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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.

3C Software: Defining the Role of Costing for Manufacturing Leaders: How to Establish a Cost Culture

Finance leaders Brent Williams and John Lutz give insights into their organizations that have embraced a cost culture and highlight...

SF Magazine: Managing Digital Transformation

“Develop a data-driven decision culture: CFOs and senior finance professionals can promote a data-driven decision culture by challenging finance employees as...

CFO Dive: For Spirit Airlines’ CFO, It All Comes Back to Math

“The cost-cutting challenge stems from the mismatch between the short-term nature of the problem and the long-term assets of the...

Forbes: No Time To Recline: La-Z-Boy’s CFO On The Demands Facing Finance Leaders In 2021

“I often say the CFO’s (or any finance leader’s) role is to understand the business as well as the CEO,...

Industry Week: Operations Managers: Rising to the Challenges of 2021

“Operations leaders remain under pressure to deliver outstanding results. It is important to remember that simply driving efficiency and reducing...

CFO Magazine: The Complexities of a COVID-19 Year-End

“As CFOs face the demands of year-end accounting and financial reporting, they’re pondering which issues need to be front and...

CFO Journal: Financial Reporting Trends: Forecasting, Communication, Internal Controls

“While there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to addressing current forecasting challenges, the following strategies have proven to be effective...

CFO Dive: 5 CFO trends to watch in 2021

Real-time data makes the list, again, in trends for CFOs to pay attention to this year. Here are all five...

Forbes: From Bookkeeper To Business Leader: How Finance Pros Shape Strategy And Culture

“The finance profession has evolved from a singular focus on financial reporting to a strategic role in helping advance core...

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