Future CFO

MAY 1, 2024

As they assist in compliance audits and the monitoring of internal controls to ensure that everyone within the company does their job correctly, they are also expected to thrive and flourish amid the challenges along the way for the benefit of the organisation.

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CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They’re not very good at mathematics or dealing with numbers in general. AI driven automation is expected to extend to more complex tasks such as, audits, risk management, and financial planning and analysis. As AI permeates finance, questions about its compliance with audits and financial governance will arise.

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Planful

JANUARY 19, 2016

Half of the time the numbers were unreadable, so we had to confirm them via phone. Then we would key the numbers into a spreadsheet and perform the currency translations there. (I It’s More Than Just Rolling-Up Numbers. Ensuring adequate audit trails for internal and external auditors. Yes, remember Fax machines ?)

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Planful

JULY 27, 2016

Not being compliant with US GAAP or IFRS. Lack of controls and audit trails. Time-consuming and costly audit process. The good news here is that cloud-based solutions have been available for a number of years, and many now offer the same capabilities as on-premises solutions. Improve audit trails, reduce audit costs.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 28, 2022

At COP26, the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (IFRS Foundation), which supervises accounting standards in more than 140 countries, predominantly in Europe and Asia, announced the formation of the , International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Data validations, controls, and audit trails are extensive.

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Planful

JUNE 22, 2017

GAAP or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Financial Consolidation is More Than Just Adding Up Numbers. To those who aren’t familiar, financial consolidation might sound like simply adding up numbers from a group of companies—but it’s more than this. Reporting results to internal and external stakeholders.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Using the words of IFRS (1.7), ‘ Information is material if omitting, misstating or obscuring it could reasonably be expected to influence decisions that the primary users of general purpose financial statements make on the basis of those financial statements, which provide financial information about a specific reporting entity ’.

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Planful

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Think about your current reporting process and start counting the number of ways you could improve upon it. Planful gives you a robust library of report templates to build the foundation of GAAP and IFRS-compliant balance sheets, income statements, statements of cash flow, and other financial and statutory reports. Edwards Deming.

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Planful

AUGUST 1, 2017

You’re preparing for an IPO or external audit, which requires having rock-solid financial statements. Consolidating financial results might sound easy on the surface, but it’s more than just adding up numbers. US GAAP, Canadian GAAP, IFRS, etc.). So what does the financial consolidation and close process entail?

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CFO Talks

MARCH 31, 2022

Today’s podcast is sponsored by Draftworx, which provides automated drafting and working paper financial software to more than 8000 accounting and auditing firms and corporations. Oyinda Akanbi is making a difference beyond finance in her position as CFO at the leading diagnostics provider in Nigeria.

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CFO Talks

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Today’s podcast is sponsored by Draftworx, which provides automated drafting and working paper financial software to more than 8000 accounting and auditing firms and corporations. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants. That again, demonstrated the need of the company for them to be strategists.

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Onplan

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Despite its extensive number of integrations, Adaptive has seen users complain that ERP integrations tend to break and require a long time and multiple support interventions to repair. Automated reporting also enforces compliance with GAAP and IFRS standards. It also offers convenient multi-currency management.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 27, 2025

1 is, of course, the traditional route, which a lot of people follow and go through one of the accounting firms, and, typically, they go through audit related activities. Audit never interested me all that much, so it wasn’t a route I was particularly excited about. How do I audit this thing? I must be honest.

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

My name is Lawrence Nsibandze, and I began my career back in 2001 with the Price Hotel Group as an audit clerk. I spent about four and a half years there, doing external audits for clients under international standards. In this role, I introduced a risk-based auditing approach and later became the bank’s financial manager.

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