6 essentials for CFOs aiming to rise to CEO: McKinsey
CFO Dive
JANUARY 23, 2024
Corporate boards in the past decade have increasingly turned to CFOs to fill the CEO seat. McKinsey has highlighted the attributes boards seek in a chief executive.
CFO Dive
JANUARY 23, 2024
Corporate boards in the past decade have increasingly turned to CFOs to fill the CEO seat. McKinsey has highlighted the attributes boards seek in a chief executive.
CFO Plans
OCTOBER 29, 2024
In the dynamic world of financial services, cash flow management is the linchpin of business success and sustainability. With companies navigating the complexities of financial operations, understanding and optimizing cash flow becomes vital. Discover Expert Cash Flow Solutions that can transform your financial strategy today. This article explores effective strategies for accounts receivable and payable management, offering actionable insights to enhance financial stability and promote growth.
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CFO Talks
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Achievement Orientation in Finance: How to Set and Meet High Standards As a CFO, you play a key role in setting the tone for performance in your organisation. Achievement orientation is about more than meeting deadlines or hitting financial targetsits about consistently striving for excellence and encouraging your team to do the same. The good news?
The Finance Weekly
DECEMBER 1, 2024
Let’s talk about something every business owner and accountant deals with— account reconciliation. Sure, it may not be the most glamorous part of finance, but it’s undeniably one of the most important. It’s what keeps your books accurate, ensures you catch errors (or even fraud), and gives you the confidence to make financial decisions based on solid data.
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Global Finance
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the financial industry, from automating processes to enhancing customer experiences, and financial institutions are approaching this transformation with careful consideration of the ethical implications and potential risks. As AI is piloted and adopted across all aspects of the personal and business banking landscape, Global Finance held a Digital Banking and AI Innovation panel in London with global financial industry leaders to ex
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The Finance Weekly
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
Budgeting is a fundamental aspect of financial planning, and one approach that often comes up in discussions is incremental budgeting. It’s important to understand this method and how it might fit into your financial processes. What is Incremental Budgeting? Incremental budgeting is a budgeting approach where the starting point for a new budget is the previous one.
CFO Talks
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Balancing Cost and Service in Financial Management: A CFO’s Perspective Every decision a CFO makes carries weight on the bottom line, the team’s efficiency, and the overall direction of the business. One of the toughest challenges in this role is finding the right balance between controlling costs and delivering the quality of service that stakeholders expect.
E78 Partners
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Transaction services have become essential for businesses navigating complex financial landscapes in today’s fast-paced and technology-driven world. E78 , a leader in tailored financial solutions, has adapted to meet these demands, evolving its transaction services from traditional, paper-heavy processes to cutting-edge digital platforms. As businesses grow and expand globally, E78’s commitment to efficient, secure, and adaptable transaction services ensures clients can manage financial tr
Global Finance
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Global banking cooperative SWIFT plans to ring in 2025 by launching AI-enhanced fraud detection capabilities. The new function will give financial institutions more accurate insight into potentially fraudulent activities in real time. Fraud attacks that enlist AI-generated deepfakes that impersonate high-level executives and AI-created synthetic identities are only rising.
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79% of finance leaders we surveyed say they play a multifaceted role—ensuring financial stability, managing risk, and enabling transformation. In our 2025 Global Finance Leaders Survey, 751 global leaders shared their biggest challenges, top priorities, and outlook for the year ahead. Here’s what you’ll learn in the survey report: An in-depth look at different leadership approaches and what they mean for finance leaders Top challenges facing finance leaders, from data reliability to talent manag
Future CFO
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Finance leadership is undoubtedly not a cakewalk, as it involves various roles for the organisation to grow and drive value. Chief finance officers now work as strategic advisors to the C-suite team, with specific strategies at hand to bring in innovation for the company as a whole. Every decision is crucial to the overall results and endpoint of each and every plan and initiative, that is why it is necessary that finance leaders have a clear view of the road they have to take.
