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Memphis names new CFO as Tennessee’s growth continues: Trial Balance
Following passage of a nearly $900 million budget, Memphis’ new CFO faces the task of capturing some of the growth flowing to Nashville and Knoxville.
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Sponsored by SalesforceBusinesses doing finance the old way risk stagnation. Agentic AI is the way forward.
Finance teams are being asked to manage more sales channels and revenue models than ever before — often with the same technology and headcount they had a decade ago. Here’s how agentic AI can help.
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CFOs On the Move: Week ending June 26
Pfizer's CFO joins Nike, Wendy's hires Potbelly Sandwiches' CFO, Airwallex's new CFO boomerangs back to the company and more.
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CFO sentiments on world economy ‘decreased substantially’ in Q2
Deloitte’s second-quarter CFO Signals survey showed notable dips in finance chiefs’ assessments of several key regional economies.
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Gousto CFO warns against chasing the private equity payday
On a recent podcast, the U.K.-based meal-kit company’s CFO Jim Buckle urged finance leaders on the job hunt to focus first on the type of business they want to help build, not its ownership structure.
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What CFOs should do in the first 24 hours of a cyberattack
At IMA26, Walter Crawford of OakTruss Group outlined first steps to take in the wake of a major data breach.
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Q&APaystand CFO on why banks see stablecoins as a threat
“Several years ago, anything that mentioned blockchain was instantly tied to crypto, and crypto was kryptonite,” CFO Scott Bennion tells CFO.com.
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CFOs grow more concerned about inflation: Duke-Fed survey
Finance leaders raised cost and price forecasts while lowering expectations for economic growth in the latest quarterly survey.
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Growth in medical costs to stay at historically high level next year
Providers turn up the heat with AI-based revenue management tools, heightened reimbursement pressure and court victories, according to an analysis by PwC.
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Titan International CFO Hernan Rizo’s formula for boosting cash flow
Speaking at IMA26, Rizo argued that finance leaders can unlock cash already inside their businesses by paying closer attention to the costs that often go overlooked.
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Summit Therapeutics finance chief tops list of public CFO pay in 2025
Manmeet Soni, finance chief of the oncology company, had total compensation of nearly $250 million last year, the highest among CFOs at publicly traded firms in America.
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What CFOs would trust an agentic AI clone to do
Hasbro CFO Gina Goetter, CFO Leadership Council founder Jack McCullough and Sysdig CFO Karen Walker offer a practical look at how finance leaders are thinking about agentic AI.
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US regulators seek clarity on ‘ambiguities’ of Dodd-Frank: Trial Balance
As the Commodity Futures Trading Commission faces a lawsuit by a major exchange operator over perpetual futures contracts, the agency has issued a request for comment on aspects of the landmark law.
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PE-backed companies in Europe turn their focus to operational excellence
A more balanced approach to value creation sees improving operations as pulling even with topline growth as key priorities.
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What’s next for corporate tax? Insights from CFO.com’s tax event
Finance leaders and tax experts shared insights on tax scams, inevitable tax increases and AI's role in tax at the “Navigating the Corporate Tax Frontier” event.
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These businesses didn’t pay tariffs. They’re seeking refunds anyway.
With billions of dollars in tariff refunds on the table, businesses further down in the supply chain are starting to look for their share.
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Q&ASysdig CFO Karen Walker on scaling without perfection
The Sysdig finance chief reflects on a career spent scaling fast-growing companies and explains why the CEO-CFO relationship remains one of the most important in the business.
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The 6 a.m. CFO: How Brex’s Erica Dorfman starts her day
Dorfman offers advice on crafting effective emails, shares how her mother inspires her and explains why she was "shushed" by LeBron James.
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Interest in dealmaking stays high while cooling slightly
Recent cross-border acquisitions have performed well, but a hint of caution remains.
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Opinion3 capabilities that define the new FP&A leader
The FP&A teams with the most influence don't have the best models — they have finance leaders who convert complexity into clarity, writes PayPal's Prince Oppong.
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals CFO’s case for thinking like a portfolio manager
After helping scale Vertex Pharmaceuticals from $3 billion to $13 billion in revenue, CFO and COO Charles Wagner says finance leaders must build organizations for opportunities that haven’t emerged yet.
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Maccaferri North America’s ex-CFO charged with wire fraud
Teresa Desy Majo, who previously served as CFO of Maccaferri’s North American arm, is alleged to have used other executives’ identities to “enrich herself.”
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OpinionAI is eroding trust. Accounting and finance professionals can rebuild it
Finance teams are uniquely positioned to restore confidence by pairing AI tools with human judgment, stronger oversight and practical upskilling.
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Most midsized companies now use AI for FP&A
A majority of C-suites have mandated that the finance function apply the technology to internal processes, according to a recent vendor survey.
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SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen joins billionaire ranks after $75B IPO: Trial Balance
The space technology company’s recent IPO reveals the scale of Johnsen’s long-held equity stake.
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8 podcast episodes CFOs should listen to this summer
The CFOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, Figure, Pfizer, the Savannah Bananas, a former Campbell's finance chief and investor Marc Andreessen offer fresh perspectives on finance’s biggest questions.
