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Sep 10, 2024 | 
cfobrew.com | Drew Adamek
Stop us if you’ve heard this before (and we know you have, because we’ve said it about a bajillion times): AI is the future of finance. That’s certainly true for Oracle NetSuite; the company announced yesterday that it was embedding a raft of Gen AI tools into its suite of products, including new financial exception detection, data analytics, and planning capabilities.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
cfobrew.com | Drew Adamek
Cue movie trailer narrator: In a world beset with misinformation and regulatory complexity, it falls on finance professionals to conduct accurate and timely due diligence to protect their organizations from fraud, legal, and reputational risk. However, that’s a great big mandate: Do finance professionals have what it takes?
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
cfobrew.com | Drew Adamek
CFOs thrive on accurate information. But in a world awash in misinformation, knowing what’s true can be challenging. That makes due diligence an increasingly important part of a CFO’s job, especially as compliance the world over becomes more complex. Understanding who your company is working with, who your customers are, and what your employees are up to are critical to avoiding non-compliance and fraud. But where to start?
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
cfobrew.com | Drew Adamek
If one of your junior accountants shows up to work in a Lamborghini, you just might have an occupational fraud problem. Financial crime committed by employees against their employers, also known as occupational fraud, is a growing problem that costs organizations trillions of dollars a year globally, and may be the most common type of financial crime in the world, according to Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) research.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
cfobrew.com | Drew Adamek
We’re as stumped (as you probably are) about how we’ve already gotten halfway through 2024. While we’re not particularly excited about the gray hairs we’ve sprouted since the calendar flipped, we have collected six months’ worth of LinkedIn cheat sheets on finance and accounting, and that is something to get worked up about. To help ease our way into the second half of the year, we’ve compiled some of the best, most popular tips we’ve found since January.
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May 22, 2024 | 
cfobrew.com | Drew Adamek
News built for finance prosCFO Brew helps finance pros navigate their roles with insights into risk management, compliance, and strategy through our newsletter, virtual events, and digital guides. TBH, this was a tough cheat sheet roundup to write. Summer is here, there’s yard work to be done, drinks on the patio to be had and digging through LinkedIn seems low on the priority list.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
cfobrew.com | Drew Adamek
News built for finance prosCFO Brew helps finance pros navigate their roles with insights into risk management, compliance, and strategy through our newsletter, virtual events, and digital guides. We here at CFO Brew think it’s time to stop saying that the CFO’s role is changing and start saying that the CFO role has changed. The evolution of the role isn’t complete, but it’s certainly irrevocable.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
cfobrew.com | Drew Adamek
News built for finance prosCFO Brew helps finance pros navigate their roles with insights into risk management, compliance, and strategy through our newsletter, virtual events, and digital guides. It’s getting hard to open the news without seeing disruptive headlines: geopolitical tensions, natural disasters, economic instability. Steering businesses through this uncertainty towards stability and finding opportunities for growth is becoming a central part of the finance professional’s role.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
cfobrew.com | Drew Adamek
President Biden’s State of the Union address was a doozy, as highly scripted, meticulously stage-managed bits of political theater go. But setting optics aside, Biden offered substantial new corporate tax proposals that would, among other things, raise the corporate tax rate to 28%, increase the minimum corporate tax to 21%, boost the stock buyback tax to 4% from 1%, eliminate deductions for employee salaries over $1 million, and close corporate jet loopholes.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
cfobrew.com | Drew Adamek
News built for finance prosCFO Brew helps finance pros navigate their roles with insights into risk management, compliance, and strategy through our newsletter, virtual events, and digital guides. Hopefully, we’ve gotten through the worst of the winter blues. The sun is peeking out here and there to warm up some days, and baseball’s preseason has already started. But, as much as we’d like to ditch it all for a cold one and an afternoon doubleheader, there’s still work to be done.
