Performance Improvement

Raising the Internal Profile for Finance

Performance Improvement

Raising the Internal Profile for Finance

Businesses today are operating in an increasingly complex, volatile, uncertain and competitive environment. To cope with these challenges, organizations are increasingly calling on their finance teams to move beyond their traditional role of historical performance reporting and start providing more forward-looking decision support. In the past, businesses have focused more on lean accounting practices to read more

Providing Effective Decision Support: What CFOs Need to Know

Performance Improvement

Providing Effective Decision Support: What CFOs Need to Know

One of the challenges facing today’s finance executives in transforming the finance organization from a back office function into a successful front office strategic advisory role is a shortage of talented finance professionals and leaders. Without the necessary finance talent and an operating model to support finance transformation initiatives, it is increasingly difficult for CFOs read more

Is Your Finance Function Ready For Change?

Performance Improvement

Is Your Finance Function Ready For Change?

Last month, CFO Research in collaboration with the business process management firm WNS, released a report on the Finance Function’s Readiness for Change. The report is worth reading and discusses how finance organizations can prepare themselves for the corporate and market demands of the future, and help their companies realize full value from data and drive read more