CFO Magazine: Dispelling the Myths About CPM Implementations
November 23, 2021
“CFOs must understand that the benefits of CPM to quickly recoup the investment and lead to value creation in both hard and soft dollars. Among the former, the technology drives down costs by allowing business-unit comparisons to identify and leverage best practices. But there is a soft-dollar return that CFOs should not overlook. CPM technologies enable CFOs to realign their finance department work to higher value-add functions (decrease in data collection, reconciliation, and consolidation; increase in business analyses and support). And, the insights realized as a result of a CPM system investment help finance chiefs make more informed business decisions and more easily course-correct when circumstances change.”