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The CFO Insights Library

A collection of perspectives for financial executives

CFO Insights is a monthly Deloitte publication that tackles the portfolio of issues finance executives face in today’s dynamic environment. It provides an easily digestible and regular stream of perspectives on those challenges—with plenty of practical advice to help you stay ahead of the competition.

Topic AI & Digital Transformation

For CFOs, time to gather intelligence on GenAI

Dec-23
Perspective

The incalculable potential—and potential pitfalls—of the quantified organization

 Aug-23
Perspective

Paved With Intention: A Path To Getting Financial Value Out Of Digital Transformation | Deloitte US

May-23
Perspective

Intelligence gathering: Bringing AI technology into strategic planning

Jun-21

Mastering data for better insights—and competitive advantage

Jan-21

Why CFOs should have artificial intelligence on their minds

Oct-20

Tax transformation: Remodeling tax departments for the future

Dec-19

The technology fallacy: Embracing the human face of digital transformation

Oct-19

23 and You: How many traits of digital DNA does your company have?

Oct-19

Revolutionizing reporting in the digital age

Jun-19

Operational Efficiency & Resiliency

Is private credit unlocking a new approach to corporate financing?

Feb-25
Perspective

The new, interconnected nature of CPOs and CFOs

Mar-24
Perspective

Transaction heroes – How CFOs can position their companies for a possible M&A revival

Sep-23
Perspective

Treasury hunting: Why CFOs may now want to search for improvements to make in the treasury function

Aug-23
Perspective

New asset class? Why PE firms should consider investing in their own finance departments

Jul-23

Environmental Impact: How Finance Leaders Can Add Value to Sustainability Efforts | Deloitte US

Jun-23

Managing execution risks in transformations: What could possibly go wrong?

Mar-23
Perspective

For finance leaders, promoting a culture of cash could make sense

Mar-23
Perspective

For Newly Hired CFOs, Building A Sturdy Talent Framework May Take Seven Pillars

Feb-23
Analysis

What CFOs can do to help their controllers’ roles keep growing

Dec-22
Perspective

How CFOs can learn the ins and outs of the hybrid work model

Oct-22

Steps CFOs can take to find reliable metrics for tracking well-being

Aug-22

Why CFOs are moving toward a more dynamic finance function

Jul-22

Why the Russia-Ukraine war may drive CFOs to reconfigure battered supply chains

Jul-22

How CFOs can make their IT inheritance less taxing

Jun-22

You have just inherited IT, now what? Ten considerations to help shape your priorities

May-22

Done deals: How companies can make M&A a winning growth strategy

May-22

Why trust should be one of your key performance indicators

Apr-22

The art of agile: Success factors in building an adaptive business

Feb-22

Provoking the future: How CFOs can take action to illuminate uncertainty

Jan-22

Seize the DEI: How CFOs can help implement strategies around diversity, equity, and inclusion

Jan-22

Welcome to the “no normal”: Exploring The Transformation Myth

Nov-21

Zero Trust: In the face of escalating cyber-attacks, companies target a new level of security

Aug-21

Is rising corporate debt a problem? Not necessarily.

Aug-21

For CFOs, putting well-being to work can offer healthy returns

Jul-21

The agile advantage: Moving transformations from unknowns to outcomes

May-21

Supply chain risks: How to identify and mitigate your weakest links

Mar-21

What’s on your transformation risk checklist? Part II

Nov-20

Moving target—What it takes for annual planning to hit the mark

Jun-20

COVID-19 checklist – Practical steps for the immediate, midterm, and long term, Part l

Apr-20

COVID-19 checklist – Practical steps for the immediate, midterm, and long term, Part ll

Apr-20

Capital allocation – Creating a risk-resilient cash plan amid COVID-19

Apr-20

Investor relations – Adapting to the COVID-19 next normal

Apr-20

Managing through COVID-19 – Six imperatives for CFOs

Apr-20

Other

The CFO Agenda 2024

Apr-24
About Us

Best of CFO Insights 2023: Spotlighting seven of our most popular stories

Dec-23
Perspective

The CFO Agenda 2023

Apr-23
About Us

Globalization isn’t going anywhere

Feb-23
Perspective

Sarbanes-Oxley at 20: For CFOs, it may be time for a refreshing experience

Sep-22

How CFOs can rise to meet the challenge of soaring inflation

Aug-22

The CFO Agenda

Mar-22
About Us

Future scenarios: Are CFOs too worried about inflation—or not worried enough?

