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The evolution of information technology has shaped the working lives of senior financial executives, changing what it means to be a CFO. When it is managed well, technology connects finance [...]

When you ask CFOs to tell you about their commercial banking relationships, the responses cover the spectrum from love (strategic partner) to hate (active antagonist). And just as there is [...]

Ask a group of CFOs how their companies selected their commercial banks, and you're likely to hear a chorus of responses along the lines of 'It was complicated.' That's why [...]

CFOs are collaborating with other functional areas in their companies as their role expands enterprise-wide. Increasingly, senior executives within the finance function are contributing data, analysis, strategy, and insights that [...]

* Governing a defined benefit (DB) pension plan and its investment strategy has always been challenging. Over the past decade it's also become increasingly complex, not to mention costly, spurring [...]

For a growing company, pursuing and achieving the goal of international expansion can be fraught with challenges--especially for firms unaccustomed to navigating the legal, regulatory, and cultural terrain of an [...]

Recurring revenue business models, also known as subscription or usage-based models, are opening up new opportunities across many industries--even in sectors where they haven't traditionally. For example, the subscription model [...]

If there's a phrase to describe the marching orders of finance departments, it's 'adapt as fast as you can.' Not only are finance chiefs and their teams trying to accomplish [...]

CFOs understand the importance of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) solutions that allow their finance teams to develop budgets and forecasts quickly and accurately. They need confidence in their numbers [...]

The article delves into the rationale behind using fertilizers in commercial crop production, likening the process to medical diagnosis and treatment. Topics include soil analysis emphasizing the 4R-Nutrient-Stewardship framework, and crafting a fertiliser plan based on soil chemistry, crop type, and nutrient uptake mechanisms.

As organizations face an onslaught of fast-moving, high-impact technological advances--artificial intelligence and blockchain, to name two--it falls to finance leaders to lay the groundwork for their companies' transformations to fully [...]

Among the many effects on corporate finance from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a greater motivation to address problems with defined benefit (DB) employee pension plans. Thanks also [...]

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act may be getting a lukewarm reception from consumers, but CFOs are clearly over the moon about the lower corporate income tax rate and other [...]

Happy days are here again? For U.S. finance chiefs, it seems, they are. At least that's the prevailing mood since Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the biggest [...]

Like it or not, CFOs frequently find themselves cast in the role of pension managers, dealing with a host of economic, regulatory, and environmental factors outside of their control. Faced [...]

Investors, consumers, regulatory bodies, and the media are putting heavy pressure on boards of directors. They are being held accountable for a whole range of strategic missteps, risk management errors, [...]

The U.S. labor market continued to tighten, causing companies to pass up valuable investment projects, according to the results of the third-quarter Duke University/ CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey. [...]

For several decades, corporate America had been looking for ways to shed the increasing costs and performance risk of sponsoring traditional, defined-benefit (DB) pension plans. Freezing plans by halting the [...]

Middle-market companies are struggling to attract and retain technology employees--and looking to managed IT services providers and the cloud for help in meeting the talent shortfall. A recent CFO Research [...]

Uncertainty about U.S. regulatory and trade policies is prompting some companies to put business expansion plans on hold, according to the second-quarter Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook survey. More [...]

A CFO who can accurately report on the financial position of his or her organization with great detail and insight--and on a timely basis--is empowered both immediately and in the [...]

Check the news. The consequences of a data breach can be devastating to a company's finances and its brand reputation. And there's no single way to block virtual intruders, whose [...]

Senior finance executives in the United States are concerned that President Trump's off-the-cuff Twitter posts and public comments may affect business, specifically by causing market fluctuations and uncertainty. Finance chiefs [...]

More than a third of U.S. CFOs say political uncertainty will slow their spending plans beyond the presidential election, according to the latest Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook survey of [...]

DASHBOARD APPLICATIONS are proliferating as a key management tool, bringing realtime operational performance monitoring to executives' desktops. Evolving from balanced scorecard activities, these cost-effective technologies compare an organization's actual performance--often [...]

IAN IS THE DIRECTOR OF AUDIT for NewMedTech (NMT) Inc., a privately held biotechnology firm with revenues around US$200 million. Based in upstate New York, NMT also has three legal [...]

HEADQUARTERED IN THE MIDwest, Old Retail Co. does business in 29 states, has about 18,500 employees, and reported sales revenues of $850 million last year. To support its retail efforts, [...]

Selections of favorite movie sex scenes from the web site Nerve.com are described. They include the films 'A Room with a View', 'Microcosmos', 'The Ice Storm', 'The Hunger', and 'Skin Deep'.

Finance executives' efforts to manage benefits risks and costs, while trying to enhance benefits outcomes, will be critical to their companies' ability to succeed in the future. This is the [...]

CFOs around the world increasingly recognize that the standards for their finance functions' responsiveness and credibility are being raised, and that yesterday's processes and solutions will no longer be able [...]

Political uncertainty is altering the spending plans of U.S. companies, according to the latest Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook survey. Worried by the upcoming presidential election and continuing Washington [...]

* Excellence in post-sales service can be a boon to a company's attempts to bolster the bottom line and support business growth. These are key findings of a recent CFO [...]

Around the world, senior finance executives believe that their companies need to find more skilled or specialized workers in order to meet business growth targets. Most are focusing more on [...]

* Tomorrow's business world will look different from today's. And it logically follows that tomorrow's finance teams will look different as well. Professionals joining the world of finance can look [...]

A recent report from CFO Research documents the value that faster, more accurate cash reporting and forecasting has for growth ambitions. Cash management and forecasting are more difficult than ever, [...]

The business environment, infused with uncertainty, has muted the growth of business confidence, according to the results of the Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook survey for the fourth quarter [...]

For many strategic business planners, corporate real estate (CRE) is little more than an afterthought. But that may be beginning to change, judging from a recent survey of senior finance [...]

Most senior finance executives--76%--believe that meeting business performance targets is going to become more challenging over the next two years, according to a recent CFO Research survey on performance management [...]

Senior finance executives are increasingly treating employee benefits as an opportunity for competitive advantage, as they seek to balance their core fiscal-responsibility mandate with the need to support their companies' [...]

[The CFO] 'Before we begin our monthly call, I have a question for you all. Who the heck is 'iPhone5' and how did he download our pro forma financials last [...]

There are persistent disparities in stomach cancer mortality among racial–ethnic groups in the USA, but the extent to which these patterns vary geographically is not well understood. This analysis estimated age-standardised mortality for five racial–ethnic groups, in 3110 USA counties over 20 years, to describe spatial-temporal variations in stomach cancer mortality and disparities between racial–ethnic groups.

Large disparities in mortality exist across racial–ethnic groups and by location in the USA, but the extent to which racial–ethnic disparities vary by location, or how these patterns vary by cause of death, is not well understood. We aimed to estimate age-standardised mortality by racial–ethnic group, county, and cause of death and describe the intersection between racial–ethnic and place-based disparities in mortality in the USA, comparing patterns across health conditions.