Finance

Finance Technology Innovation

Global Study: Retailers Excel at Organizational Agility

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Finance

Hospitality Industry Finance Leader Discusses Managing Risk and Agility During the Pandemic

Customers and Community Finance

How European Finance Leaders Are Preparing for a Post-Pandemic World

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Finance

Stout Drives Growth Through Digitization

Workday Staff Writers

Procurement Finance

4 Pillars of an Effective Supplier Management Program

Danyelle Guernsey

Customers and Community Finance

Drury Hotels Launches Holistic Digital Transformation

Workday Staff Writers

Workday Podcast: McKinsey Expert on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Reporting

Finance Human Resources

What Is an ERP System, and Why Workday Is Different

Jillian Ogawa

Finance Planning

How Continuous Recalibration Helps Your Business Avoid the Acceleration Gap

Patricia Harris

Customers and Community Finance

Coleman Worldwide Moving Enables Better Decision Making

Workday Staff Writers

Finance Human Resources

Workday Podcast: CFOs and CHROs Expect Growth Through Adversity

Bruno J. Navarro

Bank of America CEO Highlights the Competitive Advantages of ESG Principles

Bruno J. Navarro

Customers and Community Finance

Retail & Hospitality Industry Summit: Moving Ahead With Agility and Analytics

Jeremiah Barba

Workday Podcast: How CSA Group Is Enabling Finance Digital Acceleration

Finance Planning

The Age of Agility Demands You Lose That Outdated ERP System

How Financial Services Industry CFOs Can Better Adapt to Change

Why Both Technology and Soft Skills Are Now Crucial for CFOs

Bruno J. Navarro

Finance Planning

CFOs Expect Robust Growth Over the Next Year, Look to Meet Challenges

Bruno J. Navarro

Why CFOs Should Expect More than Speed From Their Cloud Provider

Workday Staff Writers

Finance Planning

How Scenario Planning Future-Proofs Finance

Bruno J. Navarro

Finance Planning

Where CFOs Are Prioritizing Resources to Enable a Frictionless Finance Future

Bruno J. Navarro

Finance Planning

Global Study: Finance Leaders Reveal Key Goals and Challenges for Driving Digital Acceleration

Workday Staff Writers

Customers and Community Finance

Communications, Media, and Technology Summit: Why Innovation Is the Only Way Forward

Jeremiah Barba

Looking Forward: How CFOs Can Leverage Data Analytics to Guide Their Companies

Bruno J. Navarro

Finance Planning

Top CFOs Say This Is Their Biggest Pain Point

Workday Staff Writers

Procurement Finance

Why Partnering With Diverse Suppliers Is a Win-Win for the Enterprise

Finance Planning

Harvard Study: Finance Faces Long Road to Data and Analytics Maturity

Barbara Larson

Workday Podcast: A Tech CFO Looks to the Future

Jeremiah Barba

Looking Forward: 8 Trends Impacting the Office of the CFO

Workday Staff Writers

Finance Planning

Workday Named a 2021 Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large, and Global Enterprises for Fifth Year in a Row

Terrance Wampler

It’s All in the Details: How Data-Rich Subledgers Fuel Financial Agility

Angela Borth

Finance Human Resources

3 Myths About Payroll Service Bureaus and Efficiency

Jillian Ogawa

Finance Planning

How to Recalibrate and Plan for a New Normal in Healthcare

Analytics and Insights Finance

5 Steps to Becoming a Decision-Ready Organization

A CFO's Guide to Accelerating Digital Initiatives

Tech, Media, and Entertainment: Transformation in Real Time

Jeremiah Barba

Finance Planning

Workday Podcast: How Retail CFOs Are Innovating in Disruptive Times

Jeremiah Barba

Procurement Finance

The Met Illustrates the Power of Partnerships

Ghadeer Redler

Customers and Community Finance

Equiniti and Netflix: Finance Transformation in the Age of Disruption

Workday Staff Writers

Q&A: Accelerating Corporate Finance Transformation

Workday Staff Writers

Journalist Fareed Zakaria on How the Pandemic Will Shape the Future

Q&A: Finance Automation and the Road to Digital Transformation

How Finance Leaders Can Inspire a Culture of Trust and Integrity

Analytics and Insights Finance

How Banks and Insurers Can Turn Quantities of Data Into Quality Insights

Finance Planning

3 Ways Finance Can Help Their Companies Navigate 2021

Robynne Sisco

Workday Podcast: How Finance-as-a-Service Helps CFOs Accelerate Transformation of the Finance Function

