Future CFO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

According to Susanna Hasenoehrl , head of sustainability for Asia Pacific & Japan at enterprise application software company SAP , sustainability can no longer be considered separately to the finance function because it is increasingly clear that sustainability performance is fundamentally linked to business performance.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The accounts payable (AP) department goes beyond just ensuring that all bills and invoices are cleared on time. Choosing the right accounts payable (AP) system can feel overwhelming. This SAP Concur eBook highlights eight questions that you should ask about your organisation’s AP system.

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Future CFO

MARCH 29, 2021

FutureCFO spoke to Marcus Rex, managing director for Asia-Pacific, xSuite, for his perspective on how finance automation in general, and accounts payable in particularly, can help transform finance into a profit centre. Myths around accounts payable (AP) automation. Recurring pain points in accounts payables.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The Financial Planning and Analysis ( FP&A ) team performs budgeting, forecasting, and analysis that support major corporate decisions of the CFO, the CEO, and the Board of Directors. The job of managing a corporation’s cash flow typically falls to its FP&A team and its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Please elaborate.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 24, 2021

Considering my finance background, I will discuss the importance of sustainability from a CFO perspective, especially why it is important for CFOs and how they are in the best position to drive sustainability within their organisations. Why is sustainability reporting critical for a CFO?

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Future CFO

JANUARY 18, 2023

For managers, if you can’t see all the spending impacting your budgets, cash flow, and accounts payable, how can you actively influence it? Click on the link to download this SAP Concur tip sheet for insights into how you can see it all so you can manage it strategically.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 18, 2023

Among participants in the 2022 SAP Concur Global business Travel Manager Report , 49% noted increasing pressure from senior leadership to demonstrate ROI will make their job more challenging in the next 12 months, compared to the previous year.

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Future CFO

MARCH 1, 2023

With the CFO being one of the key architects of an organisation’s digital transformation, Gartner says the CFO needs a finance function that drives the strategic ambitions of the enterprise. “To They also help to ensure accountability and alignment across the organisation.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 30, 2021

What makes for a sought-after chief finance professional (CFO)? These days, strong computer skills, as are advanced knowledge of accounting, budgeting, and finances. CFO: The disruption of 2020 highlighted the need for the finance function to be more responsive – continually re-evaluating both short and long-term goals and strategies.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In addition to three 2024 predictions for finance from SAP Concur executives , today we have two more from the company in the area of how cost-cutting measures will affect business travel as well as how corporate social responsibility (CSR), new distribution capability, and AI might change business travel.

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Bramasol

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Last year's post " Overview of GROW and RISE with SAP " was one of the most popular and widely shared episodes in this blog series and so it is now time to take another visit to these topics. In this new post, we explore both the progress SAP has made with RISE and GROW evolution and a look at the exciting opportunities going forward.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 24, 2020

At the time of this crisis, where uncertainty takes centre stage, organisations are looking at the CFO to ensure business continuity. A CFO’s priority, from a technology perspective, is to have a platform to enable team coordination with access to real-time information and increased automation to be more productive.

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Future CFO

MAY 22, 2022

FutureCFO spoke to Achim Wenning , a partner at consultancy Horváth & Partners , to get his perspective on sustainability practices important to the CFO and the C-suite. For example, without special customising and manual adjustments, there is no information on a company's current emissions in its ERP system such as SAP S/4 HANA.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 18, 2023

Click on the link to download this SAP Concur for insights into 4 tips for making spending smarter decisions. DOWNLOAD NOW The post 4 tips for making smarter spending decisions appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Future CFO

MARCH 7, 2021

For today’s International Women’s Day special feature, FutureCFO invited several female CFOs and a senior exec from a finance professional society to share what they believe are practical ways to empower women and how female leaders can contribute to the finance profession in the new normal brought by the pandemic.

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Future CFO

MAY 23, 2021

In this SAP Concur guide, we’ve collected tips from our customers and inside experts on how to use SAP Concur solutions more effectively in this new work-from-home world and into the future. Click on the link to download this free SAP Concur guide to learn about the nine proven tips for controlling work-from-home costs.

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Future CFO

MAY 15, 2023

At SAP, my role is to guide finance leaders on their digital transformation journeys, and one of the key components nowadays is to manage inflation. Effective hedge accounting strategies can be executed with real-time visibility into FX and interest rate exposures, ensuring compliance with regulations such as EMIR and IFRS 9.

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Future CFO

MAY 15, 2022

Now, with remote and hybrid work commonplace, most invoices are delivered through employees’ and the finance team’s email accounts. SAP Concur hopes that regional governments already using PEPPOL could use their influence to encourage other countries transacting with it to adopt the system. in five days for sums up to AU$1 million.

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Future CFO

JULY 28, 2020

The SAP Concur 2020 survey, Finance in the New World of Work , revealed gaps in organisations’ expense management, business travel, and remote work processes. Andy Watson, senior vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific Japan and Greater China, SAP Concur. Source: Finance in the New World of Work, SAP Concur 2020.

