CFO Plans

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Implementing strong corporate financial governance ensures that financial disclosures are both trustworthy and reliable. This positions an organization as a leader in financial accountability leadership , setting a standard for others in the industry to follow. This transparency builds confidence amongst stakeholders.

Communication

Future CFO

MARCH 3, 2025

Repetitive tasks, such as financial reporting, are increasingly being automated, freeing up finance professionals to focus on strategic initiatives. A recent report by McKinsey estimates that automation could potentially displace up to 30% of work activities in finance and accounting.

Finance

E78 Partners

MARCH 3, 2025

Despite these favorable conditions, successful IPOs require meticulous preparation, robust financial reporting, and a governance framework that instills investor confidence. Companies must ensure they are operationally, financially, and strategically ready for the transition to public markets.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Talks

APRIL 15, 2025

Accountability Isnt Admin Its Your Performance Lever For all the talk about AI-driven forecasting, real-time dashboards, and digitising the finance function, there remains one cornerstone of high-performing finance teams that no technology can replace: accountability. Reports are produced. Its about clarity, culture, and leadership.

Accounting

E78 Partners

MAY 29, 2025

Beyond Financial Reporting: Four Pillars of Strategic CFO Impact 1. Companies implementing comprehensive financial technology stacksfrom AI-powered forecasting to automated close processesreport faster monthly closes and reduction in finance headcount requirements.

CFO

E78 Partners

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Implement driver-based forecasting that links operational metrics to financial outcomes. Ensure FP&A leaders participate in performance reviews, business health assessments, and financial insights to enable more informed decision-making. Solution: Implement rolling forecasts to enhance agility and adaptability.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Talks

JANUARY 8, 2025

For example, financial reporting software can provide real-time visibility into your company’s performance. Instead of waiting for monthly reports, you can spot trends as they happen and act quickly. Regular town halls where leadership shares the companys position and strategy can reassure employees.

Economics

CFO Talks

JUNE 17, 2025

The CFO must lead the effort to close it, both through financial rigour and ethical leadership. Establishing Financial Credibility as a Foundation The first step in rebuilding market confidence is to restore the reliability of financial information. A scandal creates a credibility gap.

CFO

CFO Talks

AUGUST 6, 2025

Before setting up shop, understand: Which financial reporting standards apply (e.g. Technology and Data Integration Your finance systems must support multi-entity, multi-currency, and multi-GAAP reporting. In a world where business knows no borders, your leadership as CFO must stretch beyond local horizons.

Foreign Exchange

E78 Partners

MARCH 28, 2025

Improved demand forecasting can boost revenue by 2% to 4%, while smarter product targeting for priority customers can improve gross margins by 50 to 250 basis points. Proactive measures such as enhanced financial reporting, improved ERP systems, and clear growth narratives are essential for commanding premium valuations.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

CFO Talks

JUNE 20, 2025

With over 15 years of experience spanning finance, risk, procurement, and executive leadership, Rajesh brings a unique blend of technical acumen and business foresight to the CFO role. His leadership journey includes senior roles at Liquid Telecom, Neotel, Peresys, and Sheridans in London. What are your interests outside of work?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

E78 Partners

OCTOBER 30, 2024

To drive growth, improve profitability, and enhance decision-making, companies can leverage the power of refined operational disciplines – Forecasting, Planning, and Analytics (our take on FP&A). Creating a ‘Single Source of Truth’ for Financial and Operational Data Accurate and reliable financial information is essential.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

The Charity CFO

APRIL 1, 2025

The organizations that thrive have a shared commitment to financial discipline, strong internal controls, and strategic leadership. Thats why we created The Charity CFO Financial Blueprint a free , downloadable 30-point guide that distills the best practices weve seen across our top-performing clients. If so, whenand how?

Nonprofit

The Charity CFO

JUNE 4, 2025

They build a pipeline, track progress, forecast revenue, and follow up religiously. Instead of relying on memory or sticky notes, he uses Salesforce as a second brainsetting reminders, tracking conversations, and forecasting outcomes. Sales professionals are trained to own the process. Get the free guide!

Sales

CFO Talks

JUNE 4, 2025

They are dealing with facts, forecasts, and risk. In South Africas business environment, where public trust is fragile, regulatory compliance is non-negotiable, and financial transparency is a competitive advantage, the CFO plays a crucial role in shaping whether a company is seen as credible, ethical, and stable.

CFO

CFO Talks

AUGUST 7, 2025

Dancing with Chaos: Why Smart CFOs Say Yes to Unstructured Work For many years, the role of the Chief Financial Officer was defined by order, certainty, and structure. It was about budgets, forecasts, monthly closes, and audits. It can reduce the role to one of reporting and compliance, rather than strategy and leadership.

CFO

CFO Talks

JUNE 10, 2025

Most finance teams can deliver reports. They can reconcile accounts, update forecasts, and manage audit schedules. When reporting season, audits, or board meetings come up, mentoring is the first thing to fall away. If you want mentoring to work, it must be treated as a structured, trackable leadership activity.

Auditing

CFO Talks

MAY 14, 2025

For the Chief Financial Officer, integrity cannot be relegated to policy documents or compliance manuals. It must be lived, demonstrated, and embedded across every financial decision, every forecast, every conversation with the board. Ethical leadership is no longer a moral footnote; it is central to long-term value creation.

Numbers

CFO Dive

AUGUST 11, 2025

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Strategic Partners

APRIL 14, 2025

Do More With What You Have Leverage CFO Leadership Build A Strong Financial Foundation Update Your Technology Track The Right KPIs Position Your Business Effectively for Investment Companies that achieve their objectives and outperform their competitors – know how to seamlessly blend strategy and execution in the pursuit of their goals.

