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CFO Insights

CFO Insights is a biweekly thought leadership series dedicated to addressing the issues that Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and finance executives face today. CFO Insights provides an easily digestible and regular stream of perspectives on the challenges CFOs are confronted with.

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CFO Insights — Leaving a legacy — for your company, your team, and yourself

Feb 21, 2019

This issue examine what CFOs hope to leave behind once their tenures end and offer some practical advice to help guide finance leaders as they build their legacies.

CFO Insights — Bridging the gap between the finance team you have — and the one you need

Jan 24, 2019

This issue discusses why acquiring and developing those skilled employees should be embedded in an overall business strategy and identify some key questions to help guide finance leaders as they build their workforces of the future.

CFO Insights — Special edition: Results from 2018 Q4 "CFO Signals" survey

Jan 10, 2019

Each quarter, CFO Signals tracks the thinking and actions of CFOs representing many of North America’s largest and most influential companies. This is the fourth quarter report for 2018.

CFO Insights — The Detonate imperative: Why you should blow up your best practices

Dec 13, 2018

This issue outlines four guiding principles for adopting a new mindset to break old habits, and offers guidance as to how finance can be better calibrated to an environment where risk is difficult to measure and manage.

CFO Insights — What's keeping CFOs up at night in 2018?

Nov 01, 2018

This issue discusses concerns growth concerns CFO have, along with seven others, drawn from the resources of Deloitte’s U.S. CFO Program, which include our Next Generation CFO Academies, CFO Transition Lab™ sessions, CFO Forums, CFO Vision™ conferences, and the quarterly CFO Signals survey.

CFO Insights — Extended enterprise risk: Managing exposure beyond the organization

Oct 18, 2018

This issue describes three important areas of innovation — emerging technologies, cooperative relationships, and organization and governance models — that leading companies are pursuing to reset the front line of defense.

CFO Insights — Chapter II: Preparing for life after being CFO

Oct 04, 2018

This issue looks at how some CFOs have made the move into retirement, weighed their options, and found gratification outside of the C-suite.

CFO Insights — Special edition: Results from 2018 Q3 "CFO Signals" survey

Sep 20, 2018

Each quarter, CFO Signals tracks the thinking and actions of CFOs representing many of North America’s largest and most influential companies. This is the third quarter report for 2018.

CFO Insights — Capital projects: Managing the risk of natural disasters

Sep 06, 2018

This issue discusses the importance of putting capital asset management plans into place that can be called into action if disaster strikes. In addition, it outlines why basing those plans on solid capital and risk management principles can help equip companies with preparedness and flexibility in the unfortunate event of a natural disaster.

CFO Insights — Cloud computing: Resolving some sticky questions

Aug 23, 2018

As companies explore cloud’s various potential impacts and business uses, CFOs are finding that sticky questions related to accounting, fees, and analysts’ concerns keep popping up. This issue addresses ways CFOs can answer those questions and steer conversations and strategies to the potential implications of cloud migration.

CFO Insights — Journey to CFO: Lessons for the next generation

Jul 26, 2018

This issue discusses lessons about what it takes to attain the CFO role and be effective as the business environment and expectations of CFOs change.

CFO Insights — Lease accounting: Six questions CFOs should ask now

Jul 12, 2018

This issue discusses questions CFOs should consider asking their chief accounting officers to facilitate compliance as the adoption of the new leases standard.

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Related Publications

CFO Insights — Leaving a legacy — for your company, your team, and yourself

CFO Insights — Bridging the gap between the finance team you have — and the one you need

CFO Insights — Special edition: Results from 2018 Q4 "CFO Signals" survey

CFO Insights — The Detonate imperative: Why you should blow up your best practices

CFO Insights — What's keeping CFOs up at night in 2018?

CFO Insights — Extended enterprise risk: Managing exposure beyond the organization

CFO Insights — Chapter II: Preparing for life after being CFO

CFO Insights — Special edition: Results from 2018 Q3 "CFO Signals" survey

CFO Insights — Capital projects: Managing the risk of natural disasters

CFO Insights — Cloud computing: Resolving some sticky questions

CFO Insights — Journey to CFO: Lessons for the next generation

CFO Insights — Lease accounting: Six questions CFOs should ask now

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