Technology
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Private capital targeting 5G, AI next year in M&A
Private equity and venture capital firms have declining M&A interest in real estate, media, retail and biotech, a BDO survey shows.
By Robert Freedman • Dec. 12, 2019 -
Finance has gone digital. How did we get here?
Ash Noah of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants explains what precipitated finance's move toward automation, and how CFOs can best prepare.
By Jane Thier • Dec. 10, 2019 -
Lime, other dockless scooters face winding path to profitability
Strewing scooters across a city for people to ride is a viable business model if the industry can pass a cost test.
By Robert Freedman • Dec. 10, 2019 -
Transformation of GE's closing process aims to improve finance jobs, CFO says
The company created a data lake to help organize a system that includes thousands of legal entities, many of which use their own ERP software.
By Robert Freedman • Dec. 09, 2019 -
How CFOs can lead digitization efforts in 4 steps
Ash Noah has spent his career helping CFOs adopt new technology and restructure their businesses. He told CFO Dive the four integral steps to spearhead those initiatives.
By Jane Thier • Dec. 09, 2019 -
How to transition from a static to a rolling forecast
Tools available today to help you sharpen your insights can't work if you're still using a static forecasting process, a consultant says.
By Robert Freedman • Dec. 04, 2019 -
CFOs urged to put people first as they transform accounting function
Your finance operation will certainly be automated; it's just a matter of when. Identifying solid opportunities for your talent ahead of time is imperative.
By Robert Freedman • Dec. 02, 2019 -
Twitter CFO: Communication health comes first
Ned Segal told finance professionals at the MIT Sloan CFO Summit Thursday the health of their communication model comes before everything, including getting more people on the service.
By Jane Thier • Nov. 22, 2019 -
United Airlines CFO: Boeing 737 MAX grounding increases operational costs
As the Boeing jetliner remains grounded, United tallies the costs.
By Jane Thier • Nov. 14, 2019 -
Jason Schenker: Big data is where your company will make its money soon
Technology will create more great jobs than it kills, according to the chair of the Futurist Institute.
By Robert Freedman • Nov. 14, 2019 -
Cybersecurity is latest CFO domain, study finds
A Protiviti study found nearly all of 800 global finance leaders surveyed agreed data security is a priority.
By Jane Thier • Nov. 11, 2019 -
Assess product, back office before moving to recurring revenue model
Success with subscription pricing depends on whether you've laid the groundwork, executive says.
By Robert Freedman • Nov. 09, 2019 -
Nonfinance metric helped CFO diagnose strategic error
Fast churn rate showed that the software was too complex for small organizations, SaaS executive says.
By Robert Freedman • Nov. 03, 2019 -
Deep DiveWhat industry gets wrong about cyber insurance
Despite common perception, recovery from a cyber event — such as paying a ransom — cannot be decided by a carrier.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Oct. 31, 2019 -
Scenario planning key to overcoming macro events, CFO says
Host Analytics CFO Dan Fletcher names the 2008 global meltdown as the time when CFOs began taking a forward-looking approach to their strategic insights.
By Robert Freedman • Oct. 30, 2019 -
Q&AWhich KPIs are worth tracking?
Srinivas Pothireddy, vice president at Apps Associates, told CFO Dive which metrics to analyze and which to ignore for meeting today's digitized demands.
By Jane Thier • Oct. 30, 2019 -
Hand menial tasks to bots to reach ROI in 2 years, Infosys exec says
By freeing up your staff to work on higher-level strategic initiatives, you reduce the cost measurably within the office of the CFO, Infosys Consulting Senior Partner Alex Collevecchio tells CFO Dive.
By Jane Thier • Oct. 29, 2019 -
Finance chiefs demand digital transformation to show its value
As executives grapple with a possible recession, readjusting and slashing technology budgets is not the way to endure, analysts say.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Oct. 28, 2019 -
Citrix CFO faces challenge in shift to subscription-based licensing model
Arlen Shenkman joined the remote-access workspace platform company in September in part to change the way it charges for its services.
By Robert Freedman • Oct. 27, 2019 -
6 predictions from Gartner could reshape C-suite priorities
By 2023, the analyst firm sees "augmented humans" becoming a ubiquitous part of the workforce. It's one of many changes set to reshape industry in the coming years.
By Roberto Torres • Oct. 25, 2019 -
Senators press AWS on cloud security, call for FTC investigation
The Senators want to know whether Amazon Web Services' "failure to secure" servers used by Capital One "violated federal law."
By Naomi Eide • Oct. 25, 2019 -
New metrics for improving visibility into company performance
Finance metrics are lagging indicators, so you need to centralize collection of other performance measures to forecast future value.
By Robert Freedman • Oct. 23, 2019 -
9 key digital transformation mistakes — and how to avoid them
Failure to grasp the full impact of the digital age and unwillingness to plan accordingly will run more businesses into the ground.
By Roberto Torres • Oct. 23, 2019 -
CMA CGM offers financing, extended payment deadlines for shippers
The French carrier seeks to offer financial relief in the form of improved cash flow to companies working to mitigate the instability of the current trade environment.
By Morgan Forde • Oct. 22, 2019 -
Inframark's cloud rollout in HR, payroll yields 'massive saving,' CFO says
When the program went live, "only three to four people had problems with their pay slip, which is phenomenal," Inframark CFO John Freebody told CFO Dive.
By Jane Thier • Oct. 20, 2019
