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What the Future of Work Means for CFOs’ Budgets
May 03, 2024

Over $38 billion of U.S. office buildings face loan defaults, foreclosures or other distresses. At the same time, many companies are relocating or centralizing their headquarters. That’s why, for today’s CFOs, the cost and cultural balance around return to office versus remote work and other hybrid setups is top of mind...

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LiveRamp CFO: Developing Quick-Twitch Muscles Key to Managing Dynamic Businesses
May 03, 2024

To be successful, you must have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. As today’s chief financial officers know best, the role of a leader is to define a common goal and enable the business to get there. “I feel immense accountability for...

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CFOs Take the Baton in Strategy Orchestration
April 30, 2024

Successfully steering a business toward strategic growth requires a steady hand.  And in today’s business landscape, where change is constant and innovation is key, the role of the chief financial officer (CFO) has evolved to include not just that steady hand, but a keen eye,...

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CFOs’ Top 4 Concerns Reveal Importance of Controlling What’s Controllable
April 19, 2024

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...

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Data, Communication, Empathy: CFOs Embrace Leadership Role
April 12, 2024

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...

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Analytical Focus Moves CFOs From Bookkeepers to Business Partners
April 11, 2024

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 —...

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Kyriba Adds AI-Powered Cash Forecasting Feature to Platform for CFOs
April 09, 2024

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...

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CFOs Say Business Innovation Is a People-First Exercise
April 03, 2024

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...

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Procurify CFO Scales Finance Team With Technology
April 03, 2024

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:...