CFO Journal: 2025 Finance Predictions: The Pandemic Effect

“Some of our fundamental assumptions were on target. Underlying many of the original predictions was an awareness that the role of finance—and how it would add value to the business—would shift dramatically by 2025. As automation absorbed a growing number of operational tasks, the function’s increasingly business-savvy professionals would proactively provide analysis for decision-making, collaborating with partners across the enterprise in high-value activities like scenario planning and advanced forecasting. “Finance,” the report said, “will have a bigger say in how decisions get made throughout the enterprise.””

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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, and operations. Pricing is critical—it touches everything in the organization. Companies should have a coordinating function that forces a dialog between CMOs and CFOs, and they should have the data, insights, and tools to support it.”

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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 of cake. A Harvard Business Review Analytic Services study found that many finance teams struggle with accurately preparing, reconciling, and accessing high volumes of information; integrating recent or real-time data into analyses; and analyzing data, forming recommendations, and communicating them.”

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CFO Journal: The Inflation Outlook: Preparing for the Unpredictable

“In order to help executives prepare for a future no one can predict, Deloitte recently developed a set of scenarios to explore the question: How might inflation evolve in the U.S. over the next three years, and what could be the impacts on large organizations?“

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Global Finance Magazine: Global C-Suiters Name Their Fears

“Supply chain disruptions are overwhelmingly felt by executives in the manufacturing sector, who rank them as the top external impact issue in the coming year. However, only 28% of CEOs globally say their organizations are well prepared to address future supply chain shocks.”

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CFO Dive: 5 CFO trends to watch in 2022

“But few issues that CFOs can expect to deal with in 2022, from pricing goods and services to setting wages and salaries to managing taxes, will be addressed without the specter of inflation hanging over them.”

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CFO Journal: Talent, Performance, Growth: CFOs’ Top Priorities for 2022

“To improve financial performance and boost their companies’ bottom lines, CFOs indicate that they plan to use a range of levers, such as increasing margins, sharpening EBITDA, increasing efficiencies, managing profitability, and hitting transformational milestones. Pricing is another lever they intend to utilize, including to navigate inflation. In fact, more than three-fourths (76%) of CFOs note their organizations will raise prices for a substantial portion of their products and services to offset inflation.”

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CFO Magazine: A CFO Action Plan for 2022

“Providing accurate reporting and insightful data, monitoring and managing cash flow, and developing strategic plans for growth (with contingency plans for setbacks) has never been more critical. Now is also the time to revisit organizational and cost structures, identifying opportunities to streamline, cut costs, and protect the business.”

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SF Magazine: What’s Keeping CFOs Up at Night in 2022?

“After the roller-coaster ride of 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, companies around the world are eager for a return to more typical operating conditions.” And here are the concerns that at the top of the list for CFOs in 2022:

• Supply chain disruptions
• Employee retention
• Developing a talent pipeline
• Automation
• Digital transformation
• Leading business transformation

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