CFO Insights

January 2023 Issue

"For today’s CFO, keeping abreast of emerging risk issues and market opportunities has become table stakes for positioning the finance function to play a significant role in improving organizational resilience and shaping long-term success.”

— "Talent, Culture and Disruption Are Top-Ranking Risks for CFOs"

Recent Thought Leadership

UN Executive Secretary: Private Sector Needs to Help Solve Planet’s Biggest Challenges

UN Executive Secretary: We need the private sector to help solve planet’s biggest challenges

The world has a choice. Either we continue with the current nature-destructive path and lose up to half of the global GDP by 2050, or we take a sustainable land management approach, which gives us the chance to generate 50% more wealth by mid-century.

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Need to Know for the CFO: Top 5

Talent, Culture And Disruption Are Top-Ranking Risks For CFOs, Survey Shows

Talent, Culture And Disruption Are Top-Ranking Risks For CFOs, Survey Shows

I love to learn new words. Whether or not CFOs are familiar with this term, they undoubtedly know its connotation and are dealing with its effects every day. Permacrisis—named by the UK-based Collins English Dictionary as the 2022 word of the year—is defined as “an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events.”
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A 5-Step Plan to Operationalize DEIB

Here's a 5-step plan to operationalize diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging

As senior leadership teams evaluate their diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) strategies and objectives for 2023, they might consider the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This fundamental physics principle states that the entropy of an isolated system increases over time.
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The Top Risks for 2023: A Global View

View the 10 global risks highlighting critical uncertainties companies will face over the next year

A global survey of C-level executives and directors focused on macroeconomic, strategic, and operational risks highlights the influence of the economy, people and culture issues, supply chain risks, and technology impacts on the 2023 risk landscape.
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Telling Your ESG Story: Five Data Considerations

5 data considerations to keep in mind while telling your ESG story

The first formal mention of environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles appeared some 18 years ago in the United Nations Global Compact initiative, which garnered support from financial institutions across the world.
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Significant issues audit committees need to be aware of.

Significant issues audit committees need to be aware of

We invite you to join our upcoming 2023 Setting the Audit Committee Agenda webinar. Unprecedented times are causing the audit committee agenda to evolve.
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