Cash Flow Forecasting

CFO Dive

JUNE 16, 2025

Ensure auditable reporting and compliance The CFO needs to work with other functions like corporate financial reporting, regulatory compliance, tax, treasury, and legal to ensure timely, auditable reporting and financial accounting. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Registered in England and Wales. TechTarget, Inc.s

CFO

CFO Dive

JUNE 9, 2025

You can’t forecast global growth without factoring in these new labor tariffs. And if your financial model can’t surface them early, it’s not a model. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Great rate, wrong classification — and suddenly youre back-paying taxes with a side of penalties. It’s a liability. Registered in England and Wales.

Finance

CFO Dive

JUNE 16, 2025

Published June 16, 2025 Jim Tyson Senior Reporter post share post print email license A pile of $100 bills. growth this year as inflation persists above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, the National Association for Business Economics said Monday, citing a survey of forecasters. You can unsubscribe at anytime. this year from 1.9%

CFO

CFO Dive

JUNE 11, 2025

Published June 11, 2025 Jim Tyson Senior Reporter post share post print email license Gordan1 via Getty Images Dive Brief: Inflation eased more than forecast last month as companies drew down inventories that they stockpiled before the imposition of tariffs rather than pass on price increases to consumers. in May and 2.8%

CFO

The Charity CFO

MAY 12, 2025

Trying to combine this role with the CFO function often fails because bookkeeping is structured and rule-bound , while financial leadership requires a more strategic, creative, and big-picture thinker. Cross-training ensures that if one team member is out unexpectedly, your financial operations dont grind to a halt.

Nonprofit

CFO Dive

AUGUST 6, 2025

from 2024, according to a Gartner forecast last month. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Leaders are adopting more iterative approaches that allow them to adapt quickly and drive higher margins over time.” Dive Insight: Worldwide information technology spending is expected to total $5.43 trillion in 2025, an increase of 7.9% TechTarget, Inc.s

CFO

CFO Dive

JULY 16, 2025

billion USD), versus the €2 billion forecast previously, according to a separate press release detailing preliminary results for its H1 of 2025. You can unsubscribe at anytime. billion to 1.5 billion euros ($1.16 billion to $1.7 The company is also now expecting an operating margin around 6.5% Registered in England and Wales. TechTarget, Inc.s

CFO

Bramasol

JULY 16, 2025

Operational Efficiency and Cost Management Cost Reduction Pressures : With increasing pressure to reduce operational costs, utilities are investing in ERP systems to streamline workflows, reduce redundancies, and automate financial reporting. Cloud-based ERP systems also lower the total cost of ownership compared to legacy solutions.

SAP

CFO Dive

JULY 23, 2025

Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Press Releases Topics Subscribe Search Subscribe Search Strategy & Operations Financial Reporting Compliance Technology Treasury Risk Management Leadership An article from Dive Brief GM CFO looks to strategic pricing, costs to blunt $1.1B You can unsubscribe at anytime. TechTarget, Inc.s

CFO

CFO Dive

AUGUST 5, 2025

Employers added a less-than-forecast 73,000 workers in July, and revisions cut job growth in June and May by a total of 258,000, the BLS said. After release of the less-than-forecast employment numbers, President Donald Trump fired the BLS commissioner, alleging that the bureau “rigged” the data. You can unsubscribe at anytime.

CFO

CFO Dive

JULY 21, 2025

Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Press Releases Topics Subscribe Search Subscribe Search Strategy & Operations Financial Reporting Compliance Technology Treasury Risk Management Leadership An article from Dive Brief Tariffs to slow spending, economic growth during H2: Conference Board Consumers face an average effective tariff rate of 20.6%

Economics

CFO Dive

JUNE 10, 2025

in 2024, the World Bank forecast Tuesday, citing the burden from Trump’s tariffs. growth and inflation in 2025 has deteriorated relative to January forecasts,” the World Bank said in a report. Dive Insight: Stumble or not, the U.S. economy will likely slow to a 1.4% growth pace this year from 2.8% The outlook for U.S.

Forecasting

CFO Dive

AUGUST 4, 2025

Employers added a less-than-forecast 73,000 workers in July, and revisions cut job growth in June and May by a total of 258,000, the Labor Department said. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Unemployment increased 0.1 percentage point to 4.2%. Registered in England and Wales. TechTarget, Inc.s registered office is 275 Grove St. Newton, MA 02466.

Marketing

Future CFO

DECEMBER 31, 2021

According to Gartner , finance leaders anticipate a greater percentage of their time will be spent in improving flexibility of budgeting & forecasting (58%), closely followed by developing digital skills (56%) and redefining employee value proposition in hybrid environments. What does this mean to the finance and accounting team of 2022?

Leadership

Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If your board asked you to run new numbers based on fresh assumptions, it took you days or weeks to create a new set of reports. But times have changed – which is why financial forecasting is more important than your annual budget. More than half (57%) are producing P&L forecasts more often than monthly. Watch Demo.

Forecasting

Spreadym

AUGUST 17, 2023

A financial reporting dashboard is a visual representation of financial data and key performance indicators (KPIs) presented in a consolidated and easily digestible format. Decision Making : Financial reporting dashboards enable data-driven decision making by providing stakeholders with timely and accurate information.

Financial Reporting

Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The list of typical FP&A activities usually includes planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, management reporting and performance management. Forecasting is the practice of making regular predictions about the company’s expected future results based on the past and present data as well as on the anticipated future events.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)