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.
Speaker: Sierre Lindgren
Fraud is a battle that every organization must face – it’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.” Every organization is a potential target for fraud, and the finance department is often the bullseye. From cleverly disguised emails to fraudulent payment requests, the tactics of cybercriminals are advancing rapidly. Drawing insights from real-world cases and industry expertise, we’ll explore the vulnerabilities in your processes and how to fortify them effectively.
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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2025 will feel familiar, in some regards. The procurement and supply chain category management landscape will remain turbulent, with geopolitical tensions, worries over fresh tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain disruptions posing significant challenges. But you should also expect some lightning-fast changes in 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to upend the way enterprises and procurement, supply chain, and category management professionals operate.
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.
CFO Dive
DECEMBER 20, 2024
CFO and co-interim CEO David Zinsner, along with the company’s former CEO, misled shareholders about the financial performance of Intel’s foundry unit, shareholders allege.
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.
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.
Speaker: Debra L. Robinson
CPAs know the drill: taxes, compliance, rinse, repeat. But what about the sneaky cash flow that’s quietly messing with your organization’s success? It’s time to step into the spotlight and expose the “dirty little secrets” of cash flow to fuel strategic growth. By upskilling your accounting practices and shifting focus from tax compliance to the strategic movement of money, you can transform your role from reactive accountant to proactive financial strategist.
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
JULY 3, 2024
Artificial intelligence is a key focal area as organizations scramble to keep up with threat actors, the study shows.
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.
Speaker: Aaron Berson
Managing spend is more than a cost cutting exercise – it's a pathway to smarter decisions that unlock efficiency and drive growth. By understanding and refining the spending process, financial leaders can empower their organizations to achieve more with less. Explore the art of balancing financial control with operational growth. From uncovering hidden inefficiencies to designing workflows that scale your business, we’ll share strategies to align your organization’s spending with its strategic g
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
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
CFOs are keeping their focus on finding AI tools with “some good bit of traceability” in the face of a rising tide of potential vendors, Visual Lease’s Amie Durr said.
CFO Dive
DECEMBER 3, 2024
The question for CFOs isn’t whether they need AI, but how long they can survive without it, says Runway CEO Siqi Chen.
CFO Dive
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Household spending, the labor market and the broader economy have shown signs of unexpected strength in recent weeks.
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Bleisure travel — where employees combine work and leisure — has been around since the advent of corporate travel and is here to stay. Successful bleisure policies strike a balance between employee preferences and company goals — workers report a 64% improvement in work-life balance, while companies benefit from reduced travel costs and increased workforce innovation.
CFO Dive
MAY 29, 2024
Many banks have pursued a policy of “extend and pretend” to avoid writing off troubled commercial real estate loans, according to a Conference Board economist.
CFO Dive
OCTOBER 1, 2024
The Fed’s rate cut has handed floating-rate debt borrowers an immediate tailwind but CFOs are still grappling with new strategies that the move could elevate.
CFO Dive
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Sixty-six percent of finance leaders are more optimistic about the technology compared to last year, the study found.
CFO Dive
AUGUST 7, 2024
By taking point on technology initiatives, CFOs can shape the future of how their company leverages new solutions, Workday’s Terrance Wampler said.
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