Analytics

Big Data

Execs Cop to Data Dysfunction

Two-thirds of corporate leaders prefer to rely on others for accessing and using data from their own tools.

David McCann
July 25, 2019
Regulation

SOX Compliance Doesn’t Get Easier With Time

Despite ongoing expectations to the contrary, complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act remains a moving target for companies.
Analytics

Five Ways CFOs Can Use AI — Today

While AI is often overhyped, there are a number of practical applications that are available to finance chiefs.
Analytics

Salesforce to Buy Tableau in $15B Analytics Move

The acquisition combines Tableau's tools for understanding data with Salesforce's solutions for understanding customers.
Analytics

Business Intelligence: A Life Hack for Today’s CFO

BI can rescue finance executives from the large, incoherent data populations and disparate systems that make diagnosing underperformance almost impossible.
IT Value

Advanced Technologies Are Taking Over Finance

Research shows that finance departments are deploying the latest cutting-edge tools at a startlingly increasing pace.
Operations

The Two-Step Process for Achieving Agility

CFOs should push their companies to simplify planning and amplify the transfer of knowledge across the organization, says a CFO-turned-CEO.
Analytics

Amid Data Deluge, Judgment Still Makes the Difference

No matter how much data is fed to machine learning and predictive analytics tools, the key is deciding which outputs are useful and how to act on them.
Analytics

6 Tips for Establishing a Data-Driven Culture

Most companies know that implementing advanced analytics is a key to success, but many are hung up by various challenges in doing so.
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.
Technology

A Finance Chief’s Practical View of Robotics and AI

Intelligent automation boosts both day-to-day finance functions and the quality of finance's strategic insight, says Willis Towers Watson's Michael Burwell.
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.
1 2 3 … 31

Latest Articles

Leadership

America’s CEOs Pledge to Rethink Corporate Priorities

August 19, 2019
Growth Strategies

Admit It, Your Investments Are Stuck in Neutral

August 19, 2019
People

Citrix Hires Arlen Shenkman as CFO

August 19, 2019
Fraud

Kraft Settles Futures Market Manipulation Case

August 16, 2019
Global Business

Globalization Recedes from Its Prior Dominance

August 16, 2019