Apr 09, 2024
This report covers the evolving role of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in response to changing macro-factors. It delves into the complexities of capital markets, where CFOs must deal with high borrowing costs and uncertainties surrounding interest rate cuts. It examines the impact of geopolitical tensions on businesses, highlighting the increased risks and complexities in protecting cross-border assets and maintaining supply chains. The report also explores the shift in demographics and the resulting need for CFOs to reevaluate product mixes and customer service strategies. Furthermore, the report addresses the role of CFOs in navigating the rapidly advancing technological landscape, often necessitating a closer collaboration with IT and C-suite leaders.
Feb 12, 2024
With the current US office vacancy rate surpassing that of the Great Recession, commercial real estate companies face uncertain prospects. CFO Insights delves into the challenges confronting these CFOs and the continuing repercussions of this downturn in the market.
Jan 24, 2024
This report dives deep into financial crime reform, exploring both its progress and future challenges. Part one assesses how current risk management efforts are tackling new priorities and evolving threats. Part two goes further, offering recommendations and highlighting issues around effectively measuring and achieving outcomes throughout the entire cycle of preventing, detecting, and mitigating financial crime. This comprehensive analysis emphasizes the need to adapt and address not only existing challenges but also emerging risks to keep pace with the ever-evolving landscape of financial crime.
Jan 08, 2024
This year’s survey acknowledged the growing uncertainties in the macro economic and business environment (often referred to as “headwinds”) and their impact on third-party risk management practices. The survey aimed to better understand the impacts of such headwinds in managing supply chains and other third party relationships and capture how organizations are transforming themselves to augment current capabilities that help them adopt innovative or adaptive responses to address these challenges.
Oct 19, 2023
In this edition of CFO Insights, Deloitte examines why fostering trust in supply chains is more important than ever, explore how trustworthiness affects performance and what’s at risk for companies whose supply chains lack this vital quality. What investments should CFOs consider to earn—or rebuild—stakeholder trust? And why are some executives’ levels of trust in their supply chains overstated?
Oct 18, 2023
The report discusses how company transformation initiatives take many forms and can include a variety of efforts related to mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, divestitures, and workforce redesigns. While these project categories have differing goals and time spans, they can affect large swaths of a company’s operations and result in organization-wide change. Regardless of form, the board plays a critical role throughout the life cycle of any transformation initiative, from setting strategy, to monitoring execution, and finally to evaluating results.
Sep 27, 2023
Every IPO is a unique journey. Our IPO SelfAssess tool is here to help you navigate yours. Without planning, the IPO process can be chaotic and erratic. With the proper preparation, your company can create a roadmap for going public that’s efficient and orderly.
Sep 21, 2023
This article discusses the need for organizations to rethink foundational policies, processes, and practices due to lingering distrust around work and workplace monitoring.
Sep 07, 2023
In this edition of CFO Insights, we’ll explore how CFOs can adapt to the current M&A environment—and prepare for the shape of the potential M&A market to come. Where could affordable financing come from? What geographies will likely be most appealing—and why? How might deal structure change? And what can companies do to position themselves for success better when dealmaking ramps up?
Sep 01, 2023
Deloitte Private recently asked 100 private company C-suite executives about their outlook and strategies for navigating financial risks and opportunities. Findings revealed four key takeaways pertaining to investment priorities, as well as the impact inflation, rising interest rates, and talent shortages have on business valuation.
Aug 10, 2023
In this edition of CFO Insights, we’ll help guide CFOs and treasurers in increasing the function’s efficiency and resiliency by pinpointing transparency gaps, identifying new risk exposures, and considering future needs. How disciplined is the company’s approach to managing counterparties, such as banks? How adequate are its controls around mitigating cyber risk and fraud? And what working capital initiatives should the company undertake to offset rising costs driven by inflation, interest rate increases, and geopolitical risk?
Aug 08, 2023
This report was designed as a pragmatic guide to the technologies that are likely to disrupt organizations over the next few years. These technologies could transform self-service, finance cycles, and enterprise resource planning (ERP), but their impact depends on individual organizations and leaders. The guide helps organizations navigate these changes, offering insights on what to be aware of, potential pitfalls, and where to concentrate efforts, which may differ from conventional expectations.
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