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On January 1, 2027, California and Colorado will both start taxing SaaS for the first time, and registration, billing, and product classification all take lead time. Anrok’s tax specialists break down what’s changing, who’s in scope, and what to do before the deadline in 30 minutes.

Accounting

Sales & Use Tax

California is Taxing SaaS in 2027—is Your Business Ready?

Planning in one system, closing in another, and reporting in a third means numbers don’t reconcile and finance leaders can’t see what’s really driving the business. Lineos joins CFO Brew to explore how one connected platform, with AI running across the full cycle, gives CFOs the whole picture.

CFOville

Finance Software

The Fragmentation Trap: Completing Finance’s Line of Sight

Questions around governance, upskilling and reskilling, and the balance of human judgment are falling squarely into the lap of finance leaders. Join CFO Brew and leaders on the front lines of this change management to unpack what leadership actually looks like right now.

Talent Management

AI & Automation Training

The Leadership Lesson Nobody Trained You For: Managing People Through the AI Hype Cycle

CFO Brew helps finance pros navigate their roles with insights into risk management, compliance, and strategy through our newsletter, virtual events, and digital guides.

CFO Brew

Courtney Vien

Alex Zank

Vincent Ryan

Accounting and finance skillset needs are evolving rapidly. Finance leaders describe how the changes have altered hiring cycles, talent evaluation, and employee development.

Accounting Hiring Trends

The state of finance hiring & careers

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Strategy

Q3’s big deals grabbed headlines. Who’s ready to follow?

Financing Strategy

The IPO window is open—getting through is the hard part

Oracle NetSuite

AI-Enabled Finance

12 ways to win with AI

Risk Management

Don’t get too brand-loyal, experts advise CFOs. 

Vendor Risk

What Anthropic’s IPO could mean for your Claude bills 

Big legislative change is unlikely near term, but companies with White House ties should be wary.

Regulatory Risk

What the midterm ‘blue tsunami’ means for CFOs

Demi Lawrence

The era of unconditional AI access is over, a chief technology officer says.

AI Governance

Employee AI use is growing; CFOs want financial guardrails

Natasha Piñon

“You should be doing all the hard things now while nobody’s looking,” one expert says.

You’ve postponed your IPO. Now what?

Be careful not to “drift away” from what brought the companies together, Basware CFO Martti Nurminen says.

Post Merger Integration

How CFOs can get better at post-deal integration

How Blumhouse Atomic Monster’s Josh Small drives financial performance while supplying fertile ground for moviemakers.

Strategic Planning

The CFO of horror

Board members (and their CFOs) need to constantly question the metrics they follow, NACD exec says. 

Strategic Risk

How boards can separate signal from noise

Corporate finance director details its strategies to get digital infrastructure projects up and running.

Meta seeks flexibility in data center financing

Compliance

One token over the line

Managing the AI budget as Anthropic goes public.

Luisa Beltran

High redemptions are more common in SPAC IPOs. What CFOs should know about changing strategies.  

Liquidity Risk

Why CFOs should prepare for high SPAC redemptions 

Should an employee’s AI usage get them a raise? 

Compensation Strategy

How CFOs should think about compensation and AI usage, according to rewards expert 

CFO of aerospace and defense technology company talks growth strategy. 

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mapping a strategic flight path through M&A

SEC now allows venues to trade tokenized stocks, but some companies remain wary.

Digital Assets Regulation

Who’s excited about stock tokenization? Not Apple and Nvidia, among others

DFIN pairs purpose-built tech with capital markets expertise and more than 1,275 IPOs filed since 2017. From 

, it helps CFOs get ready before the window opens. 

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S&P Custom White Paper Q2'26

Knowledge work just got an upgrade—don’t lag behind

Finance chiefs who aspire to take the next step should gather experience outside the finance department, an expert recommends.

CFO Evolution

The CFO-to-CEO roadmap

What Anthropic’s IPO could mean for your Claude bills

The Latest Corporate Finance and Accounting News

Why CFOs should prepare for high SPAC redemptions

How CFOs should think about compensation and AI usage, according to rewards expert

Mapping a strategic flight path through M&A

Who’s excited about stock tokenization? Not Apple and Nvidia, among others

The IPO window is open—getting through is the hard part

Editor's Picks

What the midterm ‘blue tsunami’ means for CFOs

Employee AI use is growing; CFOs want financial guardrails

The IPO window is open—getting through is the hard part

Events

California is Taxing SaaS in 2027—is Your Business Ready?

The Fragmentation Trap: Completing Finance’s Line of Sight

The Leadership Lesson Nobody Trained You For: Managing People Through the AI Hype Cycle

Resources

How knowledge workers can make the most of AI-powered data solutions

The state of finance hiring & careers

The CFO-to-CEO roadmap

The state of finance hiring & careers

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