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19/06/2014

THE MODERN CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.

Finance organizations need to evolve from a traditional close process to one that is modern and strategic, which allows finance executives to perform key functions in parallel during the close process.

As a result, chief financial officers (CFOs) must look at modernizing the close process to deploy resources to planning and analytics, thus, providing much greater value to the business.

The following best practices can help CFOs close the books faster and more accurately:

1. Streamline processes to achieve standardization: It is important to establish processes that are repeatable, predictable and scalable, and are overseen with a governance layer.

2. Choose technology that supports your processes: Companies need a global accounting integration and reporting platform to standardize accounting from multiple third-party transactional systems. This ability to bring together financial information from a variety of systems without disrupting existing processes offers greater benefits.

3. Adopt an integrated business services model: Companies can adopt the integrated business services model approach, which expands on the traditional shared services foundation of solid service management and focuses on multiple functions with process standardization throughout the organization.

20/02/2014

FACEBOOK BUYS WHATSAPP FOR $16 BILLION: A DESPERATE MOVE.
Facebook's staggering $16 billion acquisition of WhatsApp is a sign of sheer "desperation", according to one industry watcher, who argues that the social networking giant has overpaid for the mobile-messaging start-up.

While the popular instant messaging platform has 450 million monthly active users worldwide - with 70 percent active on a daily basis – it has taken a cautious approach to monetizing its service, charging an annual subscription fee of $1 after a year of free use.

Investors appeared unimpressed with the deal, sending Facebook shares down as much as 5 percent in afterhours trading.This showcases the market is thinking this is not good management practice. Investors don't get excited about companies that aren't using good judgment.
They are losing user attention, and they are trying to buy them back by buying applications. You don't necessarily do it by acquiring because by so doing, you're only buying the users as they exist in that particular instant. You get users by creating capability in the site that you have.

Like most large acquisitions, the final verdict on this transaction will be determined in the future and depend on strategy and ex*****on over time, wrote Mark May, analyst at Citi in a note.

However, while we respect WhatsApp's position of focusing in the near term on user growth and engagement and not monetization, the experience of other similar messaging apps like WeChat, Kakaotalk and LINE suggest significant revenue opportunities in areas like games, stamps/stickers and payments/m-commerce.

If WhatsApp were able to monetize at a similar rate to some of these apps, it would imply $1.5-2 billion in revenue, according to Citi, based on the current size of its user base.

19/02/2014

NEW INVESTORS FORGET TO PLAN FOR THIS.

Too many new investors, who are otherwise thoroughly prepared for the market, often forget to plan for this. That is, they forget to develop a strategy for selling.You may decide on gains of 1% in 1 day - or you may decide on gains of 10% in a year or more. The specifics are negotiable. But what's not negotiable is an exit strategy .
Ironically, we find that most investors do hours and hours of research deciding at what level to buy. However they put little or no time into determining when they should sell.
Yet, every stock comes with an expiration date.

One of the worst things an investor can do is hold too long.
Of course that doesn't mean you have to completely cash out.
Just as we advocate scaling into a position as you buy -we also advocate scaling out when you sell.

Ring the register on some of your position, sell incrementally into strength. And don't forget that you don't have profits at all, until you sell. No matter what you think, you haven't really won until you have taken something off the table.

And one final caveat - the time to develop a sell strategy isn't once you're already in the stock - it's before you ever put your first penny to work.