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SF Magazine: CFO to CFO: How Finance Leads Change Management
June 7, 2021
“Technology is at the heart of what’s needed to deliver the change. Step back and ask the question, “What is it that is critically important in any business for enabling transformational change from a data and analytics perspective?” The answer would be access to accurate and granular data, along with timely and insightful reporting. Technology today has solutions and tools that allow for the efficient management and processing of the vast data pools that exist across disparate systems.”
CFO Dive: How CFOs' Digital Conservatism Hinders Progress
June 1, 2021
“More than 4 in 5 (84%) of Gartner clients said finance should be ‘digital by default’…Yet when it comes to implementing digital technology, nearly three quarters of CFOs said their teams are too cautious.”
SF Magazine: Finance and Accounting in the Virtual World
June 1, 2021
“Accountants tend to be underappreciated by the business. But when the most tedious, time-consuming processes are automated, they finally have the opportunity to showcase their value. As they begin driving business outcomes instead of reporting on what happened four weeks ago, they’re more likely to garner recognition.”
CFO Dive: Lack of Automation Preventing Efficient Financial Close: CFO Survey
May 17, 2021
“The key to driving tech adoption acceptance, particularly among finance and accounting teams, Choucair said, is to demonstrate how the technology is empowering, enabling accounting and finance staff to do more value-additive activities while removing the deadline pressure that accompanies manual processing.”
