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Beyond the Basics: 7 Key Focus Areas for New CFOs

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They play a crucial role in strategic planning, risk management, and driving innovation, extending their influence far beyond the finance department. Risk Management: Given the CFO’s role in identifying and mitigating risks, tasks related to safeguarding the company’s assets and financial health are critical.

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Data and analytics: Three imperatives that drive top trends in 2022

Future CFO

Data and analytics leaders should embrace three imperatives when leveraging the top trends for 2022 in their enterprise, said Gartner recently. As AI regulations proliferate globally, they are mandating certain auditable practices that ensure trust, transparency and consumer protection.

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Making the case for connecting the spreadsheet dots

Future CFO

This includes establishing clear data entry standards, validation rules, and periodic data audits. Integration and Automation CFOs should integrate spreadsheets with other financial systems and applications to ensure seamless data flow and reduce the risk of errors during manual data transfers.

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Standards for Carbon Accounting are Beginning to Take Shape

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Among the biggest developments is a new proposed rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that was published on March 21, 2022 for public comment over the next 60 days. The registrant’s governance of climate-related risks and relevant risk management processes; ? According to CFO.com , "The staff of the U.S.

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Preparing Your Finance Organization for the New Era of AI

CFO Leadership

While finance organizations are increasingly turning to AI to enhance their operations and streamline processes, leveraging AI capabilities to improve decision-making is in the early stages. Scenario analysis may also leverage AI to model various scenarios to better understand potential consequences of different decisions and market changes.

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Startup Roundup: Toward Payments Peace On Earth

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This time of year has been no different for these seven startups, all of which have launched new products and features, fielded new investor funding, upped the security ante and, in the spirit of the holidays, generally worked toward payments peace on Earth. Weeks and hours whirl away, and there always seems to be something going on.

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Keeping Third-Party Risk First On The Cybersecurity (Risk) List

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With the changing roles and demands tied to security, she said, efforts are going well beyond the questionnaires sent out to third-party vendors querying about the controls that they may have in place — in effect “going from ‘trust’ to ‘verify,’” as she put it, with even on-site, independent assessments an increasing occurrence.