CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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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CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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Future CFO

MARCH 22, 2022

With technology becoming an integral part of the way we travel, live, and work today, Soneva has plans to turn its finance operation to fully remote through leveraging the right technology tools and systems. . Soneva currently has four properties it operates across Thailand and the Maldives, according to Workday.

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Planful

MAY 27, 2015

They also discussed best practices in governance for private equity-owned companies and the role of the CFO. CFO coordinates communications between owners, CEO, operating management. CFO should be active advisor to CEO, voice of reason, help make decisions based on fact vs. emotional attachment to certain parts of the business.

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The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Large companies are firmly embracing robotic process automation (RPA), leveraging sophisticated data analytics and visualization tools, and exploring the use of blockchain and other new technologies. As a small business CFO, how do you navigate toward business recovery? Approaching Pragmatism Based on Organizational Size.

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The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Leverage Technology Where You Can The importance of tech has only grown since Giving Tuesday’s founding in 2012. The best method for doing this may vary depending on the organization, but all should leverage multimedia content to tell stories about the problem they’re looking to address or the impact they’ve already had.

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The Charity CFO

AUGUST 7, 2023

Enhanced Data Analysis and Decision Making Tired of number crunching? The programs can automatically flag valuable insights from large data sets that may have otherwise gone unnoticed. Leaders will need to take steps to address these concerns while still leveraging AI to its fullest extent. Get the free guide!

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Future CFO

JANUARY 26, 2024

The technological advancement provides more than just automation and reshapes roles, empowering finance teams to zero in on strategic activities like data analysis, supplier negotiations, and decision-making. Systems powered by artificial intelligence are without a doubt revolutionising invoice processing in finance departments.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The growing variety and complexity of tasks within the finance function has resulted in the creation of a discipline that is supposed to become a bridge between the finance and business to support decision-making process by leveraging data and technology. This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis.

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Future CFO

MARCH 21, 2022

He added: “AI puts all the data into perspective, and, in turn, they help the CEO and the leadership team to understand the whole business dynamics and make decisions based on objective facts. Chan pointed out that leveraging big data with the use of AI brings business agility into the organisation. Source: McDonald's Hong Kong.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

When valuing or analyzing a company, I find myself looking for and using macro data (risk premiums, default spreads, tax rates) and industry-level data on profitability, risk and leverage. Given the wide range of uses to which my data is put, I do have some caveats on its usage.

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E78 Partners

APRIL 13, 2023

Private equity firms try to increase its value through various strategies such as implementing an inorganic growth plan, improving processes and systems that will enable scaling and operating leverage, and improve operational efficiency and productivity. The office of the CFO is critical to scale PE-backed companies. Talk to an expert.

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Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They’re focused less on benchmarking current performance to the predicted budget and instead want to leverage real-time data to understand what the future looks like. At the same time, the economy and the workplace continue to evolve, making data-based decision-making more critical than ever.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

At a recent roundtable, one CFO commented she can’t recall a period in recent years where her team had done so many “what if” analysis than in 2020. Another CFO pointed out that COVID-19 has elevated stress testing to a whole new level. FutureCFO’s discussions with finance leaders in Asia identified similar conditions.

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Future CFO

MARCH 2, 2023

how functions can strengthen semantic models to improve data quality and transparency how can technology expand the number of teams performing judgment-based activities versus manual activities how autonomous technology in finance can improve business performance by minimising the burden of data analysis and decision making.

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Future CFO

MARCH 7, 2021

Sereen Teoh , CFO at BIG Loyalty. The program works by enabling staff to elect what type of mentor they are looking for — for instance a manager or CFO — who meets with them at minimum once a quarter. I’m honoured to be working at Microsoft Hong Kong where the CEO, CFO and COO are all female, which is very rare in the tech industry.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 21, 2021

So, we’ve been focusing on delivering these using our own data lakes and tools,” said Lee. He noted the main aim is to help his company’s CFO to “have control of across the entire CapitaLand’s books.”. People are looking to see if there are ways for them to leverage their excess cash or the limitations in [acquiring] cash,” added Kim.

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Planful

DECEMBER 28, 2016

To discuss the topic of financial reporting tips that will help create a smoother year-end close, Planful, in cooperation with CFO.com, invited thought leaders from The Hackett Group to participate in a webinar titled, The CFO Playbook on Financial Reporting: Tips for a Smoother Year-End Close. Weaknesses are found and corrected earlier.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

They make a ton of money, but they may also be highly leveraged,’ he says, meaning that much of their money on paper may come from investing borrowed money. On the rich-but-not-wealthy side of the equation, Sullivan says you’re likely to find plenty of hedge fund managers. ’” “Life” doesn’t “make choices” for working class people?

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The Finance Weekly

JULY 31, 2023

As a seasoned finance leader in telecommunications, retail, technology, and legal sectors, Glenn envisions transforming the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from being a historical reporter to a strategic forward-thinker. Another application gaining traction is leveraging AI for scenario analysis.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. You know, the leverage in the system builds. Because the more that you create the news, if you think about it, if you’re a big CEO, CFO and think about CapEx spend, long-term hiring plans, do I need to have the Fed as one of the risk factors in? I don’t think so.

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