The Latest
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How can CFOs curb employee turnover rates?
The bottom line of replacing an employee far exceeds the cost of upping an existing employee's compensation. What is the CFO's role in improving retention?
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CFO uses forums to get tough love from customers
Life sciences payments company Greenphire is using unfiltered customer feedback to improve its software, CFO Sue Vestri says.
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M&A: Integration is in, holding companies are out
Setting up a holding company for an acquisition that expands the scope of a company's business might make sense temporarily, but integration can make a better long-term solution.
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Machine learning is nearly ubiquitous in finance, even if you don't know it
Many cloud-based finance and accounting functions already use AI that helps produce more accurate numbers than you otherwise could.
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Wyndham Hotels CFO moves to XPO Logistics
David Wyshner, who will start as finance chief on March 2, joins the supply chain provider amid its exploration of a potential sale or spinoff of its business units.
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Deep DiveCFO in the Know: Getting acquired in a 'snack-eat-snack' market
Small food companies often form in hopes of acquisition by giants like Hershey or Mondelez. How can CFOs best help their companies prepare for such large-scale acquisitions?
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Merck joins peers in spinning off lower growth drugs
Merck expects to receive up to $9 billion through a tax-free dividend and realize more than $1.5 billion in operating efficiencies by spinning out women's health and legacy drugs into a new company.
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CFOs less likely to blow whistle on fraud when under financial pressure
CFOs with accounting backgrounds are more likely to express fraud concerns to external resources than CFOs with banking or finance backgrounds, a study of Italian companies from the Journal of Business Ethics found.
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CFO embeds team members outside finance to improve analysis, morale
The organization of your finance team can help you separate the noise from the signal, Eventbrite CFO Lanny Baker says.
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OpinionYou'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.
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UBS global wealth management CAO replaces CFO
Amid a strategy overhaul announced last month, UBS is expected to cut the jobs of 500 senior wealth management employees.
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Survey: 60% of procurement leaders site risk from lack of financial transparency
Respondents in a Basware survey reported a direct correlation between their level of transparency and the success of their business.
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A consultancy CFO's No. 1 KPI
According to Halloran Consulting's Tania Zieja, there is one KPI that is vital for finance, accounting and HR.
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Pods enable CFO to keep drug manufacturing costs down
AVROBIO hopes to offer drug therapy for a disorder that can cost $14M over a lifetime to treat. CFO Erik Ostrowski is doing his part by raising capital and practicing frugality.
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Reimbursement plans seen as cost-saving alternative to group insurance
Federal rules allowing companies to give employees money to buy their health insurance in the individual market just took effect.
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Biotech chief accounting officer to step in as interim CFO
Brian Mueller, who has been at California-based pharmaceutical giant BioMarin for 18 years, is filling in for outgoing CFO Dan Spiegelman until a permanent replacement is named.
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Financial automation a must-have, CFO says
To stay competitive, companies must begin deploying technologies that can help them scale operations as their business grows, a survey shows.
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Projected profits, revenue among top KPI concerns for CFOs in 2020
The divide is stark between what finance executives and others in the c-suite worry about, research from Oracle NetSuite shows.
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What's the right forecasting method? It depends on your data.
Time-series forecasting is a method that goes back decades, but as new computational power provides new options, what's the best way to go?
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Making the most of new rules on goodwill impairment
New FASB rules for SEC-regulated companies only require one test to be met, but begin impairment calculations early to ensure accurate reporting.
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4-time CFO moves into 5th role at Allvue Systems
Brian Seldess, a CPA whose first roles were in business development and FP&A at American Express, started his fifth CFO job at software company Allvue Systems in December.
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Largest Boeing supplier CFO out amid compliance review
The CFO and the controller at Spirit AeroSystems have resigned and their replacements have been hired, the company says.
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2020 trends: Middle market CFOs ready to spend on growth
Few CFOs think the economy will become an issue requiring them to take a defensive posture, a BDO survey finds.
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How Lush ditched manual invoicing for automated accounts payable
Before 2017, the skincare company printed hundreds of thousands of supplier invoices annually. Now 92% of invoices are touchless.
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Making early-pay access a thing
Scot Parnell is deploying his financial services experience to help a startup evangelize a radical idea: let employees access their earned income as needed.