Navigator SAP
DECEMBER 23, 2024
SAP has announced the integration of its AI copilot, Joule , into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and supply chain management applications, enhancing user interaction and operational efficiency. In SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition , Joule streamlines tasks by enabling quick navigation, providing instant insights into business data, and offering guidance through relevant enablement content.
CFO Dive
OCTOBER 3, 2024
By March generative AI’s most common tools had been accessed more than 3 billion times by hundreds of millions of users every month.
Musings on Markets
DECEMBER 11, 2024
I am a teacher at heart, and every year, for more than two decades, I have invited people to join me in the classes that I teach at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Since I teach these classes only in the spring, and the first sessions for each of the classes will be in late January, I think this is a good time to provide some details on the classes, including content and structure.
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Nerd's Eye View
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 412th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Anjali Jariwala. Anjali is the Founder of FIT Advisors, an RIA based in Torrance, California (but works virtually with clients nationwide) and oversees $65 million in assets under management for 45 client households. What's unique about Anjali, though, is how she has tripled her annual revenue from $250,000 to $750,000 during the past 6 years, while only adding a net of 10 cli
Navigator SAP
DECEMBER 27, 2024
One of the principal stakeholders who often drive digital transformation is the CFO. This is not surprising, because digital transformation and the adoption of a modern ERP solution benefits both financial performance and operational efficiency, two areas that are particularly near and dear to the CFO job function. Digital transformation also benefits CFOs more directly, because it assists with streamlining and automating financial business complexity.
Navigator SAP
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Electronic data interchange (EDI) is an important technology for creating a smooth and automated data flow between your business and your partners, both suppliers and sellers. Configuring an EDI connection is not always simple, however, which is where EDI templates come in. EDI is the process of electronically exchanging business data that was traditionally handled with paper.
Navigator SAP
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
What is a Fit-to-Standard Solution? Fit-to-standard sounds complicated, but really it is a simple idea: Instead of using custom systems and processes, make them conform to the industry standard that everyone is using. A fit-to-standard solution is one that solves the problem in a standard way. One example of a fit-to-standard solution is Apple’s address book.
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.
Navigator SAP
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Navigator Business Solutions, an SAP Gold Partner, is proud to be featured on the SourceForge Podcast , hosted by Beau Hamilton. As a leader in cloud-based ERP solutions, including SAP S/4HANA and Business ByDesign, we specialize in helping small to mid-sized companies streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and drive sustainable growth. With over 500 successful implementations, Navigator is renowned for delivering scalable, impactful business solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of ou
Navigator SAP
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
You’re living in a multi-channel world. You probably know about the omnichannel approach to sales. But are you up to speed on the channel-less selling methodology? At first, there was one real channel: the brick-and-mortar storefront. But as technology has changed, sales have become multi-channel. How businesses approach this multi-channel sales environment matters both for competitiveness and customer experience.
Global Finance
DECEMBER 27, 2024
Tanzanias socioeconomic transformation drives economic dominance by attracting substantial investments and dominating intraregional trade. Tanzania is undergoing eye-catching socioeconomic transformation. The East African nation has opted to go on quietly pursuing economic supremacy. Outsiders, however, are taking note. Kenyan President William Ruto is among them.
CFO Dive
JULY 3, 2024
Artificial intelligence is a key focal area as organizations scramble to keep up with threat actors, the study shows.
Speaker: Claire Grosjean
Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.
CFO Dive
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Expectations for personal finances have improved amid indications that many Americans, when looking back four years, believe their financial well-being has declined.
CFO Dive
AUGUST 23, 2024
For the first time since the pandemic, corporate real estate executives’ sentiment has shifted slightly in favor of portfolio expansion, according to a CBRE report.
CFO Dive
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Finance chiefs are “uniquely positioned” to take point on AI’s adoption ahead of its coming strategic impact, Thomson Reuters’ interim head of data and analytics said.
CFO Dive
AUGUST 27, 2024
Every transformation should include a robust and detailed business case with defensible and realistic numbers, writes ISG’s Jon Lightman.
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