeping Values Top of Mind, Deborah Herrera, CFO, Schwan’s Consumer Brands

Podcast: Play in new window | Download How do sound values and good judgment become part of a CFO’s rite of passage? Join us as Deborah shares her CFO mind-set and details how her principles and powers of discernment led her to advance inside a variety of top finance organizations.

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Why Finance Leaders Must Walk the Floor, Jackie Barry Hamilton, CFO, Intronis

Podcast: Play in new window | Download What’s it like to serve as a CFO of a large-enterprise firm versus an emerging-growth firm? Join us as Jackie shares her CFO mind-set and reveals how her finance leadership has evolved from one career milestone to the next.

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CFO Renée Hornbaker Arms Stream Energy With a Dynamic Monthly Forecast

Podcast: Play in new window | Download What’s it like to be CFO of a $7 billion energy firm that’s grown largely by word of mouth? Join us as Renée shares her CFO mind-set and quickly advances a 21st Century finance function inside a fast-growing energy upstart.

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Canadian Firms Lack Financial Muscle to Combat Cyberattacks

Canadian companies seen lacking financial muscle to guard against cyberattacks Canada’s strict privacy legislation - and the required data checks and balances - helps businesses boost their defences against cyberattacks such as the devastating Sony Pictures hack where celebrities’ social security numbers and salaries were leaked, but Canadian firms are cutting their cybersecurity budgets and […]

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Is Visa Anti-Competitive? Debit Card Business Under Scrutiny:

Sterne Agee analysts pointed out that the declining prices in debit transactions are contrary to the anti-competitive claims of Discover against Visa Discover Financial Services ( NYSE:DFS) through its unit, Pulse Network LLC filed a case against Visa ( NYSE:V) on allegations that it is using anti-competitive practices in running its debit-card business. Discover’s allegations […]

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A Somewhat Edgy China Signals More Interest Rate Cuts

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s leadership and central bank are ready to cut interest rates again and also loosen lending restrictions, concerned that falling prices could trigger a surge in debt defaults, business failures and job losses, said sources involved in policy-making. Friday’s surprise cut in rates, the first in more than two years, reflects a […]

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Inflation Advancing But Economy Appears Strong

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Underlying inflation pressures rose in October, even as falling gasoline prices kept overall U.S. consumer prices in check, bolstering expectations of a mid-2015 interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve. Other data on Thursday showed vigor in the economy, with home resales rising at their fastest pace in a year in October […]

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Facebook Narrows its Lens on the Office

Using Facebook at work is about to become a lot more socially acceptable. The tech giant is secretly building a website called Facebook at Work, unidentified sources told the Financial Times. The site will reportedly allow the workers to chat with their colleagues, make professional contacts and collaborate on documents. It aims to compete with […]

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Zuckerberg Initiates Weekly Q&A With the Public

Every week for the past seven or eight years, Facebook has had internal question-and-answer sessions in which employees can pose questions to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on topics ranging from the social media site itself to the direction of the company. On Thursday, for the first time, Facebook opened up the event to the public, holding […]

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