Spreadsheets

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.

Srin Subra and Kristen Contreras
May 14, 2019
Applications

Financial Systems: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

While there is no one-size-fits-all financial system for the PE-backed universe, there is a four-step roadmap that portfolio company CFOs can employ.
Hiring

Top Talent: Here’s What It Takes to Land It

Regrettably, meaningfully productive and intellectually engaging work is not the environment in many finance organizations.
Credit & Capital

Audit Software Firm Nabs $40M in Funding

The startup, AuditBoard, offers a cloud-based platform for managing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and other aspects of internal auditing.
Spreadsheets

CFO’s Tech Companies to Watch 2018: Adaptive Insights

Without the cloud, it isn’t possible to build planning models that are powerful enough or that can refresh all relevant data, says Adaptive's CFO.
Tech

CFO’s Tech Companies to Watch 2018: Exabeam

Five-year-old Exabeam brings a big-data approach to security information and event management.
Spreadsheets

Will Treasurers Ever Dump Their Spreadsheets?

Treasury management systems are making inroads in small and mid-size organizations, but the progress is slow.
major disruptors
Applications

CFO’s Tech Companies to Watch 2018: Major Disruptors

These 10 companies aim to disrupt and remake some key enterprise technology markets.
Technology

Digital Transformation on a Budget

The digital transformation is underway. But does finance have the resources to pull it off?
Analytics

The Problem with Pie Charts

Despite sophisticated tools that let executives create eye-popping visual displays, clear, instantly meaningful charts and graphs are rare.
Tax

Tax Compliance Toughens for Intercompany Transactions

Many U.S. companies are still making the internal process changes needed to comply with the OECD's base erosion and profit shifting project.
Tax

Presidential Campaign Spotlights Net Operating Losses

While federal NOL rules are fairly straightforward, state rules are complex. And there are different ones for each state.
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