- Gustavo’s Corner: AI News for CFOs - #19
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- AI investment is entering a more disciplined phase, but demand continues to accelerate. This edition of Gustavo’s Corner highlights how infrastructure constraints are strengthening chipmakers’ pricing power, while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta push AI toward greater efficiency, autonomy, reasoning, and competition. The central question is no longer whether companies will invest in AI, but how quickly they can turn that investment into measurable business value.
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- In the first three articles (Data Lineage 101, 102 and 103) we have discussed why we need data lineage, what data lineage actually is and what are the key legislative requirements for data lineage.
- Cash Flow: Not Just For the CFO
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- Often considered to be the domain of the CFO, cash flow is actually driven by sales, operations, supply chain and other departments in your organization. How we choose to run those departments can dramatically impact the speed with which cash flows into and out of the organization.
Governance & Controls – structure and controls.
Transaction Recording – systems, transaction processing and closing the books.
Reporting - efficient, timely and accurate information for decision making and meeting compliance requirements.
Accounting
Business Planning - provide the financial roadmap for the company with supporting analytics.
Financial Forecasting - integrate the company’s current performance relative to budget with the real-time business environment.
Investment Analysis - the framework to analyze new opportunities as they present themselves.
Finance
Cash Management - the discipline to ensure cash is available to operate the business normally.
Funding - Planning for and raising funds to meet the needs of the business.
Risk Management – Identification and mitigation of key business risks.
Treasury
Self-Awareness - Internal.
Team Building - External.
Strategy & Culture – Motivate people to follow you.
Leadership
Four Pillars of Executive Expertise
CFO.University is built around the Four Pillars of CFO Success. These Pillars are supported with Core Competencies. Our framework allows you to master your role as a senior financial officer. The Four Pillars are made up of:
Accounting – Governance & Controls, Transaction Recording and Reporting
Finance – Business Planning, Financial Forecasting and Investment Analysis
Treasury – Cash Management, Funding (Capital Raising) and Risk Management
Leadership – Self Awareness, Team Building and Strategy & Culture
