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Fragmented systems make forecasts and financial reporting harder to trust, leaving finance leaders scrambling to defend shaky numbers to the board. Learn how CFOs and RevOps can work in lockstep on stack consolidation and cost control to build predictability that holds up.

Strategy

Financial Forecasting

Financial Control, Forecast Trust, Board Confidence: How a CFO Gets There

Growth shouldn't make decision-making harder. Join CFO Brew and Citrin Cooperman to explore why finance teams struggle with fragmented data as organizations scale, what "decision-grade data" really means, and the steps finance leaders can take to build a stronger foundation for confident decision-making.

CFOville

Finance Data Infrastructure

Finance’s Decision-Grade Data Gap—and What to Do About it

AI can automate a payment—but outdated rails can still slow it down. Join CFO Brew and Paystand to explore how AI and real-time payment infrastructure are converging to help finance teams move beyond legacy systems and unlock new possibilities for payment operations.


FinTech

On the Right Track: From Slow Rails to an Evolved Payments System

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.

Talent Management

Accounting Hiring Trends

The state of finance hiring & careers

Morning Brew Creative Studio

Intuit Enterprise Suite

Intuit Enterprise_Q3_BA

2,000 business leaders reveal the gap between what they need and what they’re delivering

ERP Modernization

From stale data to real-time strategy: The AI-powered ERP shift

Oracle NetSuite

AI-Enabled Finance

12 ways to win with AI

They’ve also become harder to predict.

Cost Management

Budget shock: CFOs contend with rising energy costs

Natasha Piñon

But AI may help CFOs better understand and measure provider performance, Marsh director says.

Healthcare benefit cost increases expected to hit a 20-year high in 2027

Luisa Beltran

And new CFOs are getting younger.

CFO turnover on pace to hit highest rate since 2019, Crist Kolder says

Accounting

Many accounting roles will come to “look like system architect and system design roles,” Numeric CEO says.

Automation Impact

Finance engineer: the next hot job?

Demi Lawrence

A former public accountant is the CFO of the WNBA’s Seattle Storm.

CFO Evolution

Leading finance during women’s sports’ big moment

“There has never been a better time to think about how we drive continued innovation and disruption for job seekers,” ZipRecruiter’s Carmen Chan says. 

Talent Shortage

 ZipRecruiter’s new CFO on the labor market and her first CFO job

CFO Amrita Ahuja says AI has helped the fintech company triple one product’s feature releases and field more retail investor questions.

Profitability Strategy

Block aims for financial ubiquity

How one CFO gained an ally in the battle to contain spending.

Business Partnering

AI magnifies the importance of bonding with tech execs

Compliance

Risk Management

Balance check

AI agents require data connections for better decision-making.

Data Strategy

What exactly does it mean to get rid of data silos?

And help those looking to step up to the CFO seat.

Future CFO Pipeline

How outgoing CFOs can avoid leaving a hole in finance

The exchange wants to give newly public companies five years to set up internal audit functions, instead of one.

Corporate Governance

Auditors oppose NYSE proposal to push back internal-audit timeline

“I think this was born out of our need to reinvent ourselves a little bit,” PEX CEO Toffer Grant says.

Financing Strategy

Inside expense management platform PEX’s $160m capital raise

“The range of potential outcomes that impact cash has started to widen,” Connor Augustyn of West Monroe says.

Cash Optimization

Cash management worries

S&P Global Market Intelligence

S&P Custom White Paper Q2'26

AI & Automation Training

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.

The CFO-to-CEO roadmap

CFOs have moved past whether to adopt AI and now face a harder question: which automation bets are still paying off, which have plateaued, and which are quietly creating more work than they save. Join CFO Brew and RightRev to get a practical framework for auditing your automation portfolio and finding where the real ROI headroom still is.

Automation Risk

Where the Buck Actually Stops: Avoiding the Automation Ceiling

Budget shock: CFOs contend with rising energy costs

The Latest Corporate Finance and Accounting News

What exactly does it mean to get rid of data silos?

How outgoing CFOs can avoid leaving a hole in finance

Auditors oppose NYSE proposal to push back internal-audit timeline

Inside expense management platform PEX’s $160m capital raise

Cash management worries

Editor's Picks

Healthcare benefit cost increases expected to hit a 20-year high in 2027

CFO turnover on pace to hit highest rate since 2019, Crist Kolder says

Finance engineer: the next hot job?

Leading finance during women’s sports’ big moment

Events

Financial Control, Forecast Trust, Board Confidence: How a CFO Gets There

Where the Buck Actually Stops: Avoiding the Automation Ceiling

Finance’s Decision-Grade Data Gap—and What to Do About it

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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