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When to Use a ‘Decision Tree’ for Business Planning

CFO Selections

The “branches” off each decision alternative that result use data analysis to forecast the most likely outcome of each decision. A decision tree is a critical part of strategic planning because it allows decision makers to analyze the effects of a significant change throughout different areas of the business.

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Top 10 CFO Priorities for 2024

The Finance Weekly

As 2024 approaches, CFOs need to assess their 2023 achievements and plan for the coming year. Exploring the Key Priorities for CFOs in 2024 Global political instability, encompassing war, superpower tensions, and internal turmoil, adds complexity to planning for 2024. Starting with an external perspective is crucial.

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Survey: Executives Optimistic Despite Financial Disruption, Prioritizing Technology Adoption to Combat Talent Shortage

CFO Leadership

Data analysis and leadership were ranked by CFOs as the most important skills for new team members, outpacing more traditional competencies like accounting and project management. Inflation moved down to the third-ranked impact, tied with the US regulatory environment at 13%.

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Best Practice Tips to Impress in the Role of CFO

Centage

Once upon a time the role of CFO was focused on backward-looking data. Along with tracking cash flow and providing timely information, the best CFOs are strategizers, analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses from a financial perspective and helping direct decision making.

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Survey: Executives Optimistic Despite Financial Disruption, Prioritizing Technology Adoption to Combat Talent Shortage

CFO Leadership

Data analysis and leadership were ranked by CFOs as the most important skills for new team members, outpacing more traditional competencies like accounting and project management. Inflation moved down to the third-ranked impact, tied with the US regulatory environment at 13%.

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What it takes to be a leader with competence and capabilities

Future CFO

“I think we need to recognise that the CFO role can mean a lot of different things in different businesses. It really depends on the type of business, their strategy and the type of skills they want the CFO to lead on.” Dan Wells, CFO at GrowCFO Charisma. Persuasive. These are qualities we often equate with leaders of the past.

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Preparing Your Finance Organization for the New Era of AI

CFO Leadership

Scenario analysis may also leverage AI to model various scenarios to better understand potential consequences of different decisions and market changes. The large language model (LLM) is trained on the financial documents, terminology, trends and data that Bloomberg has collected for nearly a half-century.