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CFO Magazine: 6 Areas CFOs Should Support to Build Business Resilience
“To make informed decisions related to inventory, business expenses, hiring, capital investments, and other areas, management needs clear insight into financial performance. Even if your reporting is timely and accurate, are you providing the right insights and analysis to run the business? For example, if you’ve recently expanded globally, are you providing analysis by country or region? Or are you still setting budgets and presenting results as a total group?”
CFO Magazine: For CFOs, Digital Transformation Requires Letting Go
“For the data that executive management and the board used to drive enterprise and strategic outcomes, a centralized, universal approach to data governance is still required. But for tactical outcomes and operational decision-making — like the information operations needs to diagnose performance issues, monitor market shifts, or spot business risks — the objective of data governance should be efficiency, Duffy said.”
CFO Journal: Energy and Commodities Outlook: Disruptions from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
“Despite these uncertainties, CFOs and other C-suite executives, who strive to stay ahead of price changes and supply shocks in global energy and commodities markets, can find insights and analyses for their planning and budgeting needs. Four sets of indicators to watch below can help executives identify vulnerabilities and find alternatives, possibly giving organizations an added layer of flexibility against sudden market shifts.”
CFO Magazine: 7 Core Skills of Great CFOs
“We’ve identified seven skills that top CFOs need to master in today’s evolving business climate”:
- Solid Communicator
- Able to Analyze
- Technology Aficionado
- Risk Awareness
- Look Beyond Finance
- Strategist
- Alert to Social Issues