How to build your treasury playbook for a competitive edge

Companies often focus on boosting sales or streamlining operations, but have you considered the role of the finance team?

Feb. 10, 2025

Jobless rate falls, bolstering bets Fed will next cut main rate in June

Employment gains for November and December were revised up in total by 100,000, the Labor Department said.

By Jim Tyson • Feb. 7, 2025

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Digital transformation, one smart step at a time

As pricing pressures tighten margins and technologies like agentic AI evolve, finance chiefs are more closely scrutinizing the cost and returns of the tech tools they implement.

By CFO Dive staff

Finance job hunt essentials: Soft skills, tailored resumes and social media

With the “great stay” period leaving more workers feeling stuck, it’s important for job hunters to use a range of tools to seize any employment opportunities that do emerge. 

By Chris Gaetano • Feb. 7, 2025

Salesforce director named chief of operations, finance

The software giant is among a growing list of companies that have decided to merge the CFO and COO roles.

By Alexei Alexis • Feb. 6, 2025

PCAOB warns auditors of risks from lax oversight of specialists

Specialists who use artificial intelligence pose a growing challenge to auditors and, in turn, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

By Jim Tyson • Feb. 6, 2025

Service sector expands in the face of trade war risk: ISM

Service sector executives voiced concern that tariffs will push up prices and cause shortages of goods, ISM said.

By Jim Tyson • Feb. 5, 2025

Alphabet projects $75B in capex as AI push grows: CFO

Big tech continues to invest heavily in AI even as investors nervously watch for indications that it’s paying off.

By Alexei Alexis • Feb. 5, 2025

Ransomware payments fell 35% in 2024

Cyberattacks using ransomware spiked in the second half of the year, but fewer victims paid up.

By Rob Wright • Feb. 5, 2025

Costco’s ‘voice’: The long goodbye

Richard Galanti retired from the warehouse club on Jan. 30, after pivoting to an advisory role following his departure from the CFO seat he held for roughly four decades.

By Maura Webber Sadovi • Feb. 5, 2025

Companies reduce philanthropy aimed at boosting racial, gender equality

Change in “corporate citizenship” initiatives coincide with a federal backlash against efforts to promote sustainability in the private and public sectors.

By Jim Tyson • Feb. 4, 2025

China responds to Trump with added tariffs on certain products

The new duties are set to take effect Feb. 10 and cover some car, equipment and energy imports.

By Max Garland • Feb. 4, 2025

AI agents may cause some finance jobs to ‘disappear’: Microsoft exec

Microsoft’s Georg Glantschnig said the software giant envisions every business process being impacted by the emerging technology.

By Alexei Alexis • Feb. 4, 2025

DeepSeek surge hits companies, posing security risks

The Trump administration is scrutinizing the AI app, Italy and Taiwan have banned it, and companies have blocked it.

By Alexei Alexis • Feb. 4, 2025

US manufacturing grows despite risk of tariff-triggered trade war

Confidence among manufacturers last month rose to the highest level in nearly three years.

By Jim Tyson • Feb. 3, 2025

Trump tariff fallout: The first 3 days

President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China set off a fast-paced chain of events after landing on Saturday.

By Maura Webber Sadovi • Updated Feb. 3, 2025

Inflation meets Fed expectations, affirming hold on main interest rate

“I would like to see progress in lowering inflation resume before we make further adjustments” to the main interest rate, Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said.

By Jim Tyson • Jan. 31, 2025

Orbia’s CFO on tracking tariff news ‘minute by minute’

The multinational industrial products has strategized for months in anticipation of U.S. tariffs against Mexico that are now poised to go into effect Saturday.

By Maura Webber Sadovi • Jan. 31, 2025

Security tool consolidation boosts efficiency, threat mitigation

A study from IBM shows the controversial shift to platformization can pay off for enterprises. 

By David Jones • Jan. 31, 2025

CFO Dive’s 2025 outlook roundup: Trends to watch

In the new year, financial executives must prepare for significant federal policy shifts as well as for the next chapter in the still-unfolding story of generative AI.

By CFO Dive Staff • Jan. 31, 2025

Microsoft races to bring more cloud capacity online

Enterprise AI workloads and OpenAI training consumed Azure resources last year. “We have been short power and space,” CFO Amy Hood said.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 30, 2025

Trump’s softer-touch SEC may ease CFO regulatory burden

By slimming the SEC’s budget, headcount and regulatory scope, a new agency chief would fall in step with Trump’s cost-cutting and efficiency campaign.

By Jim Tyson • Jan. 30, 2025

Fed holds main rate steady as Trump tariff threat poses inflation risk

Central bank policymakers, in a unanimous decision, paused monetary easing while noting that inflation remains above their 2% target.

By Jim Tyson • Updated Jan. 29, 2025

Victoria’s Secret taps former Joann exec for CFO seat

The transition comes as the lingerie retailer is pursuing a turnaround under a new CEO following market share declines and other challenges.

By Alexei Alexis • Jan. 29, 2025

SAP CFO: DeepSeek AI disruption is ‘very good news’

The Chinese startup's sudden rise has prompted mixed reactions, with President Trump calling the development a “wake-up call.”

By Alexei Alexis • Jan. 28, 2025

Trump order shifts AI policy away from Biden-era risk focus

The order calls for federal agencies to nix Biden policies that are deemed a threat to AI innovation.

By Alexei Alexis • Jan. 28, 2025