To add value and move beyond their focus on processing, treasury departments must win management buy-in, automate, and reach out to other functions.
New accounting standards, greater M&A activity, and PCAOB documentation requests drove up fees, according to the Financial Executives Research Foundation.
Perhaps counterintuitively, finance executives say they don't plan to cut head-count costs in response to technology-driven efficiencies.
Senior finance executives detail machine learning and blockchain efforts aimed at making revenue forecasting and cross-border financing more efficient.
The revenue recognition standard will turn a diverse set of industry standards into “one framework about how to think about revenue.”
The chief executives of two health-care giants want the industry to move further toward payments based on quality of care.
Years after going to prison, disgraced CFOs try to make something good come from their crimes by telling finance executives how they went wrong.
Some finance executives think their positions could be replaced by technology, a new poll suggests.
A noted economist explains in detail why the president-elect's tax and spending proposals would have horrific consequences.
The lab equipment firm's $4.2 billion purchase of FEI gives it access to technology used by biopharma companies to develop drugs.
SEC filers paid external auditors an average of $1.5 million in 2014, with the median fee coming in at $402,812.
Accounting standard setters may push back the effective date of new revenue recognition rules, says a FASB assistant director.
