Tech skills compete with finance savvy in what leadership wants in CFOs
CFO Dive
APRIL 20, 2022
Digital skills are seen as the building blocks that a successful CFO needs to drive profitable growth today, research shows.
CFO Dive
APRIL 20, 2022
Digital skills are seen as the building blocks that a successful CFO needs to drive profitable growth today, research shows.
Navigator SAP
APRIL 22, 2022
If you’ve ever bought land and had a home built from scratch, you know it’s not a simple handoff project. Choices have to be made from the outset that will dictate how you’re going to build that house. The decision to hire a contractor to build the structure, hang the drywall, and install the plumbing and wiring is straightforward enough. What comes after that is an exercise in determining whether you’ll build on price or on value.
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Private Funds CFO
APRIL 18, 2022
20 ways CFOs are shaking up the agenda: 16-20.
Fpanda Club
APRIL 18, 2022
Marketing teams, being among FP&A’s counterparties, are usually considered to be the most creative people in the company. They are responsible for understanding consumers, building relationships with them and eventually getting them interested in company’s products and services. To perform these functions marketing, as a discipline, possesses a wide range of tools and techniques that can be used to analyze data, verify hypotheses and communicate information.
Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
CFO Dive
APRIL 18, 2022
While some companies have sought to dump office leases, others are looking to keep a lid on costs by quietly accommodating more hybrid workers in existing space.
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Private Funds CFO
APRIL 18, 2022
PE firms are discovering how transparency is reducing risk and redefining competition in a world of heightened regulatory scrutiny and tougher employee retention, writes Richard Change of PFA Solutions. .
CFO
APRIL 18, 2022
Chief financial officers as company leaders have been an ongoing theme over the past few years, for obvious reasons. CFO’s reporting has illuminated, and studies and surveys have shown, the finance chief not only is needed as a strategic leader within the organization but increasingly yearns to perform in this role. Part of any company’s. The post Metric of the Week: CFOs Prefer Strategy Over Management appeared first on CFO.
CFO Dive
APRIL 19, 2022
Since 2012, CEO Henry Ward has been using his deck to excite interest in his plan to transfer private shares digitally and then own the ecosystem of a new stock market.
CFA Institute
APRIL 18, 2022
If the US government were a normal company, it would have had to declare bankruptcy long ago.
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Embark With Us
APRIL 21, 2022
Let’s say you indulge yourself after a lifetime's worth of longing from a distance, swing by that fancy car dealership you drive past every day, and decide that today’s the day -- that lovely example of exceptional German engineering will finally be yours. After making such a momentous investment, both in money and the effort exerted throughout a long and laborious career, you aren’t going to let just anyone work on your world-class automobile to keep it running as silky smooth as possible.
Centage
APRIL 19, 2022
Every business needs a budget — but having a budget is just the start. In addition to making a budget every month, quarter, or year, you also need to compare that budget to what your company actually earns and spends. Without a comparison between your forecasted income and expenses and your company’s actual income and expenses, you have no way of knowing whether you are on track, doing better than expected, or falling behind.
CFO Dive
APRIL 22, 2022
Companies hiring for jobs in accounting and finance increasingly value recent graduates with technological skills, AICPA said.
CFA Institute
APRIL 21, 2022
As cracks develop along geopolitical fault lines, new barriers could emerge to disrupt global trade.
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Embark With Us
APRIL 20, 2022
Riddle us this – what's 500 pages long, asks over 800 questions, and is giving CFOs acid reflux before it even becomes official? If you said the SEC's recent proposal on climate disclosure requirements, we owe you a gold star.
Future CFO
APRIL 19, 2022
The World Bank said recently that it has slashed lowered its annual global growth forecast for 2022 from 4.1% to 3.2%, citing the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the world’s economy. The largest single factor behind the economic slowdown was a projected economic contraction of 4.1% across Europe and Central Asia, World Bank noted. Other factors include higher food and fuel costs borne by consumers in developed economies across the globe, the organisation added.
