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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.

CFO Journal: How CMOs and CFOs Can Collaborate on Pricing

“Companies should build a capability around pricing and revenue management, just as they have built capabilities around R&D, finance, marketing,...

FP&A Trends: How to Manage Profitability in Uncertain Times

“Profitability is more than revenue minus cost…For example, along with revenue, costs/expenses, it also is important to know the life cycle of...

CFO Journal: Remove Blinders to Navigate Uncertainty

“At a time when companies face competition that is both fiercer and faster, using an obstructed or incomplete outlook as...

CFO Journal: Reimagine the Future of Internal Controls

“Organizations can leverage the recent rapid acceleration of digital transformations to automate and monitor many controls operations. Automation can help...

FP&A Trends: Financial Planning in the Age of Uncertainty

“Uncertainty can take many forms. It can manifest in a natural disaster, the merger or acquisition of a competitor, geopolitical...

Harvard Business Review: 3 Strategic Options to Deal with Inflation

“Inflation in 2022 is a different story. Managers now enjoy a level of market visibility and agility that their predecessors...

CFO Journal: How to Act in the Face of Uncertainty

“Until recently, business leaders could assume that the immediate future would bear enough resemblance to the recent past that they...

CFO Magazine: 2022 Outlook: CFOs’ 4 Realms of Risk

“Corralling all the data required to get better at planning and forecasting and timely decision-making will not be a piece...

CFO Dive: Bad Use of FP&A Costs U.S. Companies $7.8B a Year

“Manual data inputting leads to errors, which can lead to reputational hits. It also leads to siloed operations, which can...

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