CFO Talks

MARCH 13, 2025

Now, picture the opposite: instant access to real-time financial insights, automated compliance checks, and AI-driven forecasts guiding your next move. This is the power of Financial Information Systems (FIS). Often, finance teams work separately from sales, operations, and HR, leading to inconsistent financial data.

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CFO Plans

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

In the whirlwind world of startups and businesses on the hunt for investment, financial reporting is much more than a collection of numbers; its the story of your businesss vitality, potential, and vision. Discover how to transform your financial reports into investment magnets by aligning them with investor expectations.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In a role filled with financial data, strategic meetings, and high-stakes decisions, active listening can drive better outcomes and turn tough conversations into collaborative wins. You could jump straight into numbers, but there’s a risk—they might tune out, push back, or even disengage. Now, think about the alternative.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 22, 2025

In this context, chief financial officers (CFOs) are emerging as pivotal figures in steering their organisations through technological adoption and innovation. For CFOs, this means managing financial data and utilising technology to provide insights that drive strategic decision-making.

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The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Budget approval ensures financial stability, prevents unnecessary expenses, and keeps projects on schedule. Present financial data with clear charts for faster decision-making. Provide business context to support data-driven discussions. Use integrated FP&A systems to generate detailed financial reports.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It requires careful planning, accurate numbers, and constant checking to make sure things stay on track. A business unit budget is a financial plan that outlines how much money a department expects to earn and spend. This isnt always easy, but looking at past financial data and market trends can help create more accurate estimates.

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CFO Talks

MARCH 5, 2025

To make sure everything aligns: Set up strong internal processes Have a clear system in place for collecting and verifying financial data. Some useful tools include: ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems These systems (such as SAP, Oracle, or Sage) help track financial transactions and automate reporting.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The second is valuation , a class about how to value or price almost anything, with a tool set for those who need to put numbers on assets. As our access to financial data and tools has improved, I added a short course on statistics , again with the narrow objective of providing the basic tools of data analysis.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Cloud computing is having a significant impact on organizations and especially the CFO, where its allowing for real-time access to financial data, says Craig Stephenson, global head of Tech, Ops, Data/AI, and InfoSec Officers Practice at Korn Ferry.

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CFO Talks

JUNE 3, 2025

The CFO is not just the gatekeeper of financial data. But it is your self-awareness, your ability to understand and lead yourself, that keeps you there and earns you influence beyond the numbers. Put simply, when you are self-aware, you are not only reading the numbers. You are reading the room. Maybe it is clarity.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

They do, however, recognize its importance: nearly one-third told surveyors they will be seeking better data analytics technologies to bolster their reporting efforts. In some ways, corporate financial reporting is about the human element needed to tell the story behind the numbers, Born noted.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This also meant restating the previous three years of financial history and really scrutinising the numbers before converting it all into a consolidated group format. . “I When you come into a new business, it’s very difficult to stand by the numbers unless you get really involved in the details.” . The results of her changes.

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CFO Talks

APRIL 17, 2025

As the role of the finance leader evolves beyond compliance and control, strategic decision-making increasingly relies on the intelligent use of data. But not just any data. Its the quality, relevance, and timing of information that separates high-performing finance functions from reactive number-crunching.

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Future CFO

MARCH 3, 2025

By 2025, the traditional image of number-crunching accountants confined to back offices will be a relic of the past. The ability to analyse data, identify insights, and communicate those insights effectively is highly valued. The finance function is undergoing a seismic shift.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 4, 2025

Global Financial Data ) Vanguard 2025 economic and market outlook : The global monetary easing cycle will be in full swing in 2025, with inflation in most developed economies now within touching distance of central banks targets. Luxury car sales fell 27%.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today’s business budgeting and financial planning solutions must provide business insight in real time and let budget owners and planners collaborate with confidence in numbers. Compounded over many rows, even a simple mistake can lead to faulty financial data. Change is here.

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Translating Financial Performance into Tangible Results: A CFO’s Guide In the dynamic world of finance, one of the greatest challenges for CFOs is translating financial performance into tangible results. Understand the Story Behind the Numbers Numbers tell a story, and as a CFO, you’re the storyteller.

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Future CFO

MAY 11, 2025

While no two days are exactly the same, the constant in my day is this: a drive to connect - to connect numbers to purpose, strategies to success, and people to their fullest potential. Nguyn Trung Ngn Transfer pricing audits are not just about reviewing numbers on a page.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s a result, explained Gillette, of the legacy ERP no longer being suited to address the full range of businesses’ diverse financial and process management needs. He pointed to financial reporting as one example of this shift.

