CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Identifying and Overcoming Ethical Dilemmas in Business In the corporate world, numbers might drive decisions, but values define leadership. These dilemmas might not always come with flashing warning signs, but how you handle them speaks volumes about your leadership and your company’s culture.

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The Charity CFO

AUGUST 21, 2024

Fundraising and accounting departments provide vital services to the organization, but when they fail to communicate, it can lead to financial errors. Bridging this communication gap can help your organization ensure every dollar raised is used effectively.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, leadership transitions are often unavoidable due to unexpected departures, mergers, or restructuring initiatives. Enter interim leadership, a strategic solution providing organizations with the expertise to navigate these challenging times. How Can Interim Leadership Address These Issues?

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, leadership transitions are often unavoidable due to unexpected departures, mergers, or restructuring initiatives. Enter interim leadership, a strategic solution providing organizations with the expertise to navigate these challenging times. How Can Interim Leadership Address These Issues?

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Recognizing the need to enhance my managerial capabilities, I pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in Management, which equipped me with essential leadership skills. My goal is to leverage my experience and skills in finance and strategic management to drive growth, operational efficiency, and long-term success for an organization.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 22, 2024

Leveraging data for strategic decision-making has many benefits–from improving your efficiency to increasing the success rate of campaigns or strategies. Leveraging Data in Nonprofit Leadership How can you use data effectively as a nonprofit leader? Check out these tips for leveraging data as a nonprofit leader.

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The Charity CFO

JULY 27, 2022

But the most successful nonprofits are already leveraging interconnected software systems to raise money more effectively, optimize internal communications, and work SMARTER instead of harder. How companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Apple make it mandatory that you step up your game when it comes to effective communication.

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CFO Talks

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Rowen’s career in finance and leadership has positioned him as an influential figure, serving in executive roles across various sectors, including transportation, investment, and industrial management. Collaboration and open communication are also central to how I tackle difficulties.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 13, 2023

Philanthropies — be it private foundations, corporate and family funders, LLC’s, or other vehicles for giving — often struggle with the same set of fundamental questions: Are we best leveraging our resources and capabilities to not only fulfill our mission but also bring transformational change to the people and communities who need it most?

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

CPM involves a greater emphasis on improving communication and business strategies within a company. Thus, they communicate with C-Level executives differently and more frequently than in the past. HPM is a subset of HR that aims to improve operational capability as well as employee productivity and satisfaction.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The growing variety and complexity of tasks within the finance function has resulted in the creation of a discipline that is supposed to become a bridge between the finance and business to support decision-making process by leveraging data and technology. This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis.

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CFO Leadership

APRIL 10, 2023

Communication is key to exceeding duty of care obligations and establishing a foundation of good faith outside strict legal terms. Leverage technology. Leverage tools that provide omnipresent support should disruptions occur. The post Navan’s Modern Approach to Duty of Care first appeared on CFO Leadership. Be accessible.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Now, you have to leverage artificial intelligence; if youre not using it yet, youre already behind. Rouse: Communication. Its more about leadership, getting the right people on board, keeping everyone motivated, and ensuring no one loses sight of the goals. GF: What do you use AI for at Thryv? Thats the job, and I love it.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Several years ago, I traveled from New York to Geneva, Switzerland to be the closing keynote speaker for the World Communication Forum. In the moment, I chose servant leadership over self-interest. The term servant leadership was coined by Robert K. Leverage that self-awareness to make sure you’re not infecting your audience.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 12, 2024

Implying that part of the potential appeal to such support platforms is not simply about whether it's more cost-effective to use their tech and services to replace the advisor's own overhead costs, but that it's easier to scale up quickly as a fast-grower by leveraging incrementally more of the support platform's capabilities than needing to take the (..)

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 27, 2022

Finance leaders can and should take a leadership role cultivating their company’s ethical competencies and addressing its unique challenges. Document Your Policies: Policies all require clarity, communication, and consistency. Leverage closing checklists. Tackling the Issue of Ethics. The key policies need to be documented.

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Leadership Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Communication Reconciliations 52

CFO Thought Leader

AUGUST 28, 2024

The two had had a history of working together that had started at Level 3 Communications and continued through various other ventures. Steinfort’s move from CEO to CFO, while rare, highlights the importance not only of adaptability but also of developing and leveraging a broad skill set.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Here’s an example of how this plays out: One organization we worked with wanted to diversify their leadership team. Utilizing and leveraging organizational data like this isn’t a one-time task. But companies can and need to do more to fully leverage this role. Research finds that people from marginalized groups (e.g.,

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VCFO

JUNE 19, 2023

While it’s unlikely that one could find an executive that disagrees with this sentiment, manufacturing entities nonetheless often operate in isolated silos with inadequate communication and interaction between the production units and the corporate team. It also shows respect.

