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1001: Building Teams and Breaking Boundaries | Julien Lafouge, CFO, Spendesk

CFO Thought Leader

Back in 2001, Lafouge stepped into a pivotal finance leadership role with Technip, a technology provider to the energy industry. With global uncertainties looming, he built a resilient financial model that ensured the company’s survival. Rational arguments, numbers, and analyses are usually necessary but not enough.”

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3 FP&A solutions that won big in the 2022 Comparably awards

The Finance Weekly

Datarails, Vena, and Workday, leaders in the large and competitive field of FP&A software, all won multiple awards in the employee salary, benefits, and leadership categories. Datarails came in at number 45 out of 100 in this category. Vena came in at number 75 out of 100 in this category. 6) Best leadership teams.

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5 benefits of driver-based budgeting & planning

Centage

Any number of issues can arise that render forecasts or the line items on an annual budget quickly outdated. The problems that occur downstream from inaccurate or incomplete plans and budgets ultimately impact financial performance and long-term success. Defining your business drivers increases flexibility.

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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.

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5 Excel-heavy Pain Points still Dragging down finance teams in 2024

The Finance Weekly

Some: 41% of finance teams have Issues Identifying and correcting errors, 31% have problems finding and gathering necessary data, 24% have challenging questions on sources of data, 23% face challenges tracking multiple Excel versions, 20% have a bugbear of broken formulas, 19% are far from confident presenting this data to non-finance leadership.

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Deloitte country CFO: How you can rise through the ranks

Future CFO

The CFO role requires certain traits and skills, said Woranat Dumrongsiri (pictured), Country CFO, Deloitte Thailand and Deloitte Laos during an interview with FutureCFO for the publication’s Female Leadership in Finance Series. I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. My financial career is quite a long journey.

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5 Accounting Challenges Startups Face and How to Help Them Thrive

The CFO College

If they have to rely on capital raising, it’s hard for companies to attract private or institutional investors in competitive markets without a great accountant and strong financial model. Investors want to see a number of worthy components before they sink money into a company.