Five Technologies Controllers Should Know in the 2020s
If 2020 wasn’t the year of the word “unprecedented,” it was the year of disruption. Disruption, disruptive, or disrupted was thrown about throughout the year to explain how workflows, processes, or technologies have changed. But disruption is not new. Digital...
Five Steps to Addressing Capex Risk Management
Capital expenditures are a balance of risk and reward—risk and reward that has been kicked into overdrive in the past year. Money is tight and many leaders may have seen their capital project plans delayed or changed as a result of the recession. But as a long-term...
Denied PPP Forgiveness? Another Option Might Reduce Liability
After a year of tumultuous changes—pandemics, recessions, lockdowns, and the like, 2021 is upon us. But alongside the pandemic came the CARES Act and the associated Paycheck Protection Program, providing forgivable loans to businesses whose revenue was impacted by the...
Addressing Increasing Challenges in Audits and Internal Controls Reporting
Internal controls reporting represents significant work, significant risk, and a significant challenge for corporate finance professionals. A core portion of the job responsibility for controllers and those throughout the department, many leaders find themselves...
From Knowing Why to Knowing How: A Controller’s Look at Cybersecurity
If it affects the bottom line, it’s finance’s responsibility—and few things impact the bottom line as heavily as a data breach. In the past few years, you may have heard terms like phishing, brute force attacks, and ransomware, but what exactly do these mean? In...
Audit Readiness: Six Ways to Approach Assurance without Breaking the Bank
The audit process is rarely something that you or your team considers fun. No one looks at the thought of an audit—opening your books to people who you don’t know, letting them poke and prod through your documents, and waiting for answers—and thinks to themselves,...
Disrupted or Resilient? Key Takeaways for Supply Chain Leaders
A lot of words were used to define 2020. Unprecedented, burdensome, challenging, and most likely—disruptive. Employees had to adjust to new working environments, businesses had to do more with less, and leaders had to make quick decisions to stay afloat. Supply chains...
Do You Have What It Takes to be the Controller of the Year?
2020 was the controller’s call to greatness. Cash was tight, business processes were made more complicated, and controllers were forced to make tough decisions with limited information. But even in the wake of this seemingly insurmountable wave of challenges, many...
Six Megatrends in 2021 and How to Put Yourself in a Position for Success
February is upon us and prediction season still reigns. This is with good reason—we’re still living in a constant state of change, and 2021 still is throwing us a bit of unpredictability. But there’s reason to believe that readers can get a lot of value from these...
How Controllers Can Get Familiar with the Cloud
For the last decade, the cloud has been presented itself as a viable option for businesses across the nation. Promising cost effectiveness, security, and accessibility from any location, many departments have found themselves benefiting from these solutions. While...
Business Intelligence: How Can It Put You in the Know?
For controllers and other corporate finance professionals, decision support makes up a healthy part of your job. But too often, other things get in the way. Transaction processing still takes up about 40 percent of your week, and other things like compliance stand in...
Sponsor Roundup January 2021
February is upon us. The days are starting to get a bit longer and spring will soon be upon us—even if the groundhog doesn’t think so. Valentine’s day is coming up shortly, which means that you should probably get out and get shopping. With all of the love in the air,...
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