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CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

If an investor in Japan wants to invest in a UK-based firm, IFRS compliance reassures them that they can trust the numbers in the financial statements. If both companies involved follow IFRS, negotiations and due diligence become much easier because financial statements are prepared comparably.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With external pressures that are hard to predict, real-time visibility over financial data, processes and working capital will be key to survival, leading to greater pressure on CFOs and those who report into them, according to the research.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 8, 2025

If someone struggles with presenting financial data, offer tips, resources, or even a mentor to help them improve. Expose the Team to Broader Perspectives A finance team can sometimes operate in a silo, focusing solely on numbers. Breaking out of this bubble is critical for growth.

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Tracking specific metrics helps nonprofits see how well theyre doing in areas such as: Fundraising Marketing Program delivery Operational efficiency Overall impact In turn, KPI data helps leaders make informed decisions, optimize resources, and build trust and accountability with donors and stakeholders. Thats where financial KPIs come in.

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Michigan CFO

APRIL 25, 2025

Too many business owners, especially women, avoid their numbers and rely on gut instinct instead of financial data to make decisions, according to Forbes. A gap in financial confidence leads to fear or avoidance of financial management.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There’s no shortage of consulting advice and press clippings that will state the importance of actionable data for companies as a selling, operational and marketing strategy. Big data, it used to be called. Last week, the Department of Justice gave the green light to Mastercard’s $825 million acquisition of data aggregator Finicity.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Also in industry news this week: Edward Jones, which added more new CFP professionals than any other firm last year, announced that it is planning to offer financial planning services nationwide, highlighting the value for RIAs and other firms of differentiating themselves amidst increased competition not only for clients, but also for advisor talent (..)

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2020

While TIDAL doesn’t give out subscriber, user or financial data, its website claims to have more than 70 million songs and 250,000 high-quality videos in its catalog, along with original video series and podcasts. Sound Is Booming. that year, although its overall revenue grew by 25 percent.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

The latest estimates from the Small Business Administration (SBA) peg the number of new SMBs at 414,000 each year, spurring job creation and economic growth for the country, with millennial entrepreneurs at the helm. “The number of small businesses selling and exiting each year is growing year on year,” said Hutchison.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2021

A web page to which some customers were pointed states that the stolen data “may have included phone number, number of lines subscribed to on your account and, in some cases, call-related information collected as part of the normal operation of your wireless service.”.

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https://trustedcfosolutions.com/feed/

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

It used to be the domain of a relatively small number of wealthy families. As families continue to increase their wealth, family offices continue to grow and need to be able to organize and centralize the family’s business and personal financial affairs. Family offices are growing in popularity.

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CFO Talks

JUNE 18, 2025

With one version of the numbers and fewer layers of decision-making, it becomes easier to stop overspending, apply controls, and deal with urgent financial issues. A decentralised structure only works when business units are financially literate and understand how their actions affect the bigger picture.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

This early encouragement played a key role in shaping my future, as it introduced me to the world of business and numbers. I quickly realised I had a natural affinity for finance and enjoyed working through financial problems. From that point, I shifted my focus to commerce studies, starting in Standard 7 (Grade 9).

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

You don’t record any financial data in the Chart of Accounts itself; it’s like an organizational map of your accounting structure. In a nonprofit’s Chart of Accounts, each account is identified in four ways: number, name, category type, and a short description. Rename with your bank account and account number.

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Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Employees no longer need to provide personal information and bank account numbers to their employers by email or paper. The technology uses a generative AI conversation assistant in Microsoft Teams, analyzing raw financial data to produce personalized insights for Brazilian micro and small businesses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Research by Kaspersky Lab revealed that when the holiday shopping season unofficially kicks off on Block Friday, the number of financial phishing attacks is expected to surge. percent of all phishing attacks were focused on procuring financial data, but in Q4, financial phishing was responsible for 43.38

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

A recent data breach exposed the personal data of more than 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers, reports said on Friday (Nov. The information exposed did not include any financial information, social security numbers or password data. We promptly reported this to authorities. million on average for enterprises.

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

We all understand that the C-level wants treasury to lake use of huge financial data they sit on and develop more reporting and dashboards. No one will be surprised to see Cash-Flow Forecasting as the number one priority, followed by digitization (and automation) of treasury processes.

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