CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Historically, CFOs have been primarily responsible for financial reporting, budgeting, and compliance. These silos create barriers that hinder communication, collaboration, and alignment across the organisation. Furthermore, CFOs can leverage technology to facilitate cross-functional collaboration.

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Planful

JULY 14, 2016

Measuring and monitoring business performance relies on a process of defining clear objectives, planning and budgeting, and evaluating progress at established intervals to ensure the company is keeping pace with their outlined objectives. Using Performance Management Software to Leverage Analytics.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 7, 2024

By leveraging advanced analytics and cloud technology, CFOs can drive strategic insights, improve forecasting accuracy, and optimise cash management. CFOs must also be well-versed in leveraging emerging technologies to boost their business performance. The post The risks CFOs must face in 2024 appeared first on FutureCFO.

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CFO Simplified

MARCH 11, 2024

While not always necessary, having a simple salary structure and pay ranges provides a clear framework and market reference for decision making and communication. Both should be just detailed enough to guide and promote career mobility and pay transparency but as simple as possible to administer and communicate. Incentive Plans.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 19, 2024

By distilling these goals into a concise list and communicating them consistently—whether in formal presentations or casual discussions—the CFO ensures everyone understands and aligns with the finance department’s direction. This might involve enhancing digital finance capabilities or adopting sustainable business practices.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 22, 2024

Leveraging data for strategic decision-making has many benefits–from improving your efficiency to increasing the success rate of campaigns or strategies. Leveraging Data in Nonprofit Leadership How can you use data effectively as a nonprofit leader? Check out these tips for leveraging data as a nonprofit leader.

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Michigan CFO

JUNE 7, 2023

Virtual CFOs leverage cloud-based accounting systems, collaborative tools, and remote communication to provide financial services to businesses on a part-time or “fractional” basis. Additionally, strong communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and adaptability are crucial for effectively serving clients in a virtual capacity.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As while advisors certainly can leverage technology to create faster and more efficient back-office processes that help scale a growing practice, the key point is that new technology tools can also help advisors engage in better conversations through innovative presentation tools (e.g.,

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Fpanda Club

MARCH 28, 2021

This article describes the FP&A maturity assessment model focused on major tasks of the function (strategic planning and budgeting, forecasting, analytics, management reporting, performance management and decision support) and built around 3 key areas – processes, tools/systems and people.

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 18, 2024

Review your nonprofit budget and cash flow data to find areas for improvement. Nonprofit Technology Integration and Data Security One of the best things you can do for your nonprofit is to start leveraging data. Strategies to Leverage Data and Keep it Safe There are several ways to use technology while also ensuring data security.

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Adam Kae

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Clearly communicate your intentions, set expectations, and establish boundaries. Key Takeaway: Honest communication builds a foundation of trust between your agency and top-talent candidates. Strategic Fractional CFOs understand the importance of timing in budget allocation. Partner with a growth-focused CFO to help you.

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Spreadym

JUNE 27, 2023

It involves forecasting, budgeting, analyzing, and reporting financial information to support strategic planning and operational decision-making. Budgeting : Financial Planning and Analysis teams develop budgets that align with the organization's strategic goals and financial forecasts. The primary objectives of FP&A.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 12, 2024

AI makes FP&A teams more agile Business executives expect their FP&A teams to create a variety of scenarios, budgets, and projections daily or weekly in light of rapid economic changes. Cloud-based financial management platforms (FPM) leverage AI to generate scenarios much faster than manual processes.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 14, 2024

We emphasized the importance of communication, setting priorities, and the initial avoidance of hasty decisions. Leveraging Technology: In today’s data-driven environment, tasks that involve implementing or improving technological solutions should be high on the CFO’s priority list.

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E78 Partners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To guarantee they remain on the right course, having a solid plan and budget in place is paramount for ensuring success. Business Planning and Budgeting (BP&B) is a strategic, operational, and financial management process that organizations use to plan, allocate resources, and manage their business performance effectively.

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Strategic Treasurer

MAY 23, 2022

Congratulations, you have done your hard work to gather resources, line up your teams, plan your budget, complete your RFP process and select the perfect fit solution for your company. Insufficient budget. How to ensure good communication between vendors and clients post-implementation. Original timelines aren’t being met.

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Collectiv

JUNE 13, 2023

Solid processes around nonprofit data give you critical information to highlight unique aspects of your organization, boost morale, increase credibility, enhance transparency, and build community awareness to support your mission. Let’s look at three ways to leverage Power BI for nonprofits so you can use your data effectively.

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The Finance Weekly

APRIL 12, 2022

Connect with the heads of your sales and marketing departments, as well as the budget owners, to learn what works and what doesn't. When it comes to the annual budgeting process, building a rapport with these department heads will go a long way. Budgeting and resource allocation are two processes worth mentioning.

