Lees-top 10: Hoe budgetteer je voor 2021?

1. Managing a Team with Conflicting Political Views
Politics around the world seem to be getting more and more divisive, and it’s impossible for the topic not to enter into our everyday conversations — including those that happen at work. When people on your team have differing views, those conversations can often get tense. Is it possible to keep things civil without an outright ban on talking politics?

2. Banks Prepare for ‘Big Bang’ Switch From LIBOR
The debt markets and derivates segments are gearing up for an enormous change called the “Big Bang,” i.e. switching over from the old interest rate benchmark, the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), to the new Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), reports Bloomberg.

3. 3 top executives discuss how tech transformed business during COVID-19
When the coronavirus pandemic descended in March, as various stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders rolled through the country, technology became a lifeline for millions of housebound citizens and thousands of companies struggling with the economic effects of the shutdown.

4. How Ready Are You for the Work-from-Anywhere Era?
The Covid-19 pandemic has hurled life and work as we once knew it into a state of near-paralysing uncertainty. So much has changed about our world so quickly that our first instinct may understandably be to find some small patch of solid-seeming ground and plant ourselves there for as long as we can, to await the resumption of normality. But the longer the virus lingers, the clearer it becomes that any form of normal – new or old – will be slow to materialise.

5. 5 Classic LinkedIn Blunders
LinkedIn, with its 660 million users, is filled with numerous opportunities for mistakes, mess-ups, and yes, even blunders. Some of these are easy fixes and some might take a bit more work, but all in all, if you can make these changes, you will become more successful on the platform.

6. COVID-19 and European small and medium-size enterprises: How they are weathering the storm
Small and medium-size enterprises(SMEs) have been the lifeblood of the European economy, accounting for more than two-thirds of the workforce and more than half of the economic value added.1 Yet the results of a recent McKinsey survey, conducted in August, 2020, of more than 2,200 SMEs in five European countries—France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom—indicate just how hard their prosperity has been hit by the COVID-19 crisis.

7. Flexing the muscles of Power BI
Advanced editing features and access to artificial intelligence on Microsoft’s servers provide users with a pair of powerful tools.

8. Why ‘digital’ is no different when it comes to valuation
Whether tech-enabled or old-school, proposed projects and initiatives need to be assessed according to the cash flows they generate. The trick is getting the base case right.

9. Frontier Developments CFO on strength of video games market
Finance head Alex Bevis reveals in an interview how the video games firm surged to a £1bn valuation during the coronavirus lockdown.

10. Podcast: Should companies rethink their approach to 2021 budgeting?
Even without the disruption of COVID-19, budgeting and forecasting for the year ahead are challenging tasks requiring months of back-and-forth negotiations between departments and senior management. Prabhu Sivabalan, professor of accounting at the UTS Business School in Sydney, who has spent years researching budgeting, talks about the problem with using budgets for performance evaluation and suggests quick wins to improve budgeting this planning season.