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More CFOs feeling the heat with ransomware
Cybersecurity is a finance issue that CFOs leave to tech colleagues at their peril, Anup Singh of network security company Illumio says.
Anup Singh • March 25, 2020 -
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How to get a clean accounts payable solution
Payment technology is available, but finance leaders are hesitant to add to their already fragmented collection of partially automated processes. Maybe they shouldn't be.
Doug Seaberg • March 10, 2020 -
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An unlikely duo: CIO and CFO dynamic driving transformation success ... and failure
Removing friction between the CIO and the CFO, building strong working relationships and avoiding counter-behaviors can unlock a reduced IT cost. A principle roadblock? Establishing trust.
Gary O’Brien • March 9, 2020 -
Building a case for transforming your capital expenditure process
The real-dollar impact of having a cloud-based digital capital expenditure process can be substantial, which your colleagues outside of finance might not realize.
Rich Feldman • March 4, 2020 -
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Learning from P-Card pitfalls to improve the payment process
You risk diluting the benefits of e-payments if you adopt a system too hastily and cause integration problems.
Matt Clark • Feb. 17, 2020 -
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You've set the budget and it's Q1. Now what?
Monthly forecasting exercises offer CFOs 12 chances to perfect their plan. Here's how to get the most out of them.
Jason Lin • Feb. 9, 2020 -
2020 Trends: What future-ready CFOs are thinking about
Qualitative analyses, sustainable investment, inclusive hiring, shortened supply chains and business response plans are among the priorities forward-looking CFOs will put in place in 2020.
Anthony Coletta • Jan. 30, 2020 -
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Rolling forecasts support your enterprise risk management
This kind of projection can provide an incentive for long-term, value-maximizing behavior over short-term, bonus/target-based decisions rooted in the current fiscal year, writes Bryan Lapidus of the Association for Financial Professionals.
Bryan Lapidus • Jan. 25, 2020 -
How to make small-dollar renewals worthwhile
If you have a lot of contracts facing expiration, a technology process can make their renewal more cost effective.
Nick McMenemy • Jan. 20, 2020 -
Why your organization needs finance-governed analytics
CFOs are the ideal internal champions to create governed analytics strategies that extend planning and reporting capabilities beyond finance into sales, marketing, operations and HR.
Bill Koefoed and Scott Stern • Jan. 14, 2020 -
Subscriptions increase incremental spend by 60%
Demand for a frictionless experience stretches beyond the SaaS model. Buyers of products and services want a relationship that keeps them coming back.
Greg Alvo • Dec. 16, 2019 -
How diversity and inclusion improve your finance function
Rethink your approach to recruitment by conducting talent outreach beyond your historical recruiting channels, SAP North America CFO Anthony Coletta says.
Anthony Coletta • Dec. 5, 2019 -
Data democracy means making smarter decisions, but we're not there yet
A whopping 93% of participants in a survey cited people, not the technology, as holding back the progress of digital transformation of companies.
Dina Kholkar • Oct. 21, 2019 -
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3 reasons why M&A efforts fail
Companies conduct due diligence to discover why they shouldn't buy a company, but the mechanics of the process shouldn't kill deals. Unfortunately, that happens too often.
Kison Patel • Oct. 10, 2019 -
Why heads of IT should report to the chief people officer, not the CFO
IT and finance no longer have the same relationship they did 10 years ago.
Matt Harris • Sept. 23, 2019 -
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Nearly half of finance staff still receive invoices by fax
Nearly 45% of payments take more than a week to process, in part because they remain overwhelmingly paper-based.
Matt Clark • Sept. 8, 2019 -
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Finance teams must step up to guide company digital transformation
CFOs should create and lead a cross-functional team when it's time to get serious about digitally transforming their company.
Jason Lin • Aug. 14, 2019 -
As simple as it sounds, just identifying your leases is the highest hurdle to new FASB standards
CFOs of private companies don't have much time to comply with new lease accounting standards even if FASB extends the start date a year, as it has proposed.
Marc Betesh • Aug. 2, 2019
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