The concerns keeping CFOs awake at night help define their business strategies in the morning. And with the news this week that B2B credit card platform Pliant is planning to expand, while Mastercard is bringing its commercial cards to mobile wallets, CFOs looking to sleep a little better are prioritizing...
Modern leadership requires data, communication, empathy, and above all a holistic view of the business. Call these pillars the new drivers of success. Increasingly, it is falling to today’s chief financial officers to synthesize them into a strategy that can optimize the business outcomes of...
Today’s chief financial officers are as different from 1970s bean counters as apples are from oranges. In an operational landscape marked by ongoing uncertainty and a sea change of macro shifts, modern CFOs have had to adapt to a new world of business realities —...
Kyriba has added artificial intelligence (AI) features to its platform that helps chief financial officers, treasurers and IT leaders optimize their liquidity. The new AI functionality improves cash forecasting, bank connectivity-as-a-service and custom report generation, the company said in a Tuesday (April 9) press release. These...
There are three fundamental dimensions to business performance: financial, operational and cultural. These pillars can also be compared to the long-standing management framework of people, processes and tools. But what is most important is that the rapid transformation of the business landscape has increasingly reframed the calculus...
Amidst the shifting tides of technology, finance and business strategy, savvy CFOs need to sharpen their operational toolkits — or risk being swept away. “Change has been the only constant over the past three to five years,” Amy Wang, CFO at Procurify, told PYMNTS for the series:...
Historically, the chief financial officer’s responsibilities were confined to accounting and financial oversight. However, the rapid pace of technological advancement and the increasing complexity of the global market have expanded the CFO’s role. Today’s financial chiefs are pivotal in driving business strategy, managing risk and...
In 1964, the origins of what would later become the “people, process and technology” (PPT) framework for more effective organizational management was first created by Dr. Harold Leavitt. Now, nearly six decades later, and amidst a shifting and uncertain macro operating landscape, that same cornerstone acronym...
With great change comes great opportunity. And as the business landscape undergoes a rapid transformation, it has brought with it a broader shift in the expectations placed upon financial executives. Once seen primarily as experts in numbers and financial reporting, the modern chief financial officer...
