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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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