The Changing Role of the CFO and Controller

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  5 Tips to Create Energy in Virtual Presentations

  Working remotely for nearly a year has taught us many things about virtual interactions. Perhaps one of the most universal truths is that giving virtual presentations can be a challenge. While stillness and calm are great skills for meditation, they don’t win the hearts and minds of your audience on a virtual platform.
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  Finance Team: Reimagine Your Checklists

  Finance teams manage multiple projects, processes, and workstreams. Too often we trust ourselves to remember what’s important, but we are fallible humans. We make mistakes. Things fall through the cracks. To help us manage, consider the lowly checklist.
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  Why Use a Business Intelligence System? To Make the Best Decisions Every Time

  In a competitive landscape where agility, flexibility, and quick decision-making are critical to a CFO and his or her business, timely and accurate data analysis is more important than ever. In other words, business intelligence is no longer negotiable: it’s a must-have for ongoing success.
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  ACH Processing Can Be Painful, But It Doesn’t Need to Be

  Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments for accounts payable require an exhausting reconciliation process if not done directly through a bank. In fact, many accounts payable and accounts receivable departments prefer paper checks. But ACH isn’t the problem. The problem is how ACH is implemented by business-to-business payment providers.
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  Accounts Payable Digital Transformation Accelerates Under COVID-19

  The coronavirus pandemic significantly disrupted work, especially where processes had yet to be digitized. Take accounts payable departments for instance. Those who leaned on short-term solutions, hoping the storm would quickly pass, now realize the importance of technology in enabling a smoother workflow. Those departments that implemented invoice and payment automation prior to the crisis found greater successes transitioning to remote work. Those who hadn’t are now following suit.
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• Building a Core Competency in Mergers and Acquisitions

• Comfort with the Uncomfortable: CFO Leadership

• Corporate CPAs: A Beacon of Ethical Behavior

• Becoming a Creative CPA with the WonderRigor Paradigm

• Lean Accounting Brings Focus and Direction to Company Performance

• Pandemic and PPP Loan Efforts Bring New Perspective

• Forecasting Cash Flow Vital to Surviving the Storm

The Evolution of Blockchain: Where It’s at and Where It’s Heading

Soft Skills Lead the Way in the Controller Evolution

PPP Loan Repayment: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait?

IRS Audit Survival Tips

Middle-Market M&A Suffers Amidst the Coronavirus New Normal