Not too long ago, Hasbro CFO Gina Goetter found herself in the kind of job interview moment that either lands you the gig or gets your application quietly pushed aside.

She was speaking with the company’s CEO, Chris Cocks, about Hasbro’s consumer product margin.

“I went in and talked with him, and I said, ‘Why do you not have two numbers for your margin on the consumer product?’” Goetter told the audience at a panel during the CFO Leadership Council’s spring conference in Boston on June 4.

“He’s like, ‘Well, what should the margin be?’” she continued. Her response? “There’s usually two numbers before the decimal point.”

Correcting the CEO in a job interview? Bold, sure, but prescient for Goetter’s stint at Hasbro thus far.

The advantage of having difficult CEO-CFO conversations in the open.—NP

So, what do investors have to say about all this? “This,” of course, being the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule change to allow public companies to file semiannually. Obviously.

We’ve got a glimpse, thanks to a survey from the CFA Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides financial education to investment professionals.

Completed before the SEC released its proposed rule on semiannual reporting, the 46-question survey received more than 2,500 responses from investment analysts and portfolio managers in January 2026.

The survey revealed deep investor opposition to semiannual reporting. More than six in 10 (62%) respondents opposed replacing quarterly reporting with semiannual, while 70% opposed “granting issuers broad flexibility to choose or change their own reporting frequency.”

Comparability concerns loomed particularly large: 82% of respondents voiced concern about comparability across companies and industries if different reporting cadences were implemented.

What investors fear about the semiannual reporting option.—NP

It’s all fun and games until the majority of your workforce suddenly become AI builders—and need new and improved guardrails to prevent security havoc.

That’s the predicament faced by numerous companies thanks to the rise of vibe coding, and retail giant Walmart is no exception.

All in on AI. Walmart has been gearing up its workforce for the AI era. During a June 3 press briefing at its annual Associates Week, Walmart Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer Suresh Kumar said associates are now leveraging AI tools like Code Puppy, Walmart’s internal vibe-coding platform.

“Right now, we have as many non-technical associates who are now able to do things that require technology as we have engineers,” Kumar said. The retailer also announced the general availability of its OpenAI certification program to US associates to bolster AI literacy across its workforce.

The downside? Shadow AI is growing exponentially, IT Brew reports.—BM

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