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COVID-19 Aftermath: Moving Beyond Quick Fixes to Sustainable Value Creation
What else can companies do to help drive their businesses' short-term cash flows and fund their long-term ambitions?
Gregory W. Schooley
July 28, 2020
Strategy
Companies Brace for Impacts to Top & Bottom Lines
Most companies are quickly shifting strategies as they size up COVID-19's likely impacts on revenue and profits, PwC finds.
Strategy
Making the CFO the Chief Profitability Officer
"The most important issue facing most managers in this difficult economy is making more money from the existing business without costly new initiatives. "
Cash Management
Metric of the Month: Total Cost to Manage and Process Collections
Smart companies take a strategic approach to spend less on collections.
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Strategy
Why Isn’t Your Transformation Showing Up in the Bottom Line?
Transformation success rates vary widely. Finance can make a big difference by articulating and validating the link between transformation and value.
Financial Planning & Analysis
Why Procurement Savings Get Lost in Translation
Create a "closed-loop" system so that business unit leaders don't eat up all the savings before corporate leaders can decide what to do with the gains.
Cost Management
Fast and Easy G&A Cuts Won’t Cut It in the Next Downturn
Following the last recession, functional leaders learned the hard way that it can take years to recover from deep cost reductions.
Financial Planning & Analysis
Break the Bad Habit of Overreacting to Metrics
Quarter-to-quarter fluctuations may be no reason to pull out your hair, and other tips for evaluating metrics.
Risk Management
Metric of the Month: How Quickly Businesses Adapt to New Risks
When a risk becomes a reality, top performers act to change policies and strategies quickly.
Strategy
Technology to Alter Finance’s Business Partner Role
Intelligent automation and advanced analytics mean finance will have to embed fewer team members within business units: KPMG "Future of Finance" report.
Strategy
Mismatch: Finance Roles’ Importance vs. Performance
Finance executives weigh in as strident critics of their teams' — and their own — performance in key disciplines.
People
Finance Function 2019: Fewer Functionaries, More Strategists
Heading into the new year, technology is starting to wipe out lower-level number crunchers in favor of mid-level team members focused on strategy.
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