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• How CFOs, supply chain leaders unlock value amid disruption

  Building a resilient supply chain is less about cost reduction and more about cost optimization, Stefan Reidy, CEO of cargo monitoring service Arviem, says.

  Stefan Reidy • Oct. 10, 2020

• To succeed post-COVID, CFOs need an attitude adjustment

  The CFO's past objectives were accommodating stakeholders, delivering the right numbers, and profitability. Now, they must center employee connection, wellness and satisfaction, Replicon CEO Lakshmi Raj says.

  Lakshmi Raj • Sept. 27, 2020

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  Using agile planning to return to growth

  Having a fully integrated, bottom-up and agile 12-month plan enables you and your team to react quickly when something like the pandemic comes your way. 

  Darrell Cox • Sept. 18, 2020

• Real-time planning helps CFOs answer pandemic-critical 'what if' questions

  To forecast today, think in shorter time horizons, identify how COVID-19 changes your business drivers, use large amounts of quality data to weigh "what if" scenarios, and create agile processes, specialists say. 

  Paul Prendergast and Patrick Picha • Aug. 27, 2020

• 3 tips for CFOs looking to migrate to a subscription pricing model

  Tip one: Resist moving revenue recognition outside of your ERP, otherwise you decrease visibility into the success of your subscription model and create reporting, tracking and compliance problems. 

  Katrina Gosek • Aug. 19, 2020

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  Making recovery audits part of your source-to-pay process

  Invoicing errors chip away at margins, eventually turning into large losses, which recovery audits can help address.

  Mark Irwin • Aug. 13, 2020

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  Understand your coverage options in the face of 2020's triple risk threat

  COVID-19, protest-related vandalism, and a severe hurricane season promise to test organizations' insurance against loss of business. 

  Joseph Galanti and Peter Halprin • July 27, 2020

• Preparing for risk the way insurers do

  Insurers manage their risks not just to preserve assets but to capitalize on their ability to price uncertainty, turning some risks into opportunities.

  Jim Toole • July 9, 2020

• Pandemic planning: The CFO's role translating vision into strategy, execution

  In today's environment, is it better to bundle a value-added service or to discount heavily to keep income up? This is the kind of question CFOs must answer to keep their companies nimble. 

  Jason Maynard • July 5, 2020

• How COVID-19 is changing conversations about going concern

  CFOs should expect more — and more targeted — questions as auditors try to get a picture of how well their organization is positioned to survive the downturn. 

  Bob Dohrer • June 30, 2020

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  5 transfer pricing actions to consider during COVID-19

  If your intercompany pricing policies are based on normally functioning markets, you could be faced with tax inefficiencies and distortion in how you allocate profits or losses.

  Barry Freeman and Selena Schneider • June 16, 2020

• Where do you fall on the CFO spectrum?

  You can have decades of financial management experience and get nowhere near a CFO office if you don’t bring the ability to modify your company’s growth strategy in the face of new competitors.

  Shawn Cole • June 8, 2020

• Using real-time data to set contract worker pay

  As shutdowns lift, companies are relying heavily on expensive contract workers without knowing what other companies are paying.

  Jesse Levin • May 27, 2020

• Growing value by stewarding company reputation

  CFOs who take a hands-on approach to managing their company’s reputational value send market signals that lead to improved equity and debt pricing. 

  Nir Kossovsky • May 18, 2020

• CFO collaboration with CIO is crucial amid COVID-19

  The CFO is adept at measuring costs, managing the balance sheet and navigating murky waters. But determining capabilities and staying ahead of tech trends requires partnership with the CIO.

  Tony Tricarichi • May 13, 2020

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  In crisis, not enough for processes to be on cloud; they need to be unified

  Stay-at-home mandates have shown how crucial cloud systems are for maintaining one's finance and accounting operations. But using a variety of systems will hinder your agility. 

  John O'Rourke • April 24, 2020

• How CFOs can lead through the coronavirus crisis — and beyond

  A focus on people, clear information to stakeholders and long-term value creation can lead your organization through the crisis, the head of the International Federation of Accountants said to finance leaders.

  Kevin Dancey • April 22, 2020

• Can COVID-19 get you out of a contract as a material adverse change?

  Whether you can cite the pandemic as a ground for getting out of a contract — or if someone can cite it against you — depends on subtleties of law. 

  Gary Kleinrichert, Brent Miller • April 15, 2020

• Filing for bankruptcy? Understand your lenders' leverage

  No one wants to consider bankruptcy. But as the downturn persists, CFOs will benefit from understanding their lenders' tactical goals.

  Kenneth Rosen • April 4, 2020

• 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

• 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

• 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

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