As I often remark, CFOs and other senior finance professionals are transitioning from “bean counters” to “bean sprouters,” as we play a greater role in our organizations’ strategy. According to a ...

I'm a Certified Financial Planner with a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from the number-one entrepreneurship college in the country. I have more than two decades of experience in the ...

Businesses are rebounding but Finance/Accounting groups getting no new headcount post-2008 Big changes in financial/managerial reporting tools are here New technology leaders well on the way Yet, the ...

Didi Gurfinkel is the co-founder and CEO of DataRails, a powerful software product that helps CFOs and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) pros with their planning and reporting needs. Gurfinkle ...

IMGCAP(1)]Ever since the earliest spreadsheet software, people have been relinquishing many tasks and responsibilities to this ubiquitous tool, and for good reason: spreadsheets are easy to set up, ...

Picture this: A CFO battling through spreadsheets into the wee hours of the morning, attempting to make sense of a confusing maze of fluctuating costs and unpredictable market trends. The financial ...

When tech exec Matt Wood arrived at PwC, he found that massive spreadsheets were "all anybody was working on." ...

Spreadsheets create an illusion of orderliness, accuracy, and integrity. The tidy rows and columns of data, instant calculations, eerily invisible updating, and other features of these ubiquitous ...