Real Estate Rethink: How CFOs Can Tackle the Company's Footprint Problem
Virtual engagement with customers and employees increased dramatically during the pandemic. And that change has stuck, to the surprise of some company executives.
It's not only employees who prefer a remote or hybrid setup. Companie...
Why a Looming Recession Is No Reason to Cut Training Budgets
The layoffs just keep stacking up, raising fears that we're on the brink of a recession. Google-parent Alphabet let 12,000 people go, mere days after Microsoft and Amazon announced that they were slashing 10,000 and 18,000 jobs, respectively. T...
How CFOs Can Better Integrate Supply Chain Operations
Every chief financial officer worth their salt should be taking charge of supply chain integration as a core responsibility. Pushing change from the top helps break down silos to ensure supply chain resilience becomes part of a company's DNA. <...
The Audit Wars Are About to Begin
Employee turnover is almost always costly for organizations, but it's rare that hiring new staff can hurt clients and raise their costs. The exception? The Internal Revenue Service.
The agency, which lost thousands of employees to...
Inflation Reduction Act Burdens Small and Midsize Businesses
The big corporate tax increase from Washington may be aimed at giants such as Amazon and Bank of America, but the regulatory burden will also fall significantly on many smaller companies with overseas operations.
Businesses that have...
Don't Let Failed Digital Transformations Prevent Future Attempts
Companies that adopt digital-first systems across operations, sales, marketing, and more can realize significant cost savings - cutting down on labor needs, leveraging data and business intelligence tools, and even reducing time to market. But,...
CFOs Must Face Tech Stack Inflation by Balancing Priorities
It's been a good run. Business consumers of software have enjoyed stable or even falling prices amid an explosion in productivity and choice. Plentiful capital, intense competition, and a strong pace of innovation over two decades deterred tech...
Three CFO Priorities for An Unstable Time
In the best, most stable of times, the job of forecasting and responding to demand is difficult at best. These are not the most stable of times.
In a 30-year career, I've never seen a more uncertain, unstable economic situation than...
Budgeting for Cybersecurity Requires a New Approach
When a country sends its army to war, it does so based on a plan to win, not on fitting a predetermined budget.
But when it comes to the virtual cybersecurity battlefield, CFOs too often take the opposite approach, leaving their compa...
CFOs: Prepare for Changes in Global Tax Rules
You hear it everywhere: U.S. corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes. They've hollowed out domestic industry by moving to cheaper, more tax-friendly countries. Whether or not you believe this narrative, it's built on criticism that...
The Strategic Role of the CFO in M&A
Whenever a market enters a frenzied buying period, good deals get harder to find and mistakes more likely. That's what we see right now in M&A as the flood of easy money and fears of tax hikes under the Biden administration combine to fuel...
Driving Engagement in a Remote Work World
Well, we're living it, again and again, and again. Still stuck at home and still working from home.
And even as more of us receive vaccinations, a return to life in the office as we used to know it is doubtful. A remote and socially...
Biden's Trade Policy Stresses Investment in U.S. Jobs
The Biden administration may be less than a month old, but its early words and actions have provided clear signs of where trade policy is headed and what that means for businesses.
Washington politics and policy are lining up to creat...