Financial Planning & Analysis

Strategy

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.
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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