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    67% of candidates do not negotiate salaries

    Only 15% of candidates provided salary ranges that their employers then negotiated within, Monster said. 

    By Riia O'Donnell • Aug. 5, 2019
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    Mapbox hire shows how CFO can be strategic partner in tech company

    A recent hire by a fast-moving start-up shows why CFOs must embrace new thinking on how to account for tech investments. 

    By Robert Freedman • Aug. 5, 2019
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    Compensation: 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.

    By CFO Dive staff
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    Trade tensions: Look at back office too

    Trade tensions are an opportunity to look at all operational costs, not just those affected by the threat of tariffs. 

    By Robert Freedman • Aug. 5, 2019
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    $650 million Equifax settlement a wake-up call for CFOs, security expert says

    CFOs are advised to devote the resources to put verification systems in place to avoid the kind of consumer data breach that hit Equifax.

    By Jane Thier • Aug. 2, 2019
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    Making the finance function millennial friendly

    Millennials' preference for quick turnarounds, multitasking and modified workplace rules is driving CFOs to rethink how they structure their finance function. 

    By • Aug. 2, 2019
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    As simple as it sounds, just identifying your leases is the highest hurdle to new FASB standards

    CFOs of private companies don't have much time to comply with new lease accounting standards even if FASB extends the start date a year, as it has proposed.

    By Marc Betesh • Aug. 2, 2019
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    Digital transformation drives widest wedge between CFOs, CIOs, study shows

    CFOs and CIOs don't always see eye to eye on digital strategy, in large part because the value of IT investments is so hard to quantify.

    By Robert Freedman • Aug. 2, 2019

  • Feds OK letting unrelated companies offer joint retirement plans

    A federal rule takes effect September 30 that permits companies to band together to provide retirement benefits to their employees as long as they're in the same area or state.  

    By Robert Freedman • Aug. 2, 2019
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    Under Armour's supply chain simplification boosts margins

    Under Armour's gross margins were up 170 basis points in the second quarter thanks in part to supply chain efforts, said COO Patrik Frisk. 

    By Emma Cosgrove • Aug. 1, 2019
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    How Mylan ended as a junior partner in its Pfizer deal

    Following a failed deal for Perrigo in 2015, Mylan's fortunes turned south as change came quickly to the generic drug industry.

    By Jonathan Gardner • July 30, 2019