Why learning buzzwords is the key to understanding financial performance
If you really want to understand financial performance, you must first learn the specialized language that describes it….
The cashless future is already here
Paper cash is on its way out. Cashless payments are already the norm in many countries all over…
What Financial Cycle Time shows about a company’s disruptive power
Financial Cycle Time (FCT) expresses the one thing that the world’s best disruptors have in common: the ability…
The hidden ways that financial models affect corporate culture
High- and low-margin companies don’t just have opposite approaches to profit-making; they also often have deep differences in company…
Finance managers: end the acronym obsession
Financial professionals who insist on using complicated industry jargon make the entire field inaccessible. I have become…
Meet the female entrepreneurs using finance to build communities
Rosanna Ramos-Velita is a new kind of financial leader using her industry expertise to empower women and develop…
Why you need a reliable way to measure productivity
Without a reliable measure for productivity, your business could be losing out on potential revenue and agility. Duke…
Telecom transformations and the pitfalls of net present value
No industry has radically changed how it does business in the past two decades as frequently as telecommunications….
American Express’s Ash Gupta on big data
Ash Gupta, president of the risk and information management group and chief risk officer at American Express, sat down…
How to define profitable growth for your stakeholders
Profitable growth is one of the most important indicators for measuring your company’s financial success, but it’s also…
CFO forecasts for the US economy
CFOs are generally optimistic about the performance of the US economy, a new survey shows. But these forecasted…
The uncertain future of Big Tech’s goodwill investment
Tech giants like Facebook have poured billions into goodwill investments in intangible assets. Can it last? In my…
