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CFO Magazine: CFO Leadership: Navigating Volatility While Aiming for Growth

September 9, 2022

“Data from CFO’s recent survey found few finance chiefs judge leadership skills or industry knowledge as one of the top two attributes most important in candidates. Many CFOs focus on delegating a large portion of their accounting and financial tasks to those with skills in accounting and data analysis.”

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SF Magazine: CFO to CFO: Staying the Strategic Course in Crisis

September 8, 2022

“Data analytics is critical to understanding the business at any point in time and very helpful in terms of being able to develop your pandemic response, stay ahead of trends, understand what your short-term forecast should be, and develop the longer-term forecasts.”

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CFO Journal: Automated Financial Forecasting: Upgrading Talent Models

September 7, 2022

“Functional finance expertise alone is not enough. To architect a finance function to achieve continuous forecasting, it is critical for the CFO to instill a bias for data-based decision making, continuous improvement of data and predictive models, and a passion for technology enablement.”

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Harvard Business Review: Setting Your Annual Budget Amid Economic Uncertainty

September 6, 2022

“What would a mild, moderate, and severe downturn do to your business as a whole and to each part? Get specific. Where are you most vulnerable to inflation? A drop in demand? A supply-chain snarl? What actions would you take in each case? Who should take them?”

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