In today's workplace, we often turn to AI, on-demand webinars and online training tools for development. A touch of the fingertip can help you learn more about finance or improve leadership skills. But where do you start? Do you know…
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Ask most finance leaders what their team does and you'll hear the same answer: close the books, produce reports, keep the records clean. The finance role has outgrown that definition. Finance Can Add Value to Decisions Finance departments that operate…
Finance and HR haven't always seen eye to eye. Your role is to keep costs under control; HR's is to advocate for people investments — spending that doesn't always translate into a clean ROI. Now, that old divide is narrowing.…
Work smarter, not harder. It’s a concept that’s often used, seldom realized. Why? “Working smarter” almost always requires more resources. And Finance professionals are the most likely to know: Do we actually have more money, time and resources? You aren't…
Customers are paying slower. Sure, your payment is still coming (fortunately), but the slower payments might leave you stretching working capital and tightening liquidity. Paying Slower than Just Months Ago More than two-thirds of finance professionals say their customers are…
The median time to complete a monthly financial close is six days – and for some organizations, it takes as long as 10, according to the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC). Organizations that take too long to complete their…
Some roles are defined by what you do. Marketing, sales and engineering, for example, are measured by action. Others are defined by what they know. That’s finance. In finance, we own the numbers and get paid to know where money’s…
Meetings are OUT OF CONTROL! The Infinite Workday had made it feel that way. A Microsoft analysis found that 60% of meetings are ad hoc versus scheduled. And meetings after 8 p.m. are up 16%. But meetings are more than a time-sucking…
You think you and your finance team are doing damn good work. The big boss doesn't. Now what? It's quite the predicament for any leader, no matter how far along you are in your career. Negative feedback about what you…
Your Poker Face could be the most underrated tool in the workplace these days. After a long stretch of being told we should bring our authentic selves to work, a Poker Face can be worth 1,000 words — expressing a…
The CFO Agenda 2026 reveals a paradox: while economic volatility has become the baseline, the greatest threat to mid-market firms isn't the market -- it's an internal inability to prioritize, a phenomenon known as priority dilution. Finance teams are being…
As the U.S. economy navigates the fiscal landscape of 2026, a significant financial gap has emerged between labor segments. A recent survey found that roughly 40% of hourly employees say they've seen no benefit from overall economic growth in the…