Jillian Ogawa

Finance Planning

How Finance Must Rethink Skills to Thrive in the Digital Era

Customers and Community Finance

The Power of Digital Acceleration in a Changing World

Ellen Murphy

Analytics and Insights Finance

How Finance Can Accelerate Digital Transformation—Even in Complex ERP Environments

Barbara Larson

Finance Planning

xP&A: All You Need To Know About Extended Planning & Analysis

Workday Staff Writers

Finance

According to our latest global study, retail organizations are ahead of other sectors in understanding the importance of digital revenue and, more importantly, having the agility to act quickly on opportunities.

Neil Gribben, vice president of accounting and control at hospitality and leisure company Belmond, met with Workday’s Tim Wakeford to discuss how finance has pushed forward with digital acceleration during the pandemic.

Jon Leins, finance and accounting director at global investment bank and advisory firm Stout, explains why his team decided to replace more than 10 legacy systems with Workday in one big-bang deployment—and how its new enterprise management cloud is delivering game-changing efficiencies.

Building out a supplier relationship management (SRM) program doesn’t have to be intimidating. Explore the four pillars of a successful SRM program and best practices for driving supplier performance.

Companies must think beyond a “lift and shift” of their current ERP system to the cloud. Instead, they must uplift and re-shift their systems and processes to align with achieving business goals in the digital age. That’s why Workday, as an enterprise management cloud solution, is different.

The pace of business is even faster now as companies plan for life after COVID-19. What's trending today becomes tomorrow’s disruption—and tomorrow’s disruption will eventually define a new way of working.

Tom Stewart, chief knowledge officer at AchieveNEXT, discusses key insights from the global “2021 CFO-CHRO Sentiment Study,” including what’s top of mind for finance and people leaders in the coming year.

Although environmental, social, and governance issues aren’t simple, Brian Moynihan advised CFOs in a recent Fortune event to approach ESG metrics in a way that is straightforward, calculable, and deliverable.

Business leaders in the retail and hospitality industries at a recent Workday summit talk about how they’re finding a path forward that looks less like surviving and more like thriving.

The challenge for many CFOs is that the technologies and processes they currently have in place for planning may actually hinder their efforts to achieve agility.

Shift happens—again and again. Yet to succeed in an ever-changing business environment, financial services industry CFOs must drive better decision making and flexibility by uniting operational and financial data in an enterprise management cloud.

The evolving role of the CFO means that rising finance leaders must now be fluent in technology and human relationships. Panelists at a Fortune virtual conversation shared their unique approaches to leadership.

Finance leaders say they’re bullish on their companies, and want to improve environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting and diversity and inclusion efforts, according to PwC’s latest Pulse Survey.

Understanding a company’s key variables and how to react to different outcomes can help leaders respond to future challenges—and succeed in turbulent times.

A Workday global survey reveals how finance leaders are looking to invest in digital transformation to address growing data challenges and emerging topics.

Business leaders in the communications, media, and technology industries at a recent Workday summit discussed what matters most as they find new ways to reach their customers.

A recent Deloitte report finds high quality data is a top priority for a vast majority of business leaders, but deploying the right solutions is its own challenge. A recent webinar examines real-world examples of what digital transformation can achieve.

Finance leaders from a variety of industries came together at a recent Fortune CFO Collaborative event to talk about the critical role of the CFO in a post-pandemic world. Read more for the highlights.

