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The Crunch time series for CFOs

Practical guides to modernizing the finance function

Now more than ever, Finance needs to be ready for anything. And with the right know-how, anything can become opportunity.

Latest: The CFO as a value driver

Today’s CFO sits at the crossroads of the organization, not only accounting for the investments it makes but steering them as well. Other functions have their own responsibilities for growth, but it’s the CFO who brings the risk-balanced, capital-shaped perspective that's often needed to push through uncertainty, avoid paralysis, and find ways forward in the moment.

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The exponential CFO

Today’s CFO role is evolving at rapid speed. To face this challenge head-on, CFOs must adapt and become exponential. Dive into our latest Crunch time report to discover the macro and internal forces driving this change—along with key perspectives, tools, and capabilities to prepare CFOs for what’s next.

Novel and exponential technologies in Finance

Generative AI, language models, machine learning, augmented reality, quantum computing: These hot topics are everywhere, and they likely aren’t going away. Everywhere you turn, it seems like someone is testing the abilities of consumer-facing generative AI applications, such as ChatGPT, AlphaCode, DALL·E, and Bard, and learning their limitations … and potential. And everyone—including Finance leaders—could be wondering what these technologies mean for their work and for the future.
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It's time to get serious about data

Everywhere a CFO turns, something underscores the need to care about and prioritize data right now. But ask yourself: is your organization really serious about data? If not, think about it: a comprehensive, serious approach to data can elevate finance to a more strategic role within the organization. In our latest Crunch time report, we explore how CFOs can get serious about their data — and what they can expect when they do.
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Lights Out Finance™

Lights Out Finance™ is about working smarter. It’s time to take a lights out approach to your back-office finance operations with touchless processes and intelligent automation. You might even be surprised to learn that you have many of the resources to become truly digital—it’s just a matter of fine-tuning the dials. Ready to flip the switch?
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The finance workforce of now

What do finance workers want? We asked them about topics like flexibility, compensation, and meaningful work. Their answers reveal trends that are forging the workforce of the future. Learn more in our Crunch time report, The finance workforce of now.
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The future of Finance is Dynamic

How does Finance address this constantly evolving and dynamic business environment? By becoming dynamic itself – and that means it’s time for Dynamic Finance. Learn more in our new Crunch time report, Dynamic Finance.

Untangling capital allocation

How an organization handles the allocation of capital is a complicated question involving shifting priorities, multiple stakeholders, and inevitable tradeoffs. There’s a lot at stake, but so much to gain when you answer these key questions: Where to start and why now? We help guide you through the challenges in our new Crunch time guide, Untangling capital allocation.

Finance 2025 revisited

Change in the business world is nothing new, but today’s realities do indeed feel different. With so many potential investment opportunities—and so much in the market still left uncertain—CFOs are scrambling to make sense of it all. The Crunch time report revisits 8 predictions about the future of Finance and what CFOs can do now.
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The CFO guide to SAP S/4HANA®

For many CFOs, deciding when and how to implement SAP S/4HANA could be the most significant technology investment choices of their career. It’s a big deal. Check out this guide that explains the benefits of stepping up to the new system and what to consider for a smooth implementation.
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The CFO guide to data management strategy

Faced with the challenge of connecting and analyzing data from multiple sources, you might think you need to overhaul your core technology platforms. A large-scale ERP implementation is one way to handle the problem. But it’s not your only option.

Revolutionizing enterprise service delivery

Faced with the challenge of promoting growth, efficiency, and agility in the midst of shrinking budgets, many CFOs are taking a fresh look at service delivery models. Cost efficiencies are table stakes. Boosting enterprise resiliency and leveraging digital disruptors are the new frontier.

Tax in a digital world

When Tax is modernized, it shifts from being mostly a compliance function to a high-value planning and reporting function. Check out this guide that reveals the impact of new data modeling tools and other resources that make it possible to deliver valuable tax insights and implications—in real time.

Enterprise Business Planning in a connected world

What if you, as CFO, could combine multiple business planning processes into one integrated approach—resulting in a plan all key functional leaders are committed to and measured against? And what if digital tools supporting that plan, combined with human insight, could show you in real time the impact of financial, operating, and commercial decisions?

The finance workforce in a digital world

The technology coming into Finance is changing what humans do and how they do it, sometimes a lot. But that doesn’t necessarily mean wholesale workforce changes. CFOs need to align today’s Finance talent to the promise of tomorrow’s technologies—while still maintaining a workforce that can fulfill all the company’s basic financial and regulatory requirements. That’s no easy feat. But those who get it right stand to benefit enormously.

The CFO guide to transforming finance with Oracle Cloud

Digital platforms can make finance organizations faster and more effective than ever before. But the devil is in the details. What’s the right digital architecture for your company? When are you ready to begin implementation? How can new technology help you keep pace with expanding business and regulatory requirements—or even meet challenges posed by a global public health crisis? As you consider your options, you’ll want to take a look at Oracle Cloud.

Finance 2025: Our predictions

Check out our original eight bold predictions about how finance organizations might evolve over the next several years (or check out the updated version here). The technologies needed to reimagine Finance are here and they will only get better.
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Forecasting in a digital world

Learn how algorithmic forecasting can be a transparent way to improve the forecasting process, while relieving finance professionals of tedious, repetitive work. The result? More accurate and timely forecasts—and more informed decisions.
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Reporting in a digital world

Explore how digital tools like automation, advanced analytics, and machine learning are making both financial and internal management reporting faster, more insightful, and less costly—and the lessons learned along the way.

The CFO guide to cloud

Rare is the company that doesn’t have some sort of cloud initiative underway. This guide shares answers to CFOs’ frequently asked questions about cloud investments anywhere in the enterprise, as well as within Finance. Learn about the opportunities and challenges that come with investing in the cloud so you can make more effective cloud decisions.

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Ed Hardy

Ed Hardy

Partner | Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory
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Case studies on digital transformation in the finance function

Our case studies demonstrate how the predictions made in our Finance 2025 report are becoming a reality, today. See how we helped real clients solve emerging finance issues by adopting digital ways of working and thinking.

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