CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

When I joined, the company was facing significant financial and operational challenges. The first step was conducting a comprehensive review of the budgets and forecasts, which revealed structural inefficiencies and inaccuracies in the balance sheet. My time at Coca-Cola Tanzania was a pivotal experience in my career. million annually.

Finance

CFO Talks

JUNE 3, 2025

To counter this, Innocent and his team use agile forecasting frameworks, scenario modelling, and real-time analytics. He explains that this approach not only stabilised SAQA post-COVID but also helped them build financial reserves to secure operations for several years. When Innocent joined QCTO, he found financial chaos.

Leadership

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. Exit Readiness and Market Timing: Maximizing Returns Securing strong exits will require both preparation and flexibility. While PE-backed exit value increased 7.6%

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

The Finance Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Built with a spreadsheet-style interface, it provides businesses with a centralized financial planning solution, reducing reliance on manual data entry while enhancing automation and accuracy. Prophix is best suited for mid-sized and large enterprises that require a scalable, cloud-based financial solution. Who Its Meant For?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Talks

JUNE 10, 2025

Most finance teams can deliver reports. They can reconcile accounts, update forecasts, and manage audit schedules. Apply the same discipline you use for financial reporting or audit preparation. This is how CFOs build credibility, strengthen their teams, and secure their legacies. Mentoring is Not a Soft Skill.

Auditing

E78 Partners

APRIL 23, 2025

Data Governance : Establishing frameworks for data security, compliance, and lineage, vital for regulatory adherence and exit due diligence. Exit Readiness : Transparent, governed data enhances financial reporting and ERP systems, positioning companies for IPOs or strategic sales in an improving liquidity environment.

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. Financial reporting is not just a compliance exercise. It is a cultural mirror.

Numbers

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. Daily Dive M-F Tech Weekly Every Tuesday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe at anytime. billion to 1.5 billion euros ($1.16

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

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

Centage

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This accessible program can accomplish various tasks, such as financial forecasting and budgeting. If your business has used Excel for financial forecasting, you may have found some challenges with the program. However, there can be some disadvantages to using Excel for your company’s financial forecasting.

Forecasting

Centage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As a business owner or chief financial officer (CFO), spreadsheets may be an important part of your financial forecasting, planning, and budgeting processes. Below, we’ll analyze Excel spreadsheets security problems that come with spreadsheets and how implementing software can be a more effective solution.

Securities

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The horrors are real when it comes to financial reporting. Your ability to effectively operate your organization can be severely hampered by nightmare realities such as disparate data systems and a lack of security (and let's not even get started on manual data entry and re-entry). You should be!

Financial Reporting

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

CFO Talks

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Forecasting Tools, choosing the Right Fit for Your Business As a CFO, you know that forecasting is crucial to business success. Whether you’re anticipating future cash flows, preparing for market shifts, or managing your company’s resources, having the right forecasting tool can make all the difference.

Forecasting

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

AI-powered ERP systems can help address regional challenges such as complex regulatory environments, diverse currencies, and rapidly changing market conditions by providing more agile and responsive financial tools. At Oracle, we run our applications on a single Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that offers enterprise-grade security,” he adds.

Compliance

Spreadym

AUGUST 10, 2023

When choosing the best financial reporting software solution, it's important to consider factors such as ease of use, scalability, integration with existing systems, compliance with accounting standards, cost, customer support, and any unique requirements your organization might have. What is financial reporting software?

Financial Reporting

CFO Share

JULY 16, 2024

In contrast, a CFO is a more strategic financial professional, focusing on long-term planning, investor relations, and overarching financial strategy. Purpose of the Role The controller ensures financial reporting compliance and accuracy while preventing and detecting fraud.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Centage

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This accessible program can accomplish various tasks, such as financial forecasting and budgeting. If your business has used Excel for financial forecasting, you may have found some challenges with the program. Why Businesses Use Spreadsheets for Financial Forecasting. Data Security Vulnerabilities.

Forecasting

Centage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As a business owner or chief financial officer (CFO), spreadsheets may be an important part of your financial forecasting, planning, and budgeting processes. So, why are so many companies relying on them to handle their financial needs? Forecasting. Security Disadvantages of Using Excel for Businesses.

