Navigating the 2024 Budgeting Season: A Comprehensive Guide for Finance Teams (Part 2)
In part one of our two-part blog series covering the upcoming 2024 budgeting season, we discussed the various challenges that chief financial officers (CFOS) and controllers are very likely to encounter. While there is no shortage of hurdles coming down the pipeline...
Navigating the 2024 Budgeting Season: A Comprehensive Guide for Finance Teams (Part 1)
As the end of 2023 rapidly approaches and your organization enters the much-anticipated 2024 budgeting season, the pressure is on for both you and your finance team. Each budgeting season presents no shortage of opportunities to propel your business forward in the...
Sustainability vs. ESG: Key Distinctions
In the modern business landscape, “sustainability” and “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) are commonly used buzzwords that are typically regarded as interchangeable. However, for chief financial officers (CFOs) and financial controllers, it is critical to...
Collaborative Finance: How Controllers Can Transform Finance Into a Team Sport
Traditionally, finance departments have relied on compartmentalized workflows as opposed to interconnected, communication-centric processes. While that approach has proven effective in the past, the increasingly complex nature of modern financial processes has...
CFO Job Security: What You Need to Know
Recent economic and geopolitical events have everyone concerned about job security, including controllers and chief financial officers (CFOs). While recent reports suggest that the U.S. economy is in a cyclical slowdown that is helping to mitigate the risks of a...
Transforming AP Using AI – Webcast Highlights
Controllers Council recently held a panel discussion on Transforming AP Using AI, sponsored by BILL. BILL is a leader in financial automation software for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Our expert panelists are Eitan Anzenberg and Joe Fleischer. Eitan Anzenberg...
Controller/CFO KPIs: Net Profit Margin
CFOs and controllers leverage a broad array of key performance indicators (KPIs) to effectively monitor the financial health of their organizations and protect their business continuity. A few common examples include EBITDA, operating cash flow, days sales outstanding...
How Leading Companies Gain Control Over Their Spend – Webcast Highlights
Controllers Council recently held a webcast panel discussion on How Leading Companies Gain Control Over Their Spend, sponsored by Brex. Brex is the first fully unified global spend platform with corporate cards, expense management, reimbursements, bill pay,...
How Companies are Reducing Costs in the 2023 U.S. Economic Environment
Parts of our economy is declining which would indicate that we are in an inflation, but the key metrics is business hiring. The US economy is sticking to a soft landing. Investopedia states that soft landing is a cyclical slowdown in economic growth that...
Corporate Finance & Accounting Talent Study Results – Webcast Highlights
Controllers Council recently held a webinar on the Corporate Finance & Accounting Talent: Study Preview and Panel Discussion. The objective of the study was to identify how controllers, CFOs, and related executives are managing finance and accounting or F&A...
CFO and Controller Roles in Mergers and Acquisitions: Key Considerations for Successful Integration
Every member of the C-suite plays a critical role in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, including CFOs and controllers. Whereas other members of the executive leadership team are tasked with addressing the logistics of M&A transactions, CFOs,...
Finance Professionals Receive Highest Pay Raise in 10 Years
Each year, the Association for Financial Professionals conducts a compensation survey that assesses finance and treasury professional earnings. The 2023 AFP Compensation Survey revealed that professionals in these verticals received a 5% increase in their 2022 base...
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