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Taking a strategic approach to AI adoption

Future CFO

Cloud-based financial systems have improved collaboration, making data more accessible while ensuring compliance with evolving regulations." As AI becomes increasingly embedded in financial operations, data literacy becomes crucial, as professionals need to interpret AI-driven insights and validate the accuracy of financial models.

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Numbers Never Lie but They Rarely Tell the Whole Story 

CFO Talks

Numbers Never Lie but They Rarely Tell the Whole Story For too long, financial analysis has been seen as a back-office functionprocessing numbers, producing reports, and ensuring compliance. So how do we move from routine financial analysis to something more insightful?

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The Future of Finance and Sustainability with Elizabeth Burns

CFO Talks

The AFE lays out clear lines of responsibility, documenting who approved what and ensuring departments are held accountable for financial decisions. Transparency is critical, particularly in a heavily regulated sector like ours, where compliance with local regulations and alignment with corporate governance are essential.

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5 Excel-heavy Pain Points still Dragging down finance teams in 2025

The Finance Weekly

However, even with these advanced ERP systems and other third-party software products, most small to large businesses still must manually use Microsoft Excel (Excel) for financial analysis, reporting, and other activities. These legacy financial models typically appear overly complicated. These processes vary.

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Going beyond compliance checkboxes for robust data governance

Future CFO

Leslie Joseph , principal analyst at Forrester , believes companies must go beyond compliance checkboxes and implement robust data governance in connection with the release of the EU AI Act, as regulations will evolve, but finance teams that embed strong data and AI governance today will gain a long-term competitive edge.

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Generative AI is a game changer

Future CFO

It still needs a level of financial acumen to probe the data and ask the right questions to the system. The hardest part of financial analysis is going over data and seeing relevant information, flagging data variances and coming out with a comprehensive analysis for decision-making.

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Where Can FP&A Career Path Take You?

Fpanda Club

This process usually presumes the close collaboration of FP&A teams with business leaders and executives to align goals and expectations and create a common financial model of future revenues, costs and cash flows based on the external and internal factors and conditions.