The Traditional and Emerging CFO-CIO Relationship Dynamic
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) and CFO have long had an adversarial relationship. CIOs are charged with driving technological development in a company while CFOs focus on keeping expenditures within profitable margins. For a long time, the CIO and CFO have been...
What Does Cryptocurrency Mean for the Finance Organization?
More than a few experts predicted that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin will disrupt finance as we know it today. From a few cents to an all-time high of 65,000USD, Bitcoin has gained price value as well as recognition. Despite its unpredictable nature, many still...
How Finance Leaders Can Overcome the Top Intercompany Accounting Challenges
Controllers for organizations with multiple subsidiaries know the pain of intercompany accounting. Unbalanced intercompany accounts can lead to inaccurate financial reporting and difficulties with financial statement consolidation. Thus, if you see areas in your...
Credit Risk Management Best Practices
Any time you provide a product or service to a client and later invoice them for payment, you undertake a risk that you won’t be paid. Effective credit risk management is imperative to the success of your business. What is Meant by Credit Risk? When you invoice...
Controllers Roadmap to Build a Best-in-Class Finance Team – Highlights
Controllers Council recently held a webinar panel discussion on Controllers Roadmap to Build a Best-in-Class Finance Team, sponsored by HighRadius. Our guest speaker was Morris Kupfer, VP of Finance at HighRadius, reporting to the office of the CFO at HighRadius at...
Tax and ESG
In today’s business climate, it’s not enough to simply generate a strong bottom line. Many companies aim to meet Environmental Social Governance (ESG) criteria. To satisfy these criteria, an organization must meet certain benchmarks when it comes to sustainable...
Controllership Trends in 2022
Recent years have brought both challenges and change to corporate America. By now, every industry has been impacted in some way by the global pandemic and supply chain issues. Domestically, businesses and financial professionals struggle to navigate rising rates of...
Automate or Stagnate: The Case for Advanced Tech in the Finance Back Office – Webinar Highlights
Controllers Council recently held a Webinar Discussion on the hot topic of Automate or Stagnate – The Case for Advanced Tech in the Finance Back Office, sponsored by Auditoria.AI Nick Ezzo, VP of Marketing and Elaine Nowak, Director Product Marketing at Auditoria.AI,...
Guide to eCommerce Accounting
Online merchants face unique challenges, and these challenges demand some unique accounting considerations. This guide will explore 6 accounting issues that affect the eCommerce industry, and help you stay on top of your inventory, cash flow, and more. 1. Choosing an...
How To Prevent Cash Flow Problems
Business cash flow management is essential, in particular for small businesses. It pays salaries and bills and allows to invest in growth. But no business is safe from unexpected cash flow problems, whether they are due to late payments, a customer insolvency or an...
Corporate Governance Trends in 2022
For many American companies, 2021 represented both the best of times and the worst of times. The rollout of the COVID vaccine offered a momentary boost of energy, but this was soon dampened by the Omicron variant, supply chain issues, and problems abroad. What will...
Scale without Fail: Grow your Business with Financial Close Automation
After two years, discussions that center around the challenges of the “Great Resignation'' and post-pandemic recovery are starting to get old - yet both continue to persist and have a tremendous impact on businesses in various ways. As a result, while most companies...
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