AFP 2022 Blog

If you’re like many finance professionals, you experience apprehension when tasked with forecasting large ventures and capital expenditures. The famous quote, “All models are wrong, but some can be useful,” describes the dilemma we face: We can’t be perfect, but hopefully we can be directionally correct because the consequences of missteps can be enormously consequential. For project-driven companies and those with significant capital expenditures, the success of projects — strategically and financially — is a key to organizational growth and financial health.

Over the last several years, your workforce has been through a lot. So much so that employees across industries have a whole new perspective on the concept of work/life balance and are walking away from careers they’ve worked so hard to establish.

AFP President & CEO Jim Kaitz sits down with Executive Institute Keynote speaker April Rinne. Click through to watch the video.

As the states continue to ramp up their enforcement of unclaimed property laws, it is essential that holders understand their compliance obligations and risk profiles, how to proactively mitigate potential exposure and become familiar with the audit process. Failure to respond to state inquiries in a timely manner can increase the likelihood of audit and potentially preclude a holder from participating in a state’s voluntary compliance program in the future.

Do you ever feel that you need — or can offer others — a little professional help? Whether you’ve just started working in your chosen career path, you’re climbing the ladder or even changing fields, networking and developing your personal brand is an important part of the journey to success.

Pirates have roamed the seas for centuries, seeking to seize money and valuables from anyone crossing their paths. And while pirates of years past largely restricted their thievery to waterways, present day payment pirates (modern criminals) are extending their nefarious activities to cyberspace and other avenues, targeting ACH, card payments, checks and more. What can be done to thwart today’s payment pirate pilferages? Is payment progress underway?

Kaihan Krippendorff gives us a preview of his AFP 2022 Mindshift Keynote, Be the Disrupter, Not the Disrupted, in this video blog with AFP President and CEO, Jim Kaitz. What makes companies and individuals thrive in the face of disruption, while others fall behind? Watch this video.

In a recent episode of the “AFP Conversations” podcast, Jim Kaitz, president and CEO of AFP, sat down with our AFP 2022 closing keynote speaker, Adam Grant. Speaking this October in Philadelphia, Grant is known the world over as a pioneer of organizational psychology, as his millions of followers, the multitude of readers who have made his books bestsellers, along with the students who repeatedly vote him the Wharton School’s top-rated professor, will attest.

“We're not going to change this profession by just having the leaders embrace innovation. We need everyone to do that,” said Shawn Kanungo, innovation strategist and AFP 2021 MindShift Keynote, in a recent podcast with AFP President and CEO Jim Kaitz.

What do star athletes, elite fighting forces and corporate magnates all have in common? They never stop learning. They never stop practicing, training, studying and trying to be better, do more — some are even, quite literally, reaching for the stars (hello, Bezos.)