The Charity CFO

MARCH 22, 2024

Leveraging Data in Nonprofit Leadership How can you use data effectively as a nonprofit leader? In addition to identifying KPIs, you’ll need to establish benchmarks for success. After choosing KPIs and their benchmarks, you can start incorporating data insights into strategic planning. Get the free guide!

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Leadership Benchmarking Leverage 52

VCFO

MARCH 2, 2023

Some may think that makes financial management and strategic planning in a professional services firm simpler. This approach often manifests itself through mental exercises of “we did X in revenue this year and want to do Y% more next year,” but lacks sufficient thought and planning as to how that’s going to happen.

Strategic Planning 64

Strategic Planning CFO Budgeting Planning 64

Centage

JANUARY 18, 2024

Finance teams often get asked to do more with less, which makes it important that you adopt the right FP&A tools to amplify your capabilities and create more time for strategic planning. Stronger interdepartmental communication and collaboration is a good benchmark to set as a best practice for this year.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 40

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Data Analysis Leverage Risk Management 40

Future CFO

AUGUST 30, 2021

According to Payscale.com , skills such as leadership, and financial reporting and strategic planning, won’t elevate your take-home pay much. These days, strong computer skills, as are advanced knowledge of accounting, budgeting, and finances. What makes for a sought-after chief finance professional (CFO)?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance CFO Problem Solving 52

CFO Talks

MARCH 19, 2024

This list should encompass both quick wins, such as automating invoice processing to improve cash flow management, and long-term objectives, like integrating AI-driven analytics for more accurate financial forecasting and strategic planning. Fostering Commitment to Change True leadership is shown by example.

CFO 52

CFO Communication Finance Budgeting 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

BUCKLEY: I think it’s one huge lesson for us, and it’s brought out in our leadership team. And we had prioritized all our strategic plans, we had to figure out how to get them done while people were remote. You’d hope for information ratio, but you have a bigger risk budget or standard deviation.

Leadership 108

Leadership Investments Profit and Loss Technology 108

Planful

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Among the many great topics on the agenda at the Argyle CFO Leadership Forum in Dallas was a session titled “Managing and Minimizing Enterprise Risk.” One recommendation was to establish baselines for the business based on prior experience, or to use external benchmarking information to evaluate performance and risk.

Risk Management 40

Risk Management CFO Budgeting Benchmarking 40