Benchmarking

Capital Markets

The Activist Investor: A CFO’s Unlikely Ally

Don't be caught by surprise — learn to view your company through the eyes of an activist investor.

Chris Ruggeri, Deloitte
March 7, 2019
Accounting

Metric of the Month: Number of Accounts in the Chart of Accounts

An unwieldy chart of accounts can cause significant headaches for chief financial officers.
Benchmarking

Retailers’ Financial Cycle Times: The Hare Beats the Tortoise

A new ranking of corporate speed and agility shows why some brick-and-mortar retailers, especially Macy's, are ailing.
Benchmarking

Metric of the Month: Business Entity Revenue Per Employee

Employee productivity is closely linked to organizational revenue. But how much revenue should each employee be expected to generate?
Leadership

How to Make Time For Strategic Thinking

As a busy executive, you have nearly unlimited demands on your time. Making the most of it is always smart.
M&A

A CFO’s Guide to Preparing for a Sale

A cohesive narrative will build credibility during the due diligence process and save CFOs from spending valuable time producing one-off analyses.
Compensation

Five Actions to Improve Sales Force Effectiveness

Attempts to fix a sales force's incentive plan often just create additional problems.
Governance

Prepare for This Pay-for-Performance Measure

ISS is adopting a metric that may impact how investors evaluate pay practices. Companies that don’t use it already should consider doing so.
People

Automation Won’t Reduce Finance Staffs: Study

Perhaps counterintuitively, finance executives say they don't plan to cut head-count costs in response to technology-driven efficiencies.
Cash Flow

Metric of the Month: Days Sales Outstanding

Collections are key to a low days sales outstanding (DSO) number — and the faster the money comes in, the more breathing room an organization has.
Benchmarking

Metric of the Month: Shared Services

The best-performing shared services centers (SSCs) accomplish more work with fewer employees.
Financial Reporting

Metric of the Month: Cycle Time for Monthly Close

There’s one big factor that’s key to shaving time off of this monthly process: good quality data.
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