CFO Journal: Financial Reporting Considerations: Supply Chain and Labor Disruptions

“For many companies, such disruption is significantly increasing the costs associated with moving goods through the supply chain. If the higher costs are included in inventory, companies should consider whether these costs drive up the cost of the inventory in such a way that adjustments based on the expected net realizable value of the inventory are warranted.”

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CFO Journal: Check it Twice: A Checklist for Rethinking Capital Allocation

CFO Journal came up with a checklist for re-evaluating your allocations strategy – and here are some of the items on that list:

“Data. Do you have the data and insights you need to make informed decisions? Work with your stakeholders to determine what those are, where they need to come from, and how you can get them.

Tools. Where could data analytics, scenario planning, and risk-sensing tools improve your decision-making? Which tools do you already have, and which do you need? Engage your stakeholders on what data they need to generate from their business units.”

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SF Magazine: From Controller to CFO

Some of the ways that controllers provide increased value:

• Driving finance transformation through automation and process improvement
• Overseeing the integrity of financial data coming from technology systems within the enterprise
• Providing enhanced information for decision making and resource allocation
• Increasing speed in reporting critical information and decision makers

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SF Magazine: CFO to CFO: Budgeting to Fund Strategic Plans

“It starts with finance being a business partner across the organization. For us, the finance organization isn’t on the sideline, waiting to be called in to the game; they’re on the field, part of running the plays that are called. And with that, there’s a clear partnership with our operations, commercial, and technical colleagues, which makes it a lot easier to inform the decision-making process.”

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CFO Journal: Common Traits, Challenges of Transformational CFOs

CFOs: Consider these questions when assessing your own transformation-leading qualities:

1. Am I willing to rethink ROI?
2. Can I introduce new metrics?
3. Am I comfortable provoking my peers?
4. Can I convey a sense of mission and a set of values to employees, customers, and other stakeholders?

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CFO Journal: What Makes Transformations Work?

“It means rejecting the myth that transformation is “an event with a start and end, whereby organizations migrate from one steady state to another as opposed to a continuous process of adapting to a highly volatile, ambiguous and uncertain environment shaped by multiple, overlapping disruptions.””

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CFO Journal: Reduce Misstatement Risk While Creating Value

“Advanced technology, including automated workflow and controls testing, is an increasingly common feature of a modern internal control environment. These tools can provide real-time information and seamless communication among critical stakeholders—control owners, the internal controls team, and external auditors—to provide an efficient, effective program.”

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CFO Magazine: The ABCs of CPM Software

“While some CFOs are ahead of the curve in using CPM, most are not. They often see spreadsheets as the quickest and fastest way to stand up some level of CPM-related competencies. Unfortunately, that approach is usually not very successful.”

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CFO Journal: Finance 2025: Operating Models, Data Integration, ERP, and the Workforce

“Does your company have a streamlined finance data infrastructure that can help you take advantage of advanced technologies and deliver insights? Finance data serves as a core foundational component of other accelerants, such as extracting an increasingly sophisticated level of business insights that can drive corporate strategy and are also relevant to stakeholders. This will require a comprehensive driver-based data architecture that tells the full back story and doesn’t just report on the outcomes without the underlying causes.”

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