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Why CFOs could unlock economic growth

CFO Talks

Finding enlightenment in Indian While attending last year’s International Federation of Accountants conference in India, Nicolaas van Wyk, CIBA’s CEO, came across an enlightening idea. “There were about 30 to 40 000 accountants, mostly from India. We want to move the focus of the CFO towards Africa. It was like a mantra.

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How an EPM Solution Supports Managing Economic Uncertainty

Jedox Finance

Dean Boyer as a guest to the Jedox Blog for our series on “Managing Uncertainty” Mr. Boyer is a Director of Technology Services at Marks Paneth LLP, a premier accounting firm based in the United States. He shares his expertise on how an EPM solution supports managing economic uncertainty, particularly in times of crisis.

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Best Practices from the CFO Suite

BlueLight

Forward In the current economic crisis, business leaders from early-stage startups to large multinational corporations have had to make difficult decisions. The financial implication of these decision is critical and the CFO is the executive helping the CEO navigate these decisions. This task falls to the finance leader.” “The

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12 Best Paying Jobs in Finance in 2023

CFO News Room

And while there’s no guarantee that any job will be immune to cutbacks or layoffs, some industries weather economic storms better than others. As a financial executive, the chief financial officer (CFO) is responsible for the financial health of an organization. Budget analysts typically work in the government or for accounting firms.

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Podchats for FutureCFO: Action items to accelerate finance transformation

Future CFO

Sanjay Patil , executive partner for finance and supply chain transformation at IBM Consulting , ASEAN, says the CFO role is evolving and is now aligned with the priorities of the CEO for the organisation including improved efficiencies and customer experience. Why is artificial intelligence important to the CFO and the finance team?

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Advice for Startups from your Financial Partner

BlueLight

These businesses ranged from seed stage companies where the CEO was the finance leader to growth stage companies with an in-house CFO. In these conversations, I observed each finance leader had a different perspective and approach with their financial accounting partner. Startups often leave bookkeeping tasks with us.

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How FinTech Helps SMBs Get A Grip On The Numbers

PYMNTS

. “A lot of work today is using machine learning to learn from the experience that humans have in terms of their deep accounting knowledge,” he explained, adding that that expertise includes everything from core accounting knowledge to finance, economics and the “basic principles of running a business.”

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