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Dec 11, 2024 | 
accountancyage.com | Peter Spence |Rachael King
In business, decisions are made daily in all corners of the organisation. In November, I wrote about the importance of having an engaged workforce, which drives business strategies, takes on challenging responsibilities, and makes decisions to propel the organisation forward. However, things are not always that straightforward.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
the-cfo.io | Peter Spence |Rachael King
In business, decisions are made daily in all corners of the organisation. In November, I wrote about the importance of having an engaged workforce, which drives business strategies, takes on challenging responsibilities, and makes decisions to propel the organisation forward. However, things are not always that straightforward.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
the-cfo.io | Peter Spence |Rachael King
It might sound counterintuitive but having a group of individual high performers or even high-performing teams does not always translate to a high-performing organisation. To achieve consistent results and foster a high-performing culture, your employees need to have a strong sense of belonging, ownership, and accountability. This is essential for individuals and teams to be more motivated, engaged, and productive, and in turn, enable your organisation to thrive.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
accountancyage.com | Peter Spence |Rachael King
Earlier this year, I wrote about the challenges that many finance teams face when it comes to understanding, assessing, and communicating, the value that intangible assets bring to organisations – a problem that investors have attempted to solve by themselves. If you look closely at the (market) values that investors put on businesses, you’ll quickly see that these exceed the (book) values that finance teams put on their balance sheets.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
the-cfo.io | Peter Spence |Marina Mouka
Businesses are told that they must invest in a growing number of sustainability initiatives, which may impair short-term financial performance while improving long-term business resilience. For business leaders, whose performance is largely measured on the organisation’s financial health, this is often a hard sell.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
accountancyage.com | Peter Spence |Marina Mouka
Businesses are told that they must invest in a growing number of sustainability initiatives, which may impair short-term financial performance while improving long-term business resilience. For business leaders, whose performance is largely measured on the organisation’s financial health, this is often a hard sell.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
accountancyage.com | Peter Spence |Rachael King
At the very heart of almost every major company in the world is a vast stock of intangible capital. In 2022 the consultancy firm Ocean Tomo estimated that 90% of the S&P500 market value consisted of intangible assets, up from 32% in 1985. The dominance of intangible assets, or the ‘knowledge economy’, is a widely accepted part of modern business, but the finance profession hasn’t fully caught up with the shift. This is to be expected.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
accountancyage.com | Peter Spence |Rachael King
I sincerely believe that the people building their careers today are extremely fortunate to be doing so at a time when technology is pushing the boundaries of the possible. For finance professionals, the potential power of modern data analytics and artificial intelligence could turn out to be our own industrial revolution. Organisations everywhere are rightly scrambling to find ways to take advantage of this new technology.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
accountancyage.com | Peter Spence |Rachael King
A recent Deloitte survey put the UK’s poor productivity at the top of CFOs’ worry list, preceded only by geopolitical risks. This could be seen as an opportunity. After all, if you can work smarter in your organisation while others lag behind or need to work harder to grow their businesses, you should be able to gain a competitive advantage.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
the-cfo.io | Peter Spence |Rachael King
A recent Deloitte survey put the UK’s poor productivity at the top of CFOs’ worry list, preceded only by geopolitical risks. This could be seen as an opportunity. After all, if you can work smarter in your organisation while others lag behind or need to work harder to grow their businesses, you should be able to gain a competitive advantage.
