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News, trends, and insights for finance leaders and professionals.
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Top 10 Financial Management Skills for CFOs
In a business world fueled by new technology and constant change, the finance function—and the CFOs who lead it—must be adaptable to succeed. Learn 10 key financial management skills to stay ahead.
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Vendor Management: Best Practices You Need to Know
Vendors have a direct impact on daily business performance and risk exposure. Managing those relationships with discipline and structure strengthens performance and creates a more resilient third-party network.
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How to Conduct a Risk Assessment
Every business faces risks and uncertainty. With a structured risk assessment framework in place, your teams can navigate change and disruption with speed and resilience.
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The Path to CFO: Your Guide to Success
The CFO role is more dynamic than ever. Success comes from building a career that blends breadth and expertise while staying true to the unique strengths and skills you can offer.
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Choosing the Best Accounting Software for Small Businesses
Eight in ten small business leaders are investing in cloud-based accounting software. Choosing the right platform can be the difference between small improvements and real transformation.
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How to Manage Cash Flow: 8 Best Practices
More than 8 in 10 small businesses fail because of cash flow problems. To balance growth with financial stability, SMBs need smart systems and technology in place to make cash flow management continuous and effective.
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Sales vs. Demand Forecasting: What’s the Difference?
Modern forecasting demands a holistic approach and the right technology to support it. Learn how companies are connecting sales and demand forecasting with AI platforms to power predictive insight.
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10 Most Useful Excel Functions for Financial Analysis
Excel is still the most-used tool in the FP&A toolkit. Learn the advanced Excel functions finance professionals use for smart analysis, and why integrating Excel with financial management software is best.
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Workday Recognized as a Leader in Two Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports, Redefining Next-Generation ERP
We believe Workday’s recognition as a Leader in two Gartner Magic Quadrant reports and the only Customers’ Choice for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises validates its position as the next-generation, intelligent system of action that helps finance teams navigate talent shortages and business complexity.
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The Ultimate Guide to ERP Implementation
ERP systems are one of the most critical technology investments companies make, yet implementation challenges often derail progress. A well-planned and executed ERP deployment can be the difference between failure and success.
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FP&A vs. Financial Analyst: Key Differences to Know
Financial analysts and FP&A professionals play complementary but distinct roles in maintaining a company’s financial health. Learn how the two differ in focus, responsibilities, career trajectory, and business impact.
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How to Get Into FP&A: A Career Guide
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) transforms financial data into strategic insights. Breaking into FP&A requires a clear guide—from mastering core skills to gaining hands-on experience and mapping your path from analyst to leadership.
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Right to Information 2026: How Europe Is Rewriting Pay Rules
From June 2026, Europe’s right to information will transform pay transparency. Employers must explain salaries, employees gain leverage, and credibility becomes the real test.
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Keeping Pace with Compliance: A Smarter Way for MSEs to Stay Ahead of Regulations
Learn how MSEs can stay ahead of EU regulations with automated audits, built-in controls, and smarter, streamlined compliance.
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FP&A vs. Accounting: Key Differences Explained
Every organization depends on accurate financial record-keeping and forward-looking analysis to steer its financial course. Explore how accounting and FP&A work together to fuel smarter decisions.
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How to Set Up Payroll Software for Your Small Business
Payroll software empowers SMBs to run with greater accuracy, compliance, and confidence. Learn how to choose the right system, implement it smoothly, and unify payroll with your HR system.
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10 Ways to Speed Up ROI on Your AI Investments
Here are a few actionable ways to help ensuring your organization’s success in an AI-driven business environment
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Essential Features for Small Business Invoicing Software
Invoicing isn't just about getting paid—it's how small businesses stay cash-flow positive and client-ready. This guide breaks down the features, pricing models, and buying questions that matter when choosing a solution.
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Top 7 Types of Financial Forecasting Models
Financial forecasting has become a necessity in today’s fast-changing markets. With the right models in place for each scenario, finance teams can anticipate change, guide smarter planning, and drive stronger outcomes
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How to Calculate Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable is more than back-office accounting—it’s a key indicator of how well your finance team operates and your overall cash flow health. Learn how to adopt the right methods, processes, and technology to make it both scalable and precise.
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McLaren Racing’s High-Performance Partnership for the Fast Lane
Zak Brown and Laura Bowden drive McLaren Racing's success through a collaborative leadership focused on innovation, strategic agility, and a "Forever Forward" vision. Their partnership, especially in navigating the Formula 1 cost cap with advanced financial tools, ensures McLaren's sustained pursuit of excellence both on and off the track.
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How to Calculate Net Revenue Retention
Tracking multiple revenue metrics across siloed reports obscures true growth signals. Net revenue retention consolidates expansions, downgrades, renewals, and churn into a single percentage, making it clear how well your customer base is propelling revenue forward.
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Funding Growth with Confidence: How To Build Trust with Real-Time Financial Visibility
Discover how Midsize Enterprises (MSE) can earn lender trust and unlock capital by connecting financial data.
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How to Choose the Best Payroll Software for Small Businesses
Choosing payroll software is one of the most important infrastructure decisions a small business can make. For business leaders, it’s critical to know which features, capabilities, and support systems to look for as you evaluate your options.
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Achieving Data Clarity: Why MSEs Need a Unified View to Move Faster
Find out how MSEs can turn fragmented systems into real-time insight with a unified ERP that drives faster, smarter, data-informed decisions.
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The 5 Things Every CFO Must Know About AI
Finance leaders must understand these key aspects of AI—from foundational capabilities and strategic value to data, risk, and talent—to drive growth and competitive advantage in an AI-driven world.
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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.
