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Finance
News, trends, and insights for finance leaders and professionals.
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Top 10 AI Use Cases for Finance Operations
From spend analysis to faster close cycles, AI is helping finance leaders find new efficiencies, reduce risk, and reallocate resources for strategic growth. Learn the major benefits that your business could gain from AI.
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How to Calculate (and Forecast) Overhead Cost
Overhead costs influence more than just the bottom line—they reveal how well your business runs. With the right structure and insights, finance teams can turn these expenses into a source of control, clarity, and smarter decisions.
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Why Small Businesses Should Switch to Cloud Accounting Software
Cloud accounting software gives small businesses automated, real-time control of their finances. Below we unpack core benefits, must-have software features, and a five-step roadmap to help owners choose the right solution.
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Top 7 Financial Reports for Small Businesses
Strong financial visibility turns complexity into confidence, revealing where your business excels and where it needs attention. Discover the right financial reports to empower your small business to drive sustainable growth.
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How to Calculate (and Forecast) Average Revenue
Forecasting average revenue helps finance leaders understand how value flows through the business. With the right data and tools in place, it becomes a powerful way to spot trends, guide strategy, and drive long-term planning decisions.
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How AI in Accounting Helps Close Your Books
Closing the books is one of the most time-sensitive and resource-intensive responsibilities in finance. But AI can streamline the process, enabling your accounting team to shift their focus from fixing problems to driving strategy.
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Holistic Financial Planning and Integrated FP&A
Finance teams are under pressure to plan faster, more often, and with input from every corner of the business. Holistic financial planning and integrated FP&A make that possible by connecting people, data, and decisions in real time.
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How to Calculate (and Forecast) Accounts Payable
Strong accounts payable forecasts give finance leaders early visibility into upcoming cash requirements and payment timing. With the right approach, AP serves as a practical tool for managing liquidity and strengthening operational control.
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FP&A Beyond Excel: A Modern Approach
Excel built the foundation of FP&A, but it wasn't designed for the speed or scale modern finance demands. Learn why today’s finance leaders are adopting a more connected planning approach that moves with the entire business.
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Data-Driven Decisions: How CFOs Can Use Analytics for Competitive Advantage
More than ever, finance leaders must possess a broader skill set, including the ability to analyze complex data, identify trends, and provide insights that inform critical business decisions and create value.
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Financial Consolidation and Close Process: A Guide
Financial consolidation and close is more than a reporting cycle—it’s a test of how connected, agile, and future-ready finance really is. Modernizing the process is the key to moving faster with confidence.
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FP&A Best Practices for Success
Financial planning and analysis has become more than a reporting function. Learn how today’s FP&A teams play a role in shaping strategy, guiding decisions, and helping companies stay agile in changing environments.
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Finance Digital Transformation: What Does It Even Mean?
Finance teams today face more pressure than ever to deliver speed, accuracy, and insight. Digital transformation in finance is how leading organizations are closing the gap between rising expectations and outdated processes.
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From Efficiency to Ingenuity: How AI Is Reimagining Finance
Discover how AI and automation can transform the finance function by empowering CFOs to drive creativity and efficiency.
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10 Accounting Reports and the Best Templates
The right accounting reports don’t just track the past—they guide the future. From essential templates to scalable systems, finance teams need to build reporting structures that drive smart, data-informed decisions.
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12 Sales Forecasting Methods for Enterprise Business
Forecasting isn’t guesswork—it’s strategy. From historical trends to AI-driven financial forecasting models, learn twelve proven forecasting methods that help enterprise leaders plan with clarity and precision.
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A Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis in FP&A
Cost-benefit analysis remains one of the most effective ways FP&A teams can drive strategy. Here’s how modern finance teams structure cost-benefit analyses, avoid common pitfalls, and apply the framework to real business decisions.
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Top Metrics for FP&A Teams to Track
Strategic finance teams are redefining their role by using data to drive decisions, not just report on them. Finance leaders must understand the most important FP&A metrics to track—and how they help organizations plan smarter and adapt faster.
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The Future of Business Spend Management Looks Like This
Artificial intelligence and automation are transforming business spend management, helping companies make smarter financial decisions and build long-term resilience. Explore how modern business spend management solutions are evolving and the key trends shaping the future of financial strategy.
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Automated Invoice Processing: Everything You Need to Know
Automation has fundamentally changed how invoice processing functions. Find out how automating invoice workflows, from AI capture to ERP integration, enhances efficiency and prepares finance teams for the future.
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Navigating Tariffs: Everything a CFO Needs to Know
Finance leaders must assess risks, evaluate supply chains, and plan for a variety of scenarios to minimize the effects of tariffs while maintaining organizational agility.
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6 Ways CFOs Need to Use AI Right Now
Forward-thinking CFOs are leveraging AI to transform their teams and revolutionize finance. Understand why it’s critical that finance leaders embrace AI to stay competitive in a data-driven world.
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The Ultimate CFO Guide: How to Thrive Amid Economic Volatility
Discover strategies for CFOs to navigate market volatility in 2025. Learn how to embrace financial flexibility and drive sustainable growth.
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Key Financial Services Trends to Watch Right Now
Uncover pivotal trends shaping financial services in 2025. Learn how AI, embedded finance, and personalized wellness strategies are crucial for financial professionals and analysts.
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FP&A Reporting Solutions for Businesses
FP&A reporting has evolved from basic financial tracking to a critical driver of business strategy, helping companies make faster, smarter decisions. Read on to discover the right FP&A reporting solution for your business.
