Outsourcing Finance and Accounting Functions: When, Why, and How?
By Chris Cook
Outsourcing business processes continues to be a popular strategy for many companies with an eye toward value optimization through cost reduction, increased efficiency, and capability-finetuning. The advent of cloud-based software and SaaS, BPaaS (business process as a service), and PaaS (platform as a service) technology solutions over the past decade…Read More
Read MoreCFO Relationships with CEOs: Developing Critical Connections
By Ron Fior
[The first article in a four-part series about how CFOs can better manage relationships with CEOs, boards, finance teams and third parties.] As all experienced CFOs know, probably their most important professional relationships are with their CEO and with their board of directors. These key members of the leadership team…Read More
Read MoreThe True Cost of Not Hiring a CFO When You Actually Need One
By Bob Finley
When you discover you are the 3rd CFO at a company hired within the last 3 months, you know you’re going to have your hands full. But companies that wait too long to hire their first CFO, often find themselves in just as much trouble. Why is this? I believe…Read More
Read MoreHow to Succeed Where FTX Failed: The Case for Financial Controls
By Bill Leetham, Heather Ogan
As all experienced CFOs know, effective financial controls are essential for any company to succeed over the long term. And from time to time, companies with poor internal controls (business practices, policies, systems, procedures) crash into a brick wall. From what’s been covered in recent media, FTX is a very…Read More
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