CFO: tech innovator and disruptor
With overall responsibility for the company budget, the CFO needs to understand and guide the organisation's IT strategy as an...
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CFO: master of talking to numbers
Mike San Diego says CFOs are trained to “talk” to numbers – to decipher what the numbers are telling "you...
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Nurturing gender parity in finance
The truth is talent is parity. The reality is that female CFOs outperform their male counterparts because they are held...
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Better manage finance thru robo-advisory
Statista estimates that total assets under management in the robo-advisory segment will reach US$327,596 million in 2020, with compound annual...
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Expectations of CFOs in 2020
Angie Lin, co-founder and chief investment officer at Assured Asset Management adds that the CFO has to look beyond the...
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Velotrade’s trade financing gambit
Gianluca Pizzituti, ceo and co-founder of Velotrade, says SMBs are just one of three groups of companies and people who...
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FutureCFO QuickTakes: The future of spreadsheets
I have heard predictions about the future (or lack of it) of spreadsheets. But in the last five years I...
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Kickstarting AI adoption by investment professionals
According to IDC robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent automation (IA) will play a pivotal role in addressing business problems...
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Forrester: Total Economic Impact of Anaplan
Anaplan commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI)...
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Connected finance planning at AXA
“As soon as we launch a new product, we need to know what we need in terms of salespeople, admin...
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Disruption is now an expected course of business, yet traditional planning remains slow, error-prone, and fragmented. Adopting finance best practices...
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FutureCFO QuickTakes: Challenges vs opportunities for CFOs in 2020
“If there is a challenge there's an opportunity. If you solve (or invented) an opportunity, another challenge will rise from...
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FutureCFO QuickTakes: Cloud is music to the ears of CFOs
"Variabilization of cost is music to the CFO’s ears. And with the amount of competition in the area of cloud...
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Impact of automation on finance
To say that automation is a recent development is to ignore the 5,000 years of human evolution. The term automation...
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Organisational complexity remains top auditor concern
Data management failures have drawn regulatory and public scrutiny, leading to increased regulatory burdens and pressure on organisations and their...
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AI strategies and tactics for APAC finance professionals in 2020
Finance transformation is no longer an option. It should be a given – at least for organisations that are on...
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Leading finance and operations at Tricor Group
The Robert Half report, Finance 2020 Closer than you think, paints a conundrum for those pursuing a career in finance....
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Rewriting the rules of finance for the digital economy
The new expectation of finance is decision-support. Knowing what happened in the past and why it happened is important. But...
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How CFOs can mine big data
https://youtu.be/dZEpqvxJtFs Rishi Mehra, financial controller Asia-Pacific at AON, observed that the amount of data organisations have created is huge. “We...
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Reinventing finance as trusted advisor to business
Today, finance is about understanding and checking the hypotheses behind management’s views, and ensuring the goals being pursued are aligned...
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Digital CFO: architect of business value
FutureCFO spoke to TIBCO Software CFO, Tom Berquist, on the evolving role of a CFO as influenced by data, cloud...
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Role of MDM in finance
TIBCO Software's Pierre Bonnet expands upon the challenges, trends and opportunities for the Chief Finance Officer and the Finance function to...
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The new CFO as viewed by the CEO
“It’s not a backroom role anymore. It’s to drive confidence, attract capital, and put capital to best use. The new...
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Can side businesses save Grab and GO-JEK?
Grab and GO-JEK reinventing on-demand mobility to go beyond rides-haring for sustained profitability
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Divergent views and expectations of digital CFO
IDC says enterprises worldwide will pour $1.18 trillion into digital transformation-related efforts in 2019. Much of this budget will go...
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Reality bites: Why CFOs struggle balancing innovation and cost
CIOs concede that technology is mind-numbingly rapid and is coining new phrases. Your real concern lives elsewhere.
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Say goodbye to financial spreadsheets
Spreadsheets have been around since 1969. Perhaps it is time to make way for new technology like AI or automation....
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Why CFOs should care about security
CFOs and the finance department are the typical target for hackers because they are the caretakers of the business’ finances...
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Giving PFM a Fintech-spin
The average person in Hong Kong has 4.5 credit cards. With the introduction of virtual banking, the interest in personal...
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Driving a culture of transformational innovation
The Deloitte paper, The Future CFOs: Thriving in chaos and driving change, highlights the growing importance of finance for driving...
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Evolving role of a digital CFO
In the digital economy, a well-performing company, particularly a publicly traded business, must have a good handle over its financial...
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Finance teams not using full potential of shared services
Underutilized shared services means 29% more service disruptions and 19% more customer complaints
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