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    Finance Data Priorities: First Get It Right, Then Make It Pretty
    Baseball great Yogi Berra is fondly remembered for famously miscalculating that, “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.” Unfortunately, making similar miscalculations on data in the business world is neither funny nor fondly remembered – such errors can damage reputations and create conflicts with customers, investors and regulators. As we increase our reliance on data for…
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    2018 Finance Trends: Security, Privacy and Governance of Finance Data Are Top Concerns, for Good Reason
    Data security and privacy is receiving a lot of attention at the highest levels of organizations these days. Boards are asking about it, executive management is concerned about it, and a growing number of regulations are placing demand on organizations to respond and comply appropriately. We are not surprised then that finance data security and privacy ranked as the top priority for the finance…
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    Finance Data Priorities: First Get It Right, Then Make It Pretty
    Baseball great Yogi Berra is fondly remembered for famously miscalculating that, “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.” Unfortunately, making similar miscalculations on data in the business world is neither funny nor fondly remembered – such errors can damage reputations and create conflicts with customers, investors and regulators. As we increase our reliance on data for…
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    Microsoft Copilot for Finance: From Productivity to Finance Transformation
    Finance organizations are at a pivotal moment. What began as AI experimentation for productivity is now becoming functional transformation, with Microsoft Copilot enabling finance teams to accelerate analysis, reduce manual effort and deliver higher value insights. According to Protiviti’s 2025 Finance Trends Survey, 72 percent of finance leaders are now using AI tools, up from 34 percent just…
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    CFOs Now Consider the Security and Privacy of Finance Data Their Top Priority
    “Data is the new oil,” proclaimed The Economist magazine in 2017, succinctly making the point that data has become extremely valuable and that those who have it need to keep it secure. Losing important company data can be the equivalent of a country losing control over its most precious energy resource. Finance executives certainly have received the message. CFOs responding to Protiviti’s 2019…
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    ESG: Nine Actions CFOs and Finance Leaders Can Take Today
    Findings from our latest Global Finance Trends survey reveal that environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy and reporting are taking center stage as a top priority of CFOs today. Case in point: In 75% of organizations, the finance team has taken on ESG risks and issues as part of its role. With their unique blend of financial management fundamentals, risk intelligence and access to…
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    AI’s Last Mile Runs Through Finance
    Like the dot-com era at the turn of the century, the current artificial intelligence (AI) moment has a last-mile problem. Back then, the bottleneck was insufficient telecommunications infrastructure. Limited fiber-optic coverage left consumers with slow connections, which impeded digital transactions and the delivery of valuable offerings. Today, shareholders and boards are pressing C-suites to…
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    Moving Finance to the Cloud: What Finance Leaders Need to Know
    As cloud technology matures, an increasing number of companies are migrating financial functions away from on-premise systems. In our most recent Finance Trends survey, more than half (58%) of the respondents said that they plan to increase their spending on cloud applications in 2020 — indicating that they either have already migrated and or are planning to do so this year. The movement of…
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    From Premise to Practice — Technology Is Providing Finance Leaders With Long-Sought-After Answers to Important Questions
    As custodians of company data, finance leaders are fielding more questions from internal stakeholders than ever before. Those stakeholders — from the board down to operational line managers — want more metrics, more analytics, and deeper and more meaningful insights into financial and operational performance. The questions themselves aren’t new. It has only been recently, however, that finance…
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    Podcast | Transform: Assessing CFO and finance leader perspectives and priorities for the coming year – with Chris Wright and Nick Puetz
    A look at the top priorities for CFOs and finance leaders in the coming year — among them, security and privacy of data, financial and strategic planning and analysis, leadership, and enhanced data analytics — reveals a tale of transformation for CFOs whose responsibilities continue to widen.
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