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Collectiv

JULY 17, 2023

To increase the product’s value to its customers, Brian aimed to develop visualization capabilities to help auditors easily communicate their results. What they needed was an expert perspective to guide them on the right path, helping them implement Power BI to fully leverage the power of visualization.

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The Charity CFO

JUNE 7, 2023

This information is crucial for financial planning, budgeting, and identifying potential areas of revenue growth. Stakeholder Communication : Serves as a transparent communication tool for stakeholders, including donors, board members, and grant-making organizations. cash, investments, receivables) and liabilities (e.g.,

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Collectiv

AUGUST 7, 2023

Enterprises must use the right reporting tools to generate insights and leverage vast amounts of financial data effectively. Dave appreciated Collectiv’s professionalism and communication skills so much that the Collectiv team was able to be directly involved in their client meetings.

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Centage

JANUARY 18, 2024

Stronger interdepartmental communication and collaboration is a good benchmark to set as a best practice for this year. Here are some more key practices that leverage technology to enhance collaboration, streamline accurate forecasting and reporting, and unlock more time for high-value strategic analysis.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Evidence suggests that one of the most effective ways they can continue to engage their member bases is to roll out personalized services, such as financial management and budgeting tools, card management options and targeted marketing initiatives. For more on these stories and other CU headlines, read the Tracker’s News and Trends.

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Navigator SAP

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Automating and streamlining tasks related to budgeting, cost and cash management, activity-based costing, and other accounting or finance functions also helps ensure compliance with financial regulations. Customer Relationship Management Many ERP platforms contain modules that focus on how the business communicates with customers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This growing adoption of automation should be balanced with investments in customer relations, however, as customers often feel that their needs are not being prioritized if they are prompted to communicate with chatbots. A study found that FinTechs spend 70 percent of th eir budgets on innovation, while banks typically spend 35 percent.

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Future CFO

APRIL 6, 2021

More than four in five (83%) Singaporean finance professionals needed to do financial planning and budgeting at least two or more times in the year, to ensure their organisations remained agile and are able to adapt to the fast-changing business environment, according to survey results.

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The Charity CFO

AUGUST 15, 2023

Accountants deserve positions that leverage technology to improve the department and the organization and when they don’t get that, it creates a challenge. In some cases, they’ll also be responsible for communicating with grantors. Budgeting and Planning Budgeting and planning are two essential aspects of a nonprofit accounting system.

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The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Through advanced analytics and cloud solutions, CFOs can leverage strategic insights to enhance forecasting, optimize cash management, and reconsider organizational frameworks. The , CFO and finance team must enhance skills in data, analytics, and human aspects like influence, communication, relationship-building, and self-leadership.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Triggers might be the new budget season, an annual strategy review, or when new people join the team. The mentor also benefits from a boost to their confidence and communication skills. For teams that don’t do project-based work, leaders should find time to periodically hold “re-kick” meetings.

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Fpanda Club

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Moreover, dealing with data and technologies within finance function gives them an opportunity to become digital leaders and contribute to spreading digitalization enterprise-wide facilitating communication between IT and business.

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Collectiv

OCTOBER 17, 2022

These visuals are powerful on their own, and they can easily be added to PowerPoint presentations, websites, PDF flyers, and all kinds of communications. With both financial and resource planning data in the same place, government agencies have access to a detailed budget overview in one document. Financial Analysis Report in Power BI.

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Collectiv

OCTOBER 17, 2022

These visuals are powerful on their own, and they can easily be added to PowerPoint presentations, websites, PDF flyers, and all kinds of communications. With both financial and resource planning data in the same place, government agencies have access to a detailed budget overview in one document. Financial Analysis Report in Power BI.

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The Finance Weekly

MAY 5, 2024

This plan covers everything from activities and target markets to budget, resources, and market positioning. Ensuring that the budget is in line with these elements to meet set objectives is equally important. By having a robust sales plan in place, businesses can track growth, recurring revenue, and overall financial health.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

They generally have smaller budgets as well, which make them unlikely to take on new products to upgrade services that work adequately. Business owners are rapidly selecting SpotOn as their go-to technology partner, and we’re excited to continue building SpotOn into a household name within the business community and beyond.”.

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Future CFO

MARCH 1, 2023

Part of a finance transformation initiative could entail adopting enterprise applications to automate or digitalise manual expense processes, at the same time leveraging data and analytics to help gain greater control and deeper insights into spend and operations. Let’s use the implementation of a new T&E policy as an example.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

According to Gartner , finance leaders struggle to balance increasing demands for finance function support with decreasing finance function budgets. They also need soft skills like effective communication. As a result, 85% of finance teams are currently undergoing or planning a finance transformation. Those are the hard skills.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 1, 2022

Some key processes, such as budgeting and forecasting, are, however, only partially defined. Annual budgeting is a bottom-up process that includes business units as well as legal entities. Storytelling requires us to have much better communication skills, interpret the data, and explain it in a way that others can understand.”.

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