Feb-22

Finance 2025: Looking ahead with the benefit of hindsight

Oct-21

Making change: Should bitcoin be on your balance sheet?

Apr-21

From endless winter to new dawn: What might a post–COVID-19 economy look like?

Feb-21

What CFOs can deduce about President-elect Biden’s tax policy

Dec-20

What’s keeping CFOs up at night in 2020?

Sep-20

Investor relations: What CFOs need to know before an IPO

Oct-19

Economic cycles: What should CFOs prepare for now?

May-19

Finance 2025. Are you ready?

Apr-19

Talent & Culture

Embracing employee empowerment in modern management

Jan-25
Perspective

Legacy systems: Why companies need a formal CFO succession plan

Aug-24
Perspective

CFOs and decision-making fatigue: A whirlwind of implications

Jul-24
Perspective

What CFOs can learn from sport psychology

Nov-23
Perspective

The human touch – How CFOs can support a culture of well-being

Jul-23
Perspective

For CFOs, the full impact of the Inflation Reduction Act is still coming into focus

Nov-22

Hiring on all cylinders: What companies want from a post-pandemic CFO

Jul-21

Group dynamics: Can you fix a dysfunctional team?

May-21

Charting a new course for controllers in the post-pandemic world

Apr-21

From controlling to coaching: How will you lead in an age of turbulence?

Apr-21

What CFOs can learn from “undisruptable” CEOs

Oct-20

Finding CFO—How executive search has evolved during the pandemic

Aug-20

Compensation reconsidered: Making a human-centered approach pay off

Jul-20

Internal mobility: Finding the hidden gems in your workforce

Aug-19

Board bios: Positioning yourself for the director seat you want

Jul-19

Bridging the gap between the finance team you have—and the one you need

Jan-19

Value Creation

Using cost optimization to preserve long-term value

Nov-24
Perspective

Reinventing the mergers and acquisitions market

May-24
Perspective

How CFOs are handling commercial real estate challenges

Feb-24
Perspective

For CFOs, enhancing supply chain performance may be a matter of trust

Oct-23

Rethinking the value equation

Jun-23
Perspective

Now’s the time for CFOs to seize the data

Apr-23
Perspective

What audit committees really want from CFOs

Dec-22

Are you ready to make the switch to Lights Out Finance?

Nov-22

Getting ahead - How CFOs can align minds and machines to reinvent forecasting

Oct-22

Resilience: How finance leaders can bounce up to their highest potential

Mar-22

Capital allocation: Is it time for a refresh?

Oct-21

Return trip: How companies are rethinking travel for the long term

Sep-21

Targeting procurement: Why CFOs should take direct aim at indirect spend

Sep-21

Digital RMB: Assessing the benefits—and challenges—of China’s new currency

Jan-21

Taking stock: How to assess SPACs and other IPO options in a post-pandemic market

Nov-20

Reinventing FP&A for the pandemic and beyond

Aug-20

Space exploration - CFO considerations for strategically evaluating real estate

Jul-20

In the coming economy, M&A strategies emerging as a big deal

Jun-20

Closing time – Preparing for the next virtual financial close

May-20

Remote control – How finance works, not where, matters most now

May-20

AI & Digital Transformation

The path to GenAI adoption in finance

Discover how finance leaders can prepare their departments for GenAI adoption, deployment, integration, and value creation in Deloitte’s CFO Insights.
About Us

For CFOs, Time to Gather Intelligence on GenAI

In this edition of CFO Insights, we’ll explore how CFOs can identify where to deploy GenAI in the finance function.
Perspective

The Incalculable Potential—and Potential Pitfalls—of the Quantified Organization

In this issue of CFO Insights, we examine the rise of the “quantified organization”—what it is, the potential impacts on businesses, and what it could mean for chief financial officers.
Perspective

Paved With Intention: A Path To Getting Financial Value Out Of Digital Transformation

