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Finance Operations Pros face new Excel “game changer”

The Finance Weekly

Finance operations managers are the backbone of the CFO’s Office They have primary responsibility for supporting accounting and finance applications, accounting systems and other core plumbing including time entry, conflicts, collections, matter opening, and financial reporting. Though this promise seems a long way off.

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5 Excel-heavy Pain Points still Dragging down finance teams in 2024

The Finance Weekly

When you’re making small-talk with someone who isn’t in finance or accounting about how work is going, and they answer with “busy,” do you ever question how hard it really is? They have a five person accounting team who spend an unwieldy amount of time dumping data from NetSuite into Excel.

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CFO Pros on the Move: March

The Finance Weekly

Varma began her career in accounting at KPMG. She joined Root in April 2019 as the Chief Accounting Officer and has been serving as the company's deputy CFO since November 2022. It's worth noting that the misconduct was unrelated to Root's financials or financial reporting.

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Essentials to successful finance transformation

Future CFO

Gartner surveys looking to 2022 show that CFOs, controllers and heads of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) are all focused on digital initiatives that will lay critical groundwork for an autonomous future. Cedric Assaouloff , digital and innovation lead at R&D finance pharmaceutical company F.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

Barry Ritholtz

Every now and then I’m horrified to see people not have attorneys, not have accountants, sign documents. I’m not going to be available, but I need you to send me the following financial reports.” To which he replied to me and he said, I don’t have access to those financial reports.