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CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While finance organizations are increasingly turning to AI to enhance their operations and streamline processes, leveraging AI capabilities to improve decision-making is in the early stages. Scenario analysis may also leverage AI to model various scenarios to better understand potential consequences of different decisions and market changes.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 6, 2025

Along the way, she understood that it was incumbent on finance leadership to make sense of raw data within companiesfinance leaders must connect figures to overarching strategy in a way that resonates with board members, employees, and investors alike.

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Jedox Finance

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Because AI learns from historical patterns and behaviors, the models the AI was leveraging were no longer applicable in our current environment. FP&A teams need to leverage their business partnering skills and relationships in order to extract better and more useful data and information from the organization and the external environment.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Critical Thinking: The CFO’s Secret Weapon in an Uncertain World South Africa’s economy is anything but predictable, with CFOs often finding themselves at the intersection of financial stewardship and strategic leadership. Build cross-functional teams to tackle strategic challenges collectively.

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Leadership Problem Solving CFO Compliance 52

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

They are expected to have a vision and be able to communicate that vision. As a business, we need to accelerate digital transformation and leverage on new digital technology to harness big data and provide timely and comprehensive end-to-end business analytics/insights/forecast to drive the right strategic decisions."

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Modern CFOs must embrace strategic leadership and foster cross-functional collaboration within their organisations to drive success in a highly competitive market. These silos create barriers that hinder communication, collaboration, and alignment across the organisation.

Communication 52

Communication Leadership CFO Budgeting 52

Focus CFO

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If needed, a fractional CFO can also leverage their external resources to seek better terms on the company’s existing funding, find additional funding, and negotiate with third parties like landlords and vendors. Increasing Communication. Strategic planning relies on good communication.

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Future CFO

MARCH 13, 2023

Assaouloff noted that any transformation starts first with people and aligning a common and shared purpose with the same language and strong leadership. Wong added that it is important to have open communication and improved employee engagement to build trust. Without people, you can’t turn any value into business leveraging digital.

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Finance Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Leadership Pharmaceutical 98

Future CFO

AUGUST 21, 2023

As a profession we have made significant progress over the years leveraging technology to streamline how we manage historical data and more recently, leveraging analytics on predicting outcomes. Robert E Parker: Finance leaders have always played a critical role in stewarding a company’s performance.

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CFO Leadership

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Following a year of flight cancellations, a lack of real-time updates, and overall dissatisfaction with outdated solutions, travel providers will enable more tech-driven solutions in 2023 to increase visibility and communicate with customers more efficiently. Natural language processing (NLP) chatbots will become a necessity for CX teams.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

Because of that, HP is “leveraging the success that we’ve had in the upper tiers of the retail and hospitality market and bringing that together in a way that addresses needs of SMB retailers and hospitality operators,” Weiss said. The Android-based POS will be called the HP Engage One Prime.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 8, 2025

Leverage Technology for Efficiency In the face of economic challenges, efficiency becomes critical. A customer-focused business, however, might communicate transparently about the changes and offer alternatives, like bundling products to reduce shipping costs. Transparent communication is the antidote.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Yvonne’s career in finance and leadership has positioned her as an influential figure, holding executive roles since 2005 and contributing significantly to MINT’s growth and innovation. This involves honest, transparent communication with all parties involved. Tough conversations are often necessary to address obstacles directly.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Bring clarity and communicate organisation objectives. Understand your organisation risk appetite Senior leadership across the organisation is responsible for articulating its risk appetite. Understand your organisation risk appetite Senior leadership across the organisation is responsible for articulating its risk appetite.

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Risk Management Finance Leadership Communication 52

CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 20, 2025

Eager to drive business outcomes, Keefe immersed himself in tech, soon discovering a passion for FP&A and leadership. His background at the SEC informs his ethos of communicating frequently and candidly with stakeholders. Leverage cross-functional expertise for holistic business insights and execution.

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Jedox Finance

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But you do need to be conscious about how to leverage your strengths and not get beaten by your weaknesses. Since business partnering is largely about influencing decisions through building strong relationships and being a standout communicator, it is often thought of as something for extroverts only. Let’s explore this further.

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Communication Finance Entertainment Leverage 98

Future CFO

MARCH 1, 2023

To create more business impact, finance functions may need to reimagine their strategy, leadership, operating model, talent and/or technology ,” said the analyst. Holding a training session for employees to explain its goals, purpose, and benefits and setting clear guidelines and communicating them are important first steps to take.

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Finance Benchmarking Compliance SAP 91

Future CFO

MARCH 11, 2021

The Women in Leadership report by Wharton noted that women occupy a significant proportion of management roles but are scarce in executive and C-Suite roles. The number of women in the leadership pipeline is shrinking, indicating gender inequality in leadership is going to get even worse.

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