Top 5 Articles of 2022
As 2022 comes to an end, we would like to take a second look back at some of the articles that our readers found most insightful in 2022. 1. Growing Shortage of Accountants and CPAs The accounting, CPA, and corporate finance industry is facing an accountant shortage....
Creating Smart Goals for Accountants
What Are SMART Goals? One of the most widely used—and effective—approaches to goal setting is called SMART, which stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. This helps you and your teams create clear goals with defined and attainable...
Top Accounting Trends 2023
The last two years have brought about rapid and sweeping changes to the accounting industry. In 2023, issues involving technology, regulatory compliance, and the talent shortage will take center stage, presenting evolving challenges to accountants, CPAs, and corporate...
Meet the Finance Director – Interview Series – Ashley Peña
As part of the Meet the Controller/CFO series, the Controllers Council recently interviewed Ashley Pena, Finance Director of the New York Philharmonic, where she is part of a team that facilitated a strategic and financial turnaround. She manages day-to-day finance...
What Corporate Finance Executives Need to Know About Change Management
Technology may drive the need for organizational change, but true change happens amongst flesh-and-blood team members. Change management can be challenging, especially since the results so deeply depend on employee morale alongside the effectiveness of new processes...
CFOs: Take the Lead in ESG Accountability
What Is ESG? Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a set of standards for a company’s behavior used by socially conscious investors and consumers to screen potential investments or business deals. As a concept, sustainability is easy to understand....
The Continued CPA and Accountant Shortage in 2023
Financial professionals are in short supply. Though the industry peaked in 2019, the number of accountants, CPAs, and corporate finance workers dropped by 17% by 2021, according to Bloomberg Tax Analysis, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that...
The 4 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Spend Optimization Platform
Spend optimization is so much more than spend management—it is an integrated approach to corporate spend that uses automation at scale, digital transformation, and data visibility to achieve frictionless finance. For finance leaders who understand that financial...
Autonomous Finance Defined and How CFOs Can Achieve It
In the face of unprecedented talent shortages, companies are using the latest technologies to streamline their administrative and financial processes. Among the most recent innovations is autonomous finance, a data-driven approach that can automate core activities...
Managing Corporate F&A Talent-Webcast Highlights
Controllers Council recently held a webinar on Managing Corporate F&A Talent, sponsored by Oracle NetSuite. Our panelists included Barbara Salazar, Michael Mance, and Christine Gu. Barbara Salazar is a CPA and chief financial officer of E2 Consulting Engineers,...
Managing Foreign Exchange Volatility
Not since the 1980s have we seen the type of exchange rate volatility in the world’s major currencies that we’ve seen recently. (see volatility charts below for 1980s and recent) For example, just in the past three months the Euro has fallen 3.46% against the US...
Finance and Accounting Job Descriptions: Comptroller
Most major corporations rely on a chief financial officer (CFO) or other senior-level financial personnel. But the government, education centers, and nonprofit organizations more typically rely on a type of employee known as a comptroller. Not all comptrollers are...
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