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CFO Journal: Fragile Supply Chains Confront Ongoing Threat From the Russia-Ukraine War
August 9, 2022
“How detailed is your supply chain information? Visibility into suppliers is only as comprehensive as the information that is being captured and reported. Companies may identify and survey their most critical suppliers, but they often stop there. In the Deloitte procurement survey, 75% of CPOs chose enhanced supplier information-sharing as their top supply risk mitigation strategy. Visibility into suppliers’ operational performance can be critical in meeting sudden changes in demand.”
CFO Dive: CFOs to Boost IT, Tech Budgets in Face of Inflation: Gartner
August 8, 2022
““We’re increasingly seeing sort of a pivot in finance, [where we’re] moving away from finance being the transactional record keeper to finance becoming more of the financial insights department,” Horvat said in an interview. “So what we’re seeing is CFOs leveraging new data and analytics techniques…to identify abilities to save money within the organization.””
CFO Insights: Future scenarios: Are CFOs Too Worried About Inflation—or Not Worried Enough?
August 5, 2022
“As CFOs watch inflation numbers rise month after month, so may the intensity of their concerns. Now that it has climbed to an altitude unseen for 40 years, they may be tempted to assume that it is bound to go even higher.
But what if the picture we have today isn’t a reliable guide to what’s ahead? What if by next year inflation is trending down? Or maybe even has dropped into disinflation, with the Consumer Price Index hovering between 0% and 1% as a result of a faster-than-expected resolution of supply chain disruptions combined with diminished consumer demand.”
FP&A Trends: Time to Make a Difference – Value Creation through FP&A Business Partnering
August 5, 2022
“We are model builders and, through our understanding, build various different scenarios to guide the business through to find the optimal outcome that creates maximum value.”
