Harnessing GenAI in corporate finance: Lessons from Microsoft
CFO Dive
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Finance teams deploying the technology need a "trust, but verify" approach to outputs, among other best practices, a pair of Microsoft executives write.
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CFO Dive
JUNE 25, 2024
Finance teams deploying the technology need a "trust, but verify" approach to outputs, among other best practices, a pair of Microsoft executives write.
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Accountancy Today
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Musings on Markets
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PYMNTS
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PYMNTS
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The Finance Weekly
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Accountancy Today
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James Cowper Kreston Corporate Finance team has provided financial and tax due diligence and tax structuring advice to Queens Park Equity on its investment in Wordwall, an educational technology platform. The platform also offers access to approximately 88 million resources created by a global community of teachers.
PYMNTS
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PYMNTS
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Today, however, the rise in artificial intelligence-powered digital assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa make the use of similar technologies in the corporate space not only a possibility, but in many cases, already a reality. There are two major opportunities for a corporate,” he told PYMNTS in a recent interview.
PYMNTS
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CFO Talks
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PYMNTS
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One to One
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The Finance Weekly
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In a recent webinar sponsored by Datarails , the FP&A solution for Excel users, three distinguished finance leaders came together to discuss the impact of AI on corporate finance. They highlighted how AI technology is transforming the way finance and accounting teams work with data and make decisions.
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Listed on Euronext, the chemicals company develops and commercializes technologies that produce materials from sustainable carbon feedstocks. He was formerly corporate finance director at SBM Offshore and vice president, Oil & Gas Asia, at NIBC Bank. What makes it unique?
Future CFO
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PYMNTS
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It appears to be a relatively straightforward process, particularly as documents like invoices and purchase orders digitize, payments go electronic, and automation technology allows for quick, easy data matching. Yet the reality is that the reconciliation process is rarely ever straightforward. Payment Rail Confusion. Beyond the Status Quo.
Centage
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Next, we asked John Murdock, CEO of Centage , and Nick Fischer, CEO of Cadilus to address these challenges head on, which they did in a webinar, People, Processes & Technology (available for free and on-demand). A good FP&A technology platform will integrate and organize native data sources into a single source of truth.
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PYMNTS
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Its the alleged technology used by the target to penetrate a new type of market. If the buyer does not do a very good job in due diligence to really verify the technology they are trying to acquire, it can turn out to be worthless to the buyer.
PYMNTS
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Financial technology innovation has opened the doors to massive transformation of corporate finance departments. While flashy corporate FinTech is exciting, innovation efforts have rarely focused on a mainstay of corporate finance teams: the financial close process, a crucial, but continually outdated function.
CFO Thought Leader
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Fpanda Club
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Future CFO
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From accounting to treasury to corporate planning and corporate finance to tax management, and cash flow management that all falls under my scope of work and I am ultimately responsible for that, says Cheng of his responsibility as the CFO of the top real estate developer. .
PYMNTS
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The technology is proliferating financial markets, particularly for some of the world’s largest financial institutions in need of enhanced compliance solutions. More than three-quarters of accountants surveyed by BlackLine last year said they believed AI would play a “significant” role in corporate accounting.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 2, 2019
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PYMNTS
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PYMNTS
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PYMNTS
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Musings on Markets
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PYMNTS
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PYMNTS
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