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Future CFO

MAY 23, 2021

Click on the link and download this e-book from SAP Concur to find out more. Yes, it’s always been a struggle. And yes, the struggle is currently more acute. But no, control and compliance aren’t out of reach. DOWNLOAD NOW The post Cost and compliance. Two things you can still control appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

My many years of experience as a finance professional and ex-CFO tells me that for many initiatives, ease-of-use is often a big determinant of whether it ultimately sees traction. On the CFOs and finance managers’ end, they can establish compliant, accountable spending habits without impeding user convenience.

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Compliance SAP Finance Technology 40

Future CFO

MAY 23, 2021

Click on the link and download your free copy of the SAP Concur eBook. What’s the experience like for both back-office teams and end users? Automation helps to improve the employee experience and secures teams to focus on more valuable work.

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Planning SAP Prioritization Economics 40

CFO Talks

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Today’s podcast is sponsored by Draftworx, which provides automated drafting and working paper financial software to more than 8000 accounting and auditing firms and corporations. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants. Johannes, welcome and it’s good to have you on CFO Talks.

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Future CFO

MAY 23, 2021

Click on the link and download this SAP Concur ebook to learn how to bring order and oversight to spending – even as spending changes. . Knowing how to manage and control spend will allow you to feel more confident about where you stand, so that you can make smarter spending choices faster.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Editor’s Note: For our Female Leadership in Finance Series , FutureCFO editor Teresa Leung recently had a chat with Gina McNamara (pictured), Chief Financial Officer, SAP Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). The CFO, according to her, is much more than a number person and needs to take care of oneself and empower people beyond the finance team.

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Future CFO

MARCH 13, 2023

Threat to successful transformation Ash Noah In a blog, Ash Noah , VP and managing director of management accounting and ESG at AICPA-CIMA laments that an estimated 70% of digital transformations fail. Asked to name one technology he felt most supportive of the organisation's transformation effort, Assaouloff named SAP Cloud Analytics.

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Bramasol

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As one of SAP's longest serving partners, Bramasol has seen and participated in many major changes during our 25 years of working in the SAP ecosystem. When we express how excited we are with the new RISE with SAP initiative that was launched in Q1 2021, it comes with that deep history and perspective in mind.

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 30, 2022

After taking all of these unique considerations for small businesses into account, our team at The Finance Weekly has compiled a list of the 5 best FP&A solutions for small businesses. In 2018 , Jedox was awarded for Excellence in Budgeting Transformation, and won the CFO Innovation Editor’s Choice Award. Jedox Fun Fact.

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Bramasol

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this post, we shift gears to provide insights into the Professional Services arena, where Bramasol not only serves clients but we also participate as a leading services provider for SAP solutions. This requires building a team of senior consultants with years of hands-on experience in front-line conceptualization-to-implementation.

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CFO Thought Leader

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

P&G had hundreds of disparate setups that we had to bring into one system globally,” explains Coulter, recalling the effort behind the information systems upgrade with SAP software that many at the time (the year 2000) deemed to be a historic milestone not only for the packaged goods company but also for industry at large.

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 30, 2022

After taking all of these unique considerations for small businesses into account, our team at The Finance Weekly has compiled a list of the 5 best FP&A solutions for small businesses. In 2018 , Jedox was awarded for Excellence in Budgeting Transformation, and won the CFO Innovation Editor’s Choice Award. Jedox Fun Fact.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The CFO understands that this is not a matter of spend management but rather a matter of managing one of the biggest line items on the corporate P&L,” noted Jonathan Ebinger, BlueRun Ventures general partner, in another interview. We’re on the other side of that equation,” he said. We’re helping them spend more efficiently.”.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Chee Kien Loh These challenges create three major issues that every CFO is familiar with. Chee Kien Loh Finding your path: Navigating the EPM maze The modern CFO's journey towards a unified and efficient finance function is rarely linear. Imagine effortlessly accessing and analysing data from SAP HANA, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server.

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Future CFO

MARCH 27, 2023

To curb rogue spending, businesses need to rethink how the accounts payable (AP) process can be improved. A phased approach to automate accounts payable, reduce rogue spending, and conserve cash certainly would be a good start. The post Rein in rogue spending by automating accounts payable appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Future CFO

APRIL 7, 2022

Mark Wilfred , head of solutions consulting, Southeast Asia at SAP Concur , says the raison d'être for the stickiness of spreadsheets is familiarity. This difference also makes payment reconciliation more complicated from an accounting standpoint (e.g., Jenji’s core business is to ease expense reporting. Mark Wilfred. banking fees).

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Future CFO

MAY 16, 2022

“If you're going to drive a successful business transformation, it's really important that finance is part of that transformation,” said Richard McLean , senior vice president, head of global commercial finance at SAP. He cited the example of when SAP introduced a quote-to-cash process. Taking the lead. How you adopt them is important.

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Future CFO

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the finance function, basic accounting processes like accounts payable, payroll and purchasing are often allocated under the shared services model. This allows the organisation’s core finance and accounting (F&A) operations to concentrate on more strategic work, such as financial analysis and planning.

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