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    Top CFO conferences to attend in 2027

    At events worldwide, finance leaders will explore regulatory compliance, private equity fund operations, finance technology adoption and more.

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    Dura Software cuts finance processing time by more than 90% with AI

    Software holding company connects Anthropic's Claude to NetSuite to prepare journal entries, automate reporting and accelerate the close.

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    Small B2B firms grapple with rising operating costs

    A significant proportion of SMEs are challenged to meet important key performance indicators, per a new multi-vendor report.

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    CFOs On the Move: Week ending Nov. 6

    Pfizer makes its interim CFO permanent, PNC names a CFO successor and Rover taps an Amazon exec as finance chief.

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    The 6 a.m. CFO: How Hippo Insurance’s Guy Zeltser starts his day

    Zeltser explains why unexpected change can be an opportunity for growth, why he protects an hour each morning for focused work and his go-to karaoke song.

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    Opinion

    Your forecast is only as good as last month’s close

    A 13-week forecast built on reconciled numbers is more useful than a model built on questionable actuals. Here are three habits that make a forecast trustworthy.

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    Ottimate’s Dan Kim says entrepreneurship made him a better CFO

    Before he took the top finance job at the automated accounts payable software company, Kim co-founded a company of his own.

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    Companies expect to implement modest price increases in 2027

    Report questions whether pricing plans are aggressive enough, given rising costs.

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    Opinion

    How to turn around a failing business: A cash-first playbook

    When liquidity gets tight, finance leaders must take full ownership of cash and quickly identify where value is being created and destroyed.

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    O-I Glass CFO named in class action lawsuit alleging securities fraud

    CEO Gordon Hardie and CFO John Haudrich made statements that led shareholders to purchase O-I Glass stock at “artificially inflated prices,” a shareholder alleges.

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    CFOs expect AI to pay off in 2 years: survey

    In a survey of 400 finance chiefs around the world, half said they expect to see “significant positive” ROI from artificial intelligence in 24 months.

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    Opinion

    New finance means continuously updating truth and choice

    Core finance establishes what is true, growth finance uses that truth to shape choices and new finance continuously updates both as conditions change, writes Cognizant CFO Jatin Dalal.

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    For successful M&A, define the new operating model before the deal closes

    Delivering on a deal’s thesis requires knowing what the combined company must change, a new report advises.

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    Opinion

    AI is changing the business model, not just the tech stack

    As firms prepare their 2027 budgets, CFOs need to move beyond AI experimentation and rethink how work gets done, capital is allocated and business value is created.

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    CFOs On the Move: Week ending Oct. 30

    Goodyear hires a new finance chief, Norwegian Cruise Line names an insider as chief financial officer and Etsy starts its search for a new CFO. 

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    Wallpaper company’s ex-CFO gets federal prison time for embezzling

    Tina Feuerstein, previously the finance chief of York Wallcoverings, has also been ordered to pay back over $1 million in restitution.

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    Inmar’s longtime CFO on merits of lateral career moves

    Rich Schmidt, finance chief of the North Carolina-based coupon reimbursement firm for over a decade, says a “penchant for wanting to solve problems” is a trait shared by his top employees.

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    The 6 a.m. CFO: How FiveNines Group’s Ramnik Kapur starts her day

    Kapur explains the importance of switching off to recharge, why she prefers phone calls to long email threads and her go-to snack for a stressful morning.

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    As AI use grows, so does CFOs’ responsibility for managing it

    Yet more than half are still reviewing the technology’s related costs more reactively than proactively, per a new Deloitte survey.

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    Opinion

    When finance transformation changes the work but not the accountability

    Transformations often change how work gets done faster than they change who is formally responsible for it, which can create novel challenges for the CFO.

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    Apollo exec says AI has ‘zero financial payoff’ beyond tech sector

    Though the artificial intelligence boom has helped lift the stocks of a few tech giants, it’s done little for other S&P 500 firms, argues Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok.

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    FedEx hires AutoZone’s Jamere Jackson as CFO

    The new finance chief's pay package includes a $2 million signing bonus, paid in two installments a year apart.

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    Holtec’s ex-CFO awarded $2.1M in whistleblowing case

    Kevin O’Rourke alleged he was fired from the company for refusing to share a prospectus with a potential investor because he believed it included “false and misleading statements."

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    For the majority of companies, risk management still resides in siloes

    A new Grant Thornton study makes the case for more integration of risk functions, especially cybersecurity.

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    CFOs On the Move: Week ending Oct. 23

    Union Pacific’s CFO to retire after 35 years, Mach Industries appoints former GM exec as CFO and Pittsburgh Penguins hire a longtime Washington Nationals exec as CFO.  

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    84% of PE-backed CFOs build budgets in Excel despite automation push

    When it comes to handing finance activities to AI, private equity-backed finance leaders show the most resistance around forecasting and budgeting, according to a new Accordion survey.