CFO Dive
APRIL 18, 2022
Over one-third of your invoices have errors, and costs to process these may be up to ten times greater than a "clean" invoice.
The Charity CFO
APRIL 19, 2022
As a CPA working exclusively with nonprofits and a former nonprofit auditor, I’ve looked at thousands of nonprofit financial statements over the past 10 years. Looking at that many balance sheets, you start to identify trends. And while some issues are evident to anyone, others only stand out once you know what to look for. Over the years, I’ve identified a set of 5 nonprofit financial red flags that are fairly common and almost always lead to trouble sooner or later.
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri
FISPAN
APRIL 18, 2022
2022 is the year you’ll see every big Canadian financial institution get ready for Open Banking. Over the last 20 years, Sue Britton has worked in product innovation for the Canadian financial services industry, having previously led international teams and launched multiple products across the world for Symcor, Broadridge and Finastra. Surinderjit (Jeet) Kaur Bhatti has vast experience in FinTech ranging from the venture capital world to the financial innovation labs.
Future CFO
APRIL 17, 2022
Financial reporting specialist and lecturer Adam Deller explains the basic principles of IFRS 5, 'Non-Current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations'. The post The fundamentals of IFRS 5 appeared first on FutureCFO.
CFO Dive
APRIL 19, 2022
Rollins Inc., a global exterminator company, adjusted its accounting reserves in order to increase its EPS by 1 cent and meet quarterly forecasts.
CFA Institute
APRIL 21, 2022
Gender lens investing may be the most powerful approach to achieving gender parity in finance and investment.
Speaker: Cheryl J. Muldrew-McMurtry
Distributed finance teams are rewriting how the back-office runs, and attackers are taking notes. Disconnected workflows, process blind spots, and rising cyber threats are more than just growing pains—they’re liabilities. The challenge isn’t just going remote. It’s building resilient systems that protect accuracy, control, and speed across every transaction and touchpoint.
CFO Simplified
APRIL 17, 2022
As Iowa State University reminds us, “profitability is the primary goal of all business ventures.”. Business leadership is often responsible for measuring current, past, and future profitability. But what is profitability? Profitability is the difference between the amount you sold a product or service for, and what it cost you to buy or create it. The importance?
Future CFO
APRIL 18, 2022
Global IPO market saw significant slowdown in Q1 2022 after fter record-high levels of global IPO activity in 2021, said EY recently. The year started off strongly, continuing the momentum of Q4 2021, with January producing the strongest opening month in 21 years by proceeds, the firm noted. However, by the second half of the quarter, worldwide stock market declines shifted the trajectory dramatically in the opposite direction, resulting in a significant drop in overall activity, EY added.
CFO Dive
APRIL 20, 2022
Companies that collect data about their suppliers can gain insights needed to influence suppliers’ behavior on carbon emissions and other sustainability goals.
CFO
APRIL 19, 2022
For companies of all sizes and in all jurisdictions, a common emphasis is on reducing risk exposure and costs while still looking for opportunities to maximize revenues, market share, and advance business objectives. When the prospect of litigation arises, companies can struggle with issues such as determining how to protect company interests and valuation and.
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CFO Alliance
APRIL 22, 2022
The post What the 5 Principles of Financial Literacy Mean for Founders appeared first on CFO Alliance.
Future CFO
APRIL 20, 2022
Digitalisation has a more important role in play in sustainability as 88% of C-suites in Asia Pacific will increase the use of digital solutions to drive it in the 36 months, said Tata Consultancy Services when releasing results of a survey. The survey collected respondents from 200 C-level executives from companies with an annual turnover ranging from US$151 million to more than US$10 billion across 12 sectors and 10 countries, namely Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Phil
CFO Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
The IRS lacks the enforcement clout needed to audit many big companies that may dodge their tax obligations.
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