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In-depth articles exploring cost management strategies, profitability frameworks, cost-to-serve analysis, and financial decision support. These pieces provide practical guidance for finance and operations leaders navigating complex cost structures.

Harvard Business Review: Build Better Management Systems to Put Your Data to Work

“Most companies continue to struggle in managing their data and putting it to work. They expend a lot of time...

CFO Dive: 3 Ways CFOs Can Help Tackle Supply Chain Disruptions

“CFOs can use scenario planning to help identify, evaluate and compare the alternatives from a comprehensive financial, operational and tax...

FP&A Trends: Tips and Hints On Implementing Driver-Based Models

“The first step in building a driver-based model is the decomposition of the business model. The easiest way would be...

CFO Dive: Practical Tips for Forging a Stronger CFO-COO Partnership

“COOs are learning to recognize the value of the CFO perspective as beyond that of a mere “numbers cruncher.” Empowered...

CFO Dive: Technology Literacy is Key for Candidates Aspiring to the CFO Seat

“The study of 500 current CFOs as well as CFO aspirants…found a growing desire among respondents to unlock their organization’s...

CFO Journal: How CFOs Can Drive More Value Through IT

“In the not-so-distant past, finance leaders typically played a limited role in IT, periodically huddling with CIOs to scrutinize the...

CFO Magazine: A 10-Step Playbook for New PE-Backed CFOs

“In addition, 91% of sponsors said their PE-backed CFOs weren’t meeting their “manage the business” expectations. Managing the business is...

CFO Journal: 7 Principles of Dynamic Finance

“Leverage modern, compatible, and continuously updating platforms that can transform and scale with the business. Take advantage of platforms that...

CFO Dive: FP&A in Spreadsheets: When ‘that’s how it’s always been done’ Doesn’t Cut It Anymore

“But spreadsheets on their own are indeed broken – or at the very least, they add to the likelihood that...

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