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Workday Podcast | The Data Equation: Solving for Speed, Scale, and Accuracy in Business Transformation
To thrive in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, financial services organizations must harness the power of their data. Join us on Workday Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward for a conversation with Lee Vanderpool, chief accounting officer at General Atlantic. Vanderpool reveals how extracting key insights from data fuels competitive advantage and enables agility in decision-making.
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Business Process Automation: The Complete Guide
Business process automation is transforming how companies streamline operations and enhance decision-making. Explore real-world examples, key benefits, and strategies for successful implementation.
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Why Emotional Intelligence Is Crucial for Today’s CFOs
Emotional intelligence is a necessity for today’s finance leaders. Understand its pivotal role in leadership and strategic business success.
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How AI Is Changing Corporate Finance in 2025
From automating complex processes to delivering real-time strategic insights, AI is empowering corporate finance teams to not only keep up with the pace of change—but to lead it.
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How to Create a Financial Plan for Your Small Business
Small businesses often rely on ad-hoc financial planning even as evidence shows that a sound financial plan is key for growth. Read on to learn the components of a small business financial plan, its benefits, and common challenges.
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The Top 5 Ways to Leverage AI for Financial Analysis
AI is playing an increasingly integral role in finance teams—but many organizations still have low adoption rates. Read on to learn five key ways to use AI for financial analysis to drive greater results.
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6 Scenario Planning Tools for Strategic Business Management
Navigating uncertain times is hard for any business—but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how scenario planning tools can set your business up for success.
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How AI Is Shaping Predictive Analytics in Finance
AI has already led to huge changes in predictive analytics in finance, and the biggest are yet to come. Learn how automation and advanced data analysis are turning finance teams into strategic leaders.
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2025 Financial Planning Trends Every CFO Should Know
2025 is firmly underway—but what will the defining trends be for CFOs? Read on to learn more about the importance of upskilling finance teams, adopting cloud-based solutions, and AI as a key enabler of integrated finance.
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How Workday CFO Zane Rowe Took a Career Detour and Found Success
Sometimes taking a position not normally associated with finance pays outsized dividends. Workday CFO Zane Rowe talks career, customers, AI, and finance in a CFO Thought Leader podcast.
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Workday Podcast | Make Your Move: The Future for FSI with Forrester
In an era of constant change, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. In this installment of the podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk with Oliwia Berdak, financial technology research director at Forrester Research. We caught up with Berdak to talk about Forrester’s predictions for 2025 and beyond
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The Secrets to Outperformance: Strategies for Courageous Growth
Profitable, sustainable growth is the closest thing the business sector has to nirvana—but achieving this state has proved particularly challenging in recent years. An insightful webinar highlights McKinsey & Company research into how companies can move the needle.
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How 4 Factors Power Robust Growth: Leaders Reveal Their Organisational Success Secrets
A solid strategy, an emphasis on customer satisfaction, and having the right people in the right roles are just some of the elements that set companies up to maximise shareholder value. Executives from Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, and Snowflake share their insights.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software for Third Year in a Row
We’re honored to once again be recognised as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software for our completeness of vision and ability to execute.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises
We’re excited to be recognised as a Leader in this report once again. Workday Illuminate reflects our relentless commitment to innovation around how we deliver AI across the Workday platform to empower our customers with increased efficiency and deeper insights, unlocking the ability to seize new opportunities for growth.
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5 Elements CFOs Must Focus on to Fuel the Future of Finance
Finance leaders who devote resources to a few key elements will be well positioned to elevate their roles to that of a futurist, according to a new eBook from Workday.
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Workday Podcast: AI for Financial Services: Beyond the Comfort Zone
Financial services has been using AI for years, but what’s the next step with this transformative technology? Nicole Carrillo, managing director of financial services at Workday, talks with PwC’s Vikas Agarwal about everything AI in this installment of our podcast series, Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward.
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Workday Podcast: The Way Forward for Professional Services Firms
How can professional services firms prepare for whatever comes next? To learn more, we talked with Kyle Wilkinson, strategic industry advisor for professional services at Workday, in this installment of our Industrious podcast series.
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Into the Hotseat: Why More CFOs Are Becoming CEOs
Finance leaders are ready for the top job, but what skills are needed for the transition?
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Workday Rising: Continued Innovations in Finance for 2024 Highlight AI Benefits of a Unified Platform
Workday is introducing enhancements across an array of products focused on hyper-automating processes for financial management, planning, and spend management while improving the speed and accuracy of data insights.
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AI: The Multi-Billion Pound Key to Unlocking UK Productivity
A new report from Workday uncovers large businesses in the UK could save 7.9 billion employee hours per year through the use of ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI). Find out how you can embrace the future of work and consign productivity problems to the past.
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Workday Podcast: AI for Financial Services: Beyond the Comfort Zone
Financial services has been using AI for years, but what’s the next step with this transformative technology? Nicole Carrillo, managing director of financial services at Workday, talks with PwC’s Vikas Agarwal about everything AI in this installment of our podcast series, Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward.
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Is Your ERP Holding You Back? Modern Platforms Emphasize Enterprise Data
Organizations using true cloud platforms are best able to manage their finance, people, and data in a way that provides unprecedented transparency and agility that best prepares them for a future of growth.
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Workday Recognized as a 2024 Customers’ Choice for Financial Planning Software by Gartner® Peer Insights™
Workday has over 280 five-star reviews as of April 30, 2024, in the Gartner Peer Insights “Financial Planning Software Reviews and Ratings” report.
