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CFO Dive: Bad Use of FP&A Costs U.S. Companies $7.8B a Year
January 17, 2022
“Manual data inputting leads to errors, which can lead to reputational hits. It also leads to siloed operations, which can put an organization at the mercy of a single employee. When a bookkeeper at the Florida Republican Party passed away, the organization couldn’t access the data the person managed, causing it to miss a Federal Election Commission reporting deadline. “The employee did not share with other members how to work the software, rendering it unworkable after he died,” the report says. That kind of thing, along with reporting errors, can impact the organization’s reputation, which, for a company relying on investment capital, can impact the amount of money it can attract and at what cost.”
CFO Journal: The Inflation Outlook: Preparing for the Unpredictable
January 14, 2022
“In order to help executives prepare for a future no one can predict, Deloitte recently developed a set of scenarios to explore the question: How might inflation evolve in the U.S. over the next three years, and what could be the impacts on large organizations?“
Global Finance Magazine: Global C-Suiters Name Their Fears
January 13, 2022
“Supply chain disruptions are overwhelmingly felt by executives in the manufacturing sector, who rank them as the top external impact issue in the coming year. However, only 28% of CEOs globally say their organizations are well prepared to address future supply chain shocks.”
CFO Dive: 5 CFO trends to watch in 2022
January 12, 2022
“But few issues that CFOs can expect to deal with in 2022, from pricing goods and services to setting wages and salaries to managing taxes, will be addressed without the specter of inflation hanging over them.”
