by Controllers Council | Feb 18, 2021 | Technology
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...
by Controllers Council | Feb 1, 2021 | Technology
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...
by Controllers Council | Jan 25, 2021 | Audit, Technology
With auditors increasingly worried about reputation damage from taking on a high-risk client, some companies are facing a no-win situation in their future. This according to the Financial Times creates a circular problem—high-risk companies are having trouble finding...
by Controllers Council | Jan 21, 2021 | Accounting, Technology
The ability to bend and not break is the key to resilience. After the past nightmare of a year, companies certainly experienced a bending. Lockdowns, economic uncertainty, work from home shifts, and more have pushed people, processes, and systems to their limits. But...
by Controllers Council | Jan 15, 2021 | Accounting, Corporate Finance, Software, Technology
Controllers have spent a lot of the past year managing constant change. Though we have referred to it as your call to greatness moment, a time in which you’ve done great work finding enough money to keeping the business afloat, it’s stressful nonetheless. But there is...
by Controllers Council | Jan 13, 2021 | Accounting, Software, Technology
What is resilience? Defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, resilience has become a top challenge and priority for businesses in 2020. But 2021 presents a new vision—bouncing forward. But resilience differs from survival, and the past year has...