Procurement teams have an opportunity to meaningfully contribute to their companies’ diversity and inclusion goals by consciously partnering with diverse businesses, defined as any company that is at least 51% owned by persons identifying with underrepresented groups.

This article looks at a global survey of 162 finance managers and senior executives that reveals significant conflicts between finance leaders’ aspirations and how they do their day-to-day work.

The disruption of the pandemic affects tech, media, and entertainment companies in many different ways, and the office of the CFO is adapting through it all. On this episode, our guest is Liz Brittain, CFO of cybersecurity company HackerOne.

Rakesh Duggal, senior manager at Deloitte, connected with Annette Melatti, Workday’s senior director, solution marketing for the office of the CFO, to explore the trends shaping the future of finance and to discuss how finance leaders can incorporate them into their everyday work.

Accounting subledgers at financial services companies are data-rich resources hiding in plain sight, waiting to be tapped for insights. This article, the second in a two-part series, explores why combining operational and finance data is essential for business insights.

To empower your business’s payroll teams to quickly adapt to change, outsourcing payroll services may not be the answer. We look at three myths that prevent payroll from adapting to change — and the realities around what’s needed for efficiency and agility.

The pandemic brought a large dose of uncertainty. But as many in the healthcare industry were still reacting to the initial blow, Vera Whole Health quickly pivoted to deliver its advanced primary care model with increased telehealth services.

Finance is being asked to provide more frequent guidance than ever before and must shift its focus from delivery of core financial processes to providing guidance and strategic partnership across the enterprise—a shift made possible by accelerating digital initiatives and the cloud.

How can a business accelerate its move to digital finance in a post-pandemic world? Here are four areas that are driving value, and should be on every finance leader’s radar in 2021 and beyond.

The tech, media, and entertainment industries are changing by the minute with some changes sparked by the pandemic and others accelerated by it. Let’s take a look at the transformation and what it means for the future of these industries.

The retail industry has gone through decades worth of changes since the start of the global pandemic, and retail CFOs are moving fast to ensure their companies are adapting and thriving. Experts from KPMG and Workday talk about this and more on the Workday Podcast.

The COVID-19 pandemic hit right when The Metropolitan Museum of Art was in the midst of digitally transforming its procurement business. Two procurement leaders share their experience and lessons learned through this unexpected journey.

Finance leaders from Equiniti and Netflix share how they pivoted to virtually operating their company’s financials when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and how they’re better preparing for future disruption.

Automation is becoming increasingly important to the finance function in our rapidly changing world. In this interview with Tom Willman, principal and global practice leader at The Hackett Group, we look at the impact of automation and machine learning on finance.

More than ever before, employees and customers want to associate with businesses they can trust. Here’s how CFOs and their teams can have a pivotal role in building greater trust in 2021 and beyond.

Banks and insurers need to know how unprecedented disruption impacts customer behavior, and consequently, the business. This article, the first in a two-part series, explores why combining operational and finance data is essential for business insights.

We’ve entered a new year with a lot of uncertainty still ahead. Workday President and CFO Robynne Sisco shares how finance leaders can help the broader business navigate uncharted waters.

Does the on-demand model work for the finance function? Matt Schwenderman, principal global Workday finance lead at Deloitte, and Scott Van Valkenburgh, global alliances and channels lead at Genpact, share how Finance-as-a-Service helps CFOs accelerate digital finance transformation.

The post-pandemic world, when it arrives, will transform many aspects of business as usual. As a result, CEOs will turn to finance leaders who not only have accounting experience, but also wider operational backgrounds and a broader mix of business experience.

Digital transformation comes in different forms, and for many organizations, “rip and replace” isn’t an option. Barbara Larson explains how Workday’s enterprise finance solution empowers finance teams to deliver business insights and strategic planning within multi-system environments.

Gartner gave it a name, but the concept of Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) is nothing new. Learn more about xP&A and why it’s more important than ever for your enterprise.