This week’s AI developments show how quickly the industry is moving from experimentation to large-scale deployment. OpenAI, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Anthropic are addressing different parts of the same transition: how AI is trained, governed, secured, embedded into new devices, and connected to enterprise data.
You’re flattered and excited. You might even be thinking about selling, and you want to hear what they have to say.
STOP!!
Find out why in, How to Handle Unsolicited Offers to Buy Your Company.
Bernie responds to these questions in this CFO Talk episode:
What is the number one reason you urge your clients to use key performance indicators?
How important is it to experiment with your KPIs?
A Nalla Duarte Story About Decision Velocity
The executive team had been waiting 11 days for an answer on a pricing decision. A competitor had unexpectedly reduced capacity in one of the company’s most profitable markets, creating an opportunity to raise prices and selectively pursue customers that suddenly found themselves short of supply. The CEO wanted to move. Sales wanted to move even faster. Operations needed to know how much additional volume the plants could handle. Finance, however, was still analyzing.
You’ve spent years building your business — taking risks, solving problems, and creating something of value. If you want to maximize that value in a sale someday, you should be investing in your accounting systems.
Accounting is the language of business and detailed, accurate, decision-ready financial reporting is necessary to give buyers a clear view of how your business performs. The quality and sophistication of your accounting matters more than most owners realize — and getting it right can deliver more dollars when it’s time to sell. Here’s why;
