Gustavo Porporato Daher
This edition highlights how the AI landscape is rapidly shifting from experimentation to integrated productivity across major enterprise platforms. Microsoft’s rollouts signal a direct push toward automation and low-code development, making process optimization accessible to non-technical teams. Anthropic’s new Skills and Claude for Excel reinforce a clear move toward embedded, task-specific AI—bringing analytical, presentation, and compliance capabilities directly into tools CFOs already rely on.
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Most finance leaders can recite their cost of goods sold down to the basis point. They know supplier terms, volume discounts, and margin impacts like the back of their hand. But ask about spend on waste management, cleaning, or software subscriptions, and the answer gets vague.
This isn’t an oversight. It’s structural. And it’s costing companies millions annually.
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CFO.University
The Cash Velocity Calculator estimates how long it takes on average to convert a dollar paid for inventory into a dollar received on sales. Using some basic figures from your financial statements you’ll have a transparent view of where your working capital is invested and how improvements in terms or operations will impact cash. Use this tool to teach your executive team and staff about working capital and cash management.
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CFO.University
Sound business systems precede innovation.
Before innovation can be a catalyst to business growth a culture of strong business practices must exist.
Innovation, the process by which an idea or invention is translated into a good or service, is a critical component of growth in many businesses. Innovation relies on creativity, exploration and freedom. Frequently these characteristics are regarded as the opposite of discipline, control and structured process. However, without strong business practices that recognize and nurture advancement in good business systems, innovative practices are unlikely to make it to commercialization.
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CFO.University and Steve Rosvold
One of the most critical decisions executive teams make is how to allocate resources. This includes both tangible (physical and financial) and intangible (human and intellectual) resources. In this article we’ll focus on developing the inputs, processes and a tool to help your leadership team in the following ways:
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