Securities

The Charity CFO

JANUARY 12, 2024

Financial forecasting is a term you’ll hear thrown around in the business world quite often—but in the world of nonprofits, it can be difficult (and even downright impossible) to plan your organization’s finances with any degree of certainty. The best way to do this is through financial forecasting.

Nonprofit

The Finance Weekly

JULY 19, 2022

FP&A software assists CFOs, finance leaders, and FP&A experts in ensuring the financial health of their organization by tracking and analyzing current outcomes and forecasting future performance. Planful is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software platform that focuses on continuous planning.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Future CFO

AUGUST 1, 2023

The rise in digital transformation (DX) initiatives and the adoption of mobile technologies have also contributed to the demand for cloud-based financial applications in Asia/Pacific. Companies are increasingly seeking secure and compliant solutions to manage their financial data.

Invoicing

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Enhanced data security - In the finance industry, protecting client data and proprietary information is essential, especially as businesses increasingly rely on technology for day-to-day operations. Implementing , financial reporting software is one of the ways IT may support the development of finance.

Finance

CFO Talks

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Financial Risk Forecasting Predictive models can analyse your company’s financial data—such as revenue patterns, cash flow, and expenses—to identify potential financial risks. Start by leveraging data from your accounting systems and working with your finance team to create simple forecasting models.

Risk Management

Centage

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It replaces static spreadsheets with a cloud-based financial tool that gives role-based access to data in real time. Planning Maestro allows you to access historical, current, and future budget and forecast data in one place, with advanced features for data analysis and projections.

Budgeting

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In the aftermath of the great depression, the Securities Exchange Commission was created as part of the Securities Exchange Act, in 1934 , and that act also required any company issuing securities under that act, i.e., all publicly traded firms, make annual filings (10Ks) and quarterly filings (10Qs), that would be accessible to investors.

Marketing

The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 1, 2023

During inflation and unstable market conditions, it will help companies gain better insights and forecasting, including calculating a variety of what-if scenarios. 2) The Importance of Trustworthy, Independent SOC Reports in FP&A. 2) The Importance of Trustworthy, Independent SOC Reports in FP&A.

Finance

The Finance Weekly

MARCH 25, 2024

They also pitch in on major financial moves like mergers and fundraising. They double-check financial reports for accuracy and offer advice to the company leaders and the board. The CFO's job is to decipher various departmental forecasts to create profit projections for the CEO and shareholders.

CFO

Centage

JULY 25, 2023

Risk of Errors with Excel Spreadsheets The risk of errors is one of the greatest challenges that businesses face when using Excel spreadsheets for budgeting and financial forecasting. Quick report generation: Planning Maestro allows you to quickly and easily build and distribute consolidated financial reports.

Budgeting

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Job security is always a concern when choosing a career, but some fields are more recession-proof than others. After all, people will always need financial services, whether investing their money , taking out loans, or managing their taxes. Financial Reporting Skills. This is why financial reporting skills are essential.

Finance

The Charity CFO

APRIL 20, 2023

Budgeting: Tools for creating and managing multiple budgets for different funds or projects and budget to actual reporting. Some tools may also provide forecasting based on historical data. These features might include a platform to file your Form 990-N or the ability to create custom reports. How secure is the system?

Nonprofit

Spreadym

APRIL 27, 2023

Financial analysis and planning (or FA&P) software is a type of business software that helps companies manage their finances and operational activity by analyzing financial data and providing tools to plan, forecast and make budgets for efficient business growth. Visit the link to learn more about it.

Financial Analysis

Centage

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It allows you to understand the impact of a change in a specific variable on your financial sheets. You can update your forecasts based on the analysis. Financial plans are thoughtful documents – the result of setting goals and establishing a course of action to achieve them. Update rolling forecasts as required.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

CFO Leadership

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Future-forward finance and accounting organizations were quick to embrace robotic process automation (RPA) years ago to manage mundane, repetitive back-office tasks like data entry and routine financial reporting. What data governance, privacy and security procedures do we have in place or need? over at least the next decade.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

The Finance Weekly

JUNE 22, 2022

In addition, solid financial guidance is one of the keys to scaling a startup, and a Fractional CFO provides cost effective experience with a low level of commitment- exactly what young startups are looking for. Although each company has its own unique KPIs and goals, there tends to be many similarities in the work.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)