If you consider what sets companies like eBay, Alibaba, Netflix, Google, Starbucks, Apple, Cisco and Dell apart from other companies, their ability to continuously innovate and create high growth will probably come high on your list. So should the fact they’ve all successfully transitioned from start up to scale up status without losing their ability […]
The idea of hiring even a part-time CFO may seem to some SMEs a bit over the top—like paying Quentin Tarantino to make a 90-second home page video or booking the National Stadium for the company’s five-a-side friendly football match. But for companies whose ambition is to get into and survive the coveted scale-up phase, […]
You might think a Chief Finance Officer’s role is confined to traditional finance activities, but todays CFO can do so much more than count beans. In the past, a Chief Finance Officer’s responsibilities might have been confined to high-level accounting such as providing timely financial statements and monthly management reports, managing investments and expenses, monitoring […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already transforming the way in which financial service companies are doing business. More and more of them are using AI to process information on their customers, cut costs, save time, monitor behaviour patterns, assess credit quality, automate client interactions, analyse markets, assess data quality and detect fraud. A pwc Digital IQ […]
You shouldn’t be surprised to discover that Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Hugh Jackman, Gary Oldman among many other Oscar-winning actors and actresses bear a grudge against Chief Financial Officers. It’s easy to understand why. For although the likes of Streep and Oldman have achieved fame, fortune and critical acclaim, they can usually only inhabit […]
If you’re looking for a quick way to cut costs, boost efficiency and improve productivity then consider outsourcing one or more of your business’ support processes. Outsourcing has many benefits and can give you a greater competitive edge in your market. It allows you to tap into a large international talent pool and benefit from […]
Imagine this: the co-founder of a multi-million-dollar HR management software company with almost 500 employees likes to micromanage to the point he, and not the HR department, has sole approval over employee benefits. Likewise, when any of those hundreds of employees requests time off for holidays, it’s he and not the HR department that says […]
It’s easy to get despondent about your future job security and finances these days with doomsday predictions of the impact artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, machine-learning, robotics and nanotechnology will have on the world of work. Back in 2013, two Oxford University researchers sounded the alarm for the future of work by predicting that 47% […]
Santa Claus, now in his 1,747th year, reveals for the first time how his part-time Chief Financial Officer helped Christmas Inc. claw back from near-disaster. “Last year we were hit by so many problems. Money problems. Health and safety issues. Capital funding problems. Bad PR. The lot. Fake News “Someone posted a story on Facebook […]
When your company is facing yet another cash flow crisis caused by late paying customers, it can be hard to believe there might be a solution. But there are steps you can take to overcome the problems delinquent payments cause and to avoid them happening again. Late payments are something that hundreds of thousands of […]
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