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CFO Journal: How CMOs and CFOs Can Collaborate on Pricing
January 27, 2022
“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.”
FP&A Trends: How to Manage Profitability in Uncertain Times
January 26, 2022
“Profitability is more than revenue minus cost…For example, along with revenue, costs/expenses, it also is important to know the life cycle of the product, or the entire product portfolio and its business drivers. Macro concepts like the business sector and economy also play part in arriving at profitability holistically.”
CFO Journal: Reimagine the Future of Internal Controls
January 24, 2022
“Organizations can leverage the recent rapid acceleration of digital transformations to automate and monitor many controls operations. Automation can help alleviate some of the pressure on internal controls functions, reduce costs, drive efficiency, and promote effective management of risks and opportunities. Automation combined with powerful analytics can also create transparency into key risks, business objectives, and controls in a visualized fashion, building confidence, intelligence, and performance—three important elements of an effective FoC strategy.”
