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CFO Dive: Making FP&A Analysts the CFO’s Braintrust
August 23, 2021
“The goal is to identify levers in each function area that drives that part of the organization’s overall success, put a dollar amount to the levers so leadership can know how much spend will result in how much improved performance, and then course-correct as the metrics rise or fall.”
Industry Week: Visibility Is Everything in the New Automotive Supply Chain
August 20, 2021
“Traditionally, it has been very difficult to create a line of sight through an entire automotive supply chain for a variety of reasons, including a lack of trust and communication between stakeholders, reliance on poor volume forecasts and outmoded data management systems. The result is an unknown number of potentially disastrous threat vectors that remain buried until it’s too late to avoid them.”
CFO Journal: CFOs Hold Varied Roles in Leading, Guiding Transformations
August 18, 2021
“As sponsors of company transformations, CFOs were most likely to play this role with respect to technology/systems upgrades (56%), strategy/model/offering shifts (48%), and process efficiency/redesign (20%).”
CFO Dive: 5 CFO Tips for Rebuilding FP&A from Pandemic Ruin
August 17, 2021
““COVID-19 changed the future direction for most companies and so FP&A — and especially forecasting the future — became much more important””.