In this edition of CFO Insights, we will examine what the Deloitte Global analysis of 10 years’ worth of financial disclosures—from more than 4,000 global organizations—revealed as to which combinations of technology investments and capabilities yield the most enterprise value.
Perspective

Operational Efficiency & Resiliency

Private Credit Growth and Corporate Financing

Nonbank lenders are piquing CFO interest. CFO Insights explores potential corporate financing benefits within the private credit market.
Perspective

The Symbiotic Relationship Between CFOs and CPOs

See how a new kind of collaboration between procurement and finance departments can boost business resilience.
Perspective

Transaction Heroes: How CFOs Can Position Their Companie For a Possible M&A Revival

In this edition of CFO Insights, we’ll explore how CFOs can adapt to the current M&A environment—and prepare for the shape of the potential M&A market to come.
Perspective

Treasury Hunting: Why Now Might be the Time for CFOs to Search for Improvements in the Treasury Function

In this edition of CFO Insights, we’ll help guide CFOs and treasurers in increasing the function’s efficiency and resiliency by, for example, pinpointing transparency gaps, identifying new risk exposures, and considering future needs.
Perspective

Managing execution risks in transformations: What could possibly go wrong?

In this edition of CFO Insights, adapted from the book, we’ll explore how new CFOs can resist the imperative to rush into a transformation, instead taking the time upfront to assess the likely execution risks that could bedevil a change initiative before it can gain traction.
Perspective

For finance leaders, promoting a culture of cash could make sense

In this edition of CFO Insights, we’ll explore how CFOs can help spread a “culture of cash.”
Perspective

For Newly Hired CFOs, Building A Sturdy Talent Framework May Take Seven Pillars

In this edition of CFO Insights, we look at how incoming chief financial officers can build a motivated and skilled finance team by focusing on these seven pillars—and what they will likely need from human resources to make it happen.
Analysis

What CFOs can do to help their controllers’ role keep growing

In this edition of CFO Insights, we explore the role CFOs can play in shrinking the distance between controllers and their aspirations for higher office. What duties should they help their controllers start—or stop—doing?
Perspective

Talent & Culture

CFO leadership insights on employee empowerment

Discover modern leadership insights for CFOs that support employee empowerment in this edition of CFO Insights.
Perspective

CFO Succession Planning

Why do companies need a formal CFO succession plan in place? Read our latest CFO Insights article for answers.
Perspective

Challenges of the Decision-Making Process for CFOs

Are CFOs struggling with increasing indecisiveness? How is this affecting their organizations? CFO Insights dives deeper.
Perspective

Change of Mind: What CFOs Can Learn From Sport Psychology

In this edition of CFO Insights, we examine what CFOs can pick up from sport psychology to enhance their own performances.
Perspective

The Human Touch: How CFOs Can Support a Culture of Well-Being

In this edition of CFO Insights, we’ll explore the influential role CFOs can play in supporting a thriving well-being culture. What does it mean to lead with well-being? Which policies and practices promote utilization? And how can leaders even begin to assess worker well-being?
Perspective

Value Creation

The long-term value of cost optimization for CFOs

Is “cost optimization” a new, improved approach to cost management? Find out in our latest CFO Insights.
Perspective

M&A Market Funding, Objectives, and Outlooks

From funding to objectives, the M&A market has evolved over the last few years. Read this edition of CFO Insights to catch up.
Perspective

Challenges for Commercial Real Estate CFOs

Explore the state of commercial real estate today—and how industry CFOs can position their companies for a market upturn.
Perspective

Rethinking the Value Equation: How CFOs Can Catalyze Value Creation for a Broader Group of Stakeholders

In this issue of CFO Insights, we provide an updated view of value creation from multiple stakeholders’ perspectives. The new Sustainable Value Map™ offers a playbook for CFOs to manage interdependencies and tradeoffs in ways that can produce returns for a broad set of stakeholder groups.
Perspective

Now’s The Time For CFOs To Seize The Data

In this edition of CFO Insights, we’ll explain why it’s now critical for CFOs to take a systematic approach to leveraging data to inform decisions and create value. As is true of any asset, acquiring and managing data carries costs.
Perspective

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