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U.S. small businesses are waiting almost a month to get paid | Small-business data shows businesses waited an average of 29.3 days for payment in the June quarter, even as average lateness improved slightly to 8.5 days.
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U.S. small businesses are waiting almost a month to get paid | Small-business data shows businesses waited an average of 29.3 days for payment in the June quarter, even as average lateness improved slightly to 8.5 days.

xero.com
u/OnyxObsessionPin — 2 days ago
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Your accounting firm may be feeding AI training data without anyone opening ChatGPT | The concern is not simply whether employees paste confidential material into ChatGPT; data already residing inside accounting software can potentially enter AI workflows depending on vendor settings and contracts.

accountingtoday.com
u/FrontBreath3280 — 1 day ago
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Washington, D.C. is moving away from the 150-hour requirement for CPAs | Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser signed legislation creating an alternative CPA licensing route based on a bachelor’s degree with an accounting concentration, two years of professional experience and passage of the CPA exam

cfodive.com
u/FrontBreath3280 — 4 days ago
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LLMs can predict how CFOs will answer economic surveys | Duke researchers tested whether an LLM could approximate CFO responses to the Duke-Federal Reserve CFO Survey. When given company characteristics and history, model-generated optimism scores significantly predicted the actual CFO’s response

arxiv.org
u/FrontBreath3280 — 8 days ago
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A carve-out CFO may have to build finance while simultaneously running it | The demands on CFOs separating a business from a former parent: Core systems may still belong to the seller while reporting, FP&A, accounting processes, cash visibility and cost controls all need to become standalone

fticonsulting.com
u/OnyxObsessionPin — 8 days ago
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Finance AI projects succeed only about half the time | Gartner research found finance organizations report AI initiatives succeeding around 50% of the time. Higher-performing teams were more likely to appoint dedicated people responsible for scaling, prioritizing and governing AI

cfodive.com
u/FrontBreath3280 — 6 days ago
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More than 90% of finance leaders feel pressure to prove agentic AI ROI quickly | Only 38% described their AI ROI as being achieved at scale, while 23% said accountability for a major AI error was unclear or nonexistent.

journalofaccountancy.com
u/OnyxObsessionPin — 10 days ago
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Small businesses are becoming more cautious about putting cash back into growth | Only 38% of small-business owners now expect to increase investment during the next year, compared with 47% one year earlier.

uschamber.com
u/OnyxObsessionPin — 10 days ago
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AI spending may finally break Wall Street’s obsession with earnings per share | Alphabet recently reported strong earnings and revenue but negative free cash flow after almost $45 billion of quarterly capital expenditure, and investors punished the stock despite the EPS beat.

reuters.com
u/FrontBreath3280 — 9 days ago
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Cost pressure is hitting several parts of the business at once: A 2026 analysis found that small-business cost pressure is spread across labor, materials, overhead and other core expenses rather than being driven by one dominant category.

thesmallbusinessexpo.com
u/OnyxObsessionPin — 17 days ago
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Business-loan rates begin near 6.72%, but fees can materially change the cost: Origination fees can range from roughly 2% to 8%, while products using factor rates can be much harder to compare with traditional financing.

wsj.com
u/OnyxObsessionPin — 17 days ago
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Companies laying off staff this year include Meta, Amazon, Visa, and Walmart, citing automation and AI-enabled efficiency. Does lower headcount represent durable process improvement or a temporary response to cost pressure?

businessinsider.com
u/OnyxObsessionPin — 18 days ago