Articles

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: 2025 Finance Predictions: The Pandemic Effect

“As real-time information moves closer to reality, and business analysis grows increasingly automated, finance will likely bolster its efficiency by...

SF Magazine: The Four Levers of Revenue Management

4 key levers of revenue management modified from the Dupont ROI Framework: Pricing Basis Inventory Allocation Product Configuration Duration Control...

IndustryWeek: Manufacturing CEOs Share What’s Keeping Them Up at Night

2 out of the 5 current pain points for manufacturing CEOs: Global supply chain disruptions Commodity and raw material prices...

CFO Magazine: Cycle Time to Complete the Annual Budget: Metric of the Month

“Based on data from more than 3,900 organizations in our Open Standards Benchmarking survey for Planning and Management Accounting, APQC...

CFO Journal: How CMOs and CFOs Can Collaborate on Pricing

“Pricing is critical—it touches everything in the organization. Companies should have a coordinating function that forces a dialog between CMOs...

CFO Journal: Tap Indirect Procurement as a Source of Savings

“Before they can make strategic decisions about indirect purchases—such as standardizing all cost-related policies—CFOs need to arrange the fragmented pieces...

FP&A Trends: The Winning Formula of Integrated FP&A

According to FP&A Trends, these 4 areas need to be strong in the foundation of Integrated FP&A in order to...

CFO Journal: Modernized Reporting for a Rapidly Changing World

“Connected, integrated reporting can provide many benefits to organizations by helping produce consistent, high-quality data through a streamlined process to...

Global Finance Magazine: Inflation: Here to Stay?

“Geale says his firm is advising CFO clients to factor higher prices into their strategic planning and to wring savings...

Contact us today to see how ImpactECS can help you.

Start your journey to better cost and profit insights with ImpactECS.