FP&A Done Right
Recommendations from the 2024 CFO Study
The IBM Institute for Business Value states, “CFOs must be both guardians of stability and agents of transformation …CFOs supercharge technology as the transformative force in their organization.” It found that “some CFOs are leaping forward, while others are being cautious.” What…
October 25, 2024
FP&A Maturity Assessment: Where Do You Rank?
There are tangible, concrete benefits to having a mature FP&A process. These include improved decision-making, increased efficiency, agility and responsiveness, enhanced forecasting accuracy and more. How do you know if your processes are mature? Here are some key indicators: Data integration and…
October 18, 2024
Solving Financial Reporting Challenges
This is a blog post from our partner Workday, highlighting common financial reporting challenges and explaining how to solve them. Stakeholders want self-service: Reporting runs the gamut, from presenting department managers with data on how their actuals compare to budget, to showing…
May 3, 2024
The Promise of AI in Finance
This is a blog post from our partner Workday, explaining how CFOs can help bridge the AI trust gap. Potential enterprise uses of artificial intelligence and generative AI have garnered plenty of attention in recent months. AI is the next business game-changer,…
April 5, 2024
The Role of Generative AI in Forecasting
This is a blog post from our partner, Workday, highlighting findings on Generative AI from a Deloitte CFO Signals quarterly survey. In the world of finance, Generative AI has entered the chat. In a recent CFO Signals, Deloitte focused part of its…
March 22, 2024
The Future of FP&A: Intelligent Forecasting
This is an excerpt from a blog post from our partner Workday. It provides insights on how Generative AI will impact FP&A activities. Digital transformation and data go hand in hand. Most executives get this: today, the vast majority view data as…
March 8, 2024
CFOs on AI, Partnerships and Skills
This a blog post from our partner Workday, sharing thoughts from the CFOs at Kickstarter, McKinsey & Company and Workday. It’s never been more important for CFOs to understand and embrace technologies with the potential to transform the finance function—particularly as the…
February 16, 2024
Workday’s Global CFO AI Indicator Report
This a blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning, highlighting key findings in the “Global CFO AI Indicator Report,” which Workday commissioned with FT Longitude. While the opportunity for AI in finance is nearly unlimited, it can also be overwhelming. To…
January 26, 2024
The Mandate for Business Agility
This is a blog post from our partner Workday Adaptive Planning. It highlights recent research from the Association for Finance Professionals (AFP). Change and disruption are inevitable, and to tackle them, finance must intentionally build agile practices into its work. That’s according…