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Opinion
Finance’s new mandate: Unlocking the story behind the numbers
AI is making it easier for finance to connect the dots, but better forecasting still depends on people who understand the business, tech executive Mike Nader writes.
By Mike Nader • July 14, 2026 -
Fintech Bottomline offers stablecoin-friendly CFO suite
The company is betting stablecoins will gain traction across corporate payment, treasury and liquidity workflows.
By Alexei Alexis • July 14, 2026 -
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To stay competitive many CFOs are focused on balancing AI’s risks and opportunities while also adjusting to fast-changing tariff policies and labor markets.
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Sponsored by KPMG
The IPO readiness gaps digital asset firms should focus on
Digital asset IPOs require more than growth. Here’s where readiness gaps emerge.
By Adam Perotta • July 13, 2026 -
Sponsored by Intuit Enterprise Suite
The hours behind the numbers: What finance leaders gain when the manual work disappears
CFOs see what is possible when AI absorbs the operational burden.
By Emily Fowler • July 13, 2026 -
PepsiCo CFO says tariff refund will help offset inflation
“We do expect some more pressure on the business from a commodity standpoint,” CFO Steve Schmitt said on an earnings call.
By Alexei Alexis • July 10, 2026 -
Deep Dive
7 CFO risks from the high-stakes adoption of AI
“There’s a risk of losing people who don’t want to innovate or who are scared of how this plays out,” Nintex CFO Burt Chao said.
By Jim Tyson • July 10, 2026 -
AI, M&A demands test CFOs as dealmaking rebounds: Bain
CFOs face a “big capital allocation question” as some of their M&A ambitions and AI priorities collide, Bain’s Suzanne Kumar said.
By Alexei Alexis • July 9, 2026 -
Deep Dive
Peril and promise: The high-stakes CFO challenge of AI adoption
CFOs are in danger of falling prey to bated-breath predictions of how AI will transform humankind more profoundly than prior bold leaps in technology.
By Jim Tyson • July 9, 2026 -
Finance salaries rise 6% amid talent crunch: Controllers Council
Competitive pay ranks as the top strategy organizations are using to attract and retain finance professionals.
By Alexei Alexis • July 8, 2026 -
AlphaSense CFO talks metrics, hiring and consumption-based pricing
The company is delivering hypergrowth at scale, which requires CFO Samantha Greenberg to be more thoughtful about key metrics, she said.
By Grace Noto • July 8, 2026 -
Deep Dive
Digital ID and payments turn to your face
As mobile devices and government regulators embrace facial recognition technology, your face is becoming both wallet and identification.
By Justin Bachman • July 7, 2026 -
SpaceX acquisition target launches CFO council to crack AI’s ROI puzzle
The effort by AI coding platform Cursor is aimed at achieving a shared framework for making AI investments “more measurable, predictable and efficient.”
By Alexei Alexis • July 7, 2026 -
Data ‘tollgating’ compounds SaaS cost headaches for CFOs
Organizations are getting stuck with unexpected IT costs as the data they thought they owned is being sold back to them by vendors, Deloitte said.
By Alexei Alexis • July 7, 2026 -
Tech accounts for nearly a third of US layoffs in H1: Challenger
Sector job cuts jumped 83% from January through June on a year-over-year basis as AI rattles the workforce.
By Alexei Alexis • July 1, 2026 -
Q&A
Anthropic tie-up is a ‘step change,’ KPMG exec says
KPMG announced a global alliance with Anthropic in May, shortly after the AI giant lauched new Claude financial agents.
By Maura Webber Sadovi • June 30, 2026 -
Opinion
Before turning tax work over to AI, ask these 4 questions
AI-fueled errors can be polished and seemingly authoritative — making them especially treacherous in accounting, writes Thomson Reuters’ David Wong.
By David Wong • June 30, 2026 -
Firms with concrete AI strategies beat peers in stock gains, study finds
Investors tend to reward companies that set clear and quantified AI objectives over those relying on vague narratives, according to the analysis.
By Alexei Alexis • June 30, 2026 -
Sponsored by Board
Autonomous FP&A is here. Is your governance infrastructure ready?
A key question for CFOs: with AI playing an increasing role in decision-making, what is the impact on accountability?
June 29, 2026 -
Sponsored by U.S. Bank
Why finance teams keep stalling on digital transformation
The gap between ambition and execution is real, but it's not inevitable.
June 29, 2026 -
Microsoft beefs up Copilot in Excel for finance work
New Copilot features let finance teams teach it how to perform recurring spreadsheet-heavy tasks.
By Alexei Alexis • June 26, 2026 -
AI cost challenges mount as agent use gets more complex: KPMG
Only 26% of organizations have real-time visibility into the cost of running AI at scale, the research found.
By Alexei Alexis • June 25, 2026 -
Maxima rolls out AI agent for enterprise accounting
The San Mateo, California-based company’s new “Max” handles a range of work including payroll entries previously managed by multiple AI agents.
By Maura Webber Sadovi • June 23, 2026 -
From unpaid CFO gigs to scaling an AI robotics startup
Bas Lustenhouwer once worked for free to break into startup finance — a path that ultimately led him to the CFO seat at AI robotics firm Dexory.
By Alexei Alexis • June 23, 2026 -
CFOs lag in AI readiness as ROI pressures rise: EY
Most finance leaders still favor “defensive” AI use cases such as fraud detection over growth-focused ones like forecasting or pricing, the study found.
By Alexei Alexis • June 23, 2026 -
Frontier Climate adds Anthropic to buyers group, makes new financing pledge
The company behind AI tool Claude joins the carbon removal purchasing group, which also announced $915 million in new financing commitments.
By Lamar Johnson • June 22, 2026