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Practising ESG: where rubber meets the road

Future CFO

She pointed to the UN Global Compact CFO Coalition for the SDGs as one of the best resources for CFOs and sustainability leaders. CFO and Chief Sustainability Officers can access micro-sector-specific tools as well as guidebooks. The group doesn't focus on "terms" they focus on sustainable finance results.

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Why Transforming Your FP&A Matters

Jedox Finance

The role builds on three tricks: 1) a net present value (NPV) mind for thinking about (almost all) decisions; 2) a curious mind wanting to understand how value is generated; and, 3) a team-approach ensuring decisions benefit the organization. The core of the FP&A mindset is this advisor role.

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A new way to measure long-term firm performance and shareholder value

Future CFO

LIVA, as introduced in a recent paper, “Introducing LIVA to measure long-term firm performance”, published in the Strategic Management Journal, uses stock price data to measure the degree to which a company has created and destroyed shareholder value by calculating a backward-looking net present value (NPV) over a given period, INSEAD pointed out.