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Ernie Humphrey CTP
(Executive Director at The CFO Alliance) 
CFOs are increasingly being challenged to lead across the enterprise. How does a CFO become a trusted advisor to HR, Marketing and Sales leaders? According to several hundred Finance...
John Kogan
(CEO/CFO at Proformative, Inc.)
Today Proformative is proud to announce the launch of its Competency Assessment Framework for all members of the office of the CFO. The framework enables individuals to quickly create...
Jitendra Pabrekar
(Associate Director, Valuation and Adviso.. at Aranca)
What makes boutique professional services outfits valuable? The people who work at such firms. And, what can make acquisition of such professional services firms dubious? Again, the...
Theresa Eng
(Consultant at RoseRyan)
Without the right tone at the top, you could be encouraging fraud. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. A top executive of a public company suddenly resigns. This person had...
Anders Liu-Lindberg
(Regional Finance Business Partner at Maersk Line Northern Europe)
The Finance Function is changing and has been doing so for a while. I've investigated what's beyond (not behind) all this change. Beyond the final frontier of Finance. To...
Ernie Humphrey CTP
(Executive Director at The CFO Alliance)
I am pleased to share what will be the 100th Blog I have posted on Proformative. The CFO Alliance hosted a CFO roundtable in Orange County which featured Andrew Tinseth,...
Robert Hawn
(Partner at Strategy Law, LLP)
As a San Jose corporate lawyer, many of our clients make their money through software licenses. As part of their deals, a number of risks have to be allocated. One major risk is...
John O'Rourke
(VP of Product Marketing at Host Analytics)
The worlds of Finance and EPM are rapidly changing. Finance teams are shifting their focus from counting and scorekeeping, to adding strategic value to the business, They...
Richard Rafdahl
(President at Cost Reduction Specialists Inc.)
Are they contributing to the success, profitability and growth of the organization? With the 2009 economic downturn and more recent slow recovery, we have all experienced the...
Laresa McIntyre
(Vice President Finance at Infinity Sales Group LLC)
We in the finance & accounting field can be creatures of habit. We get used to looking at things in terms of months. This is how we are schooled and how most...
Adam Jernigan
(Founder & CEO at Financials OnTap)
Fulltime hiring is expensive, especially if that person is a CFO or VP of Finance. Fortunately, the “Fractional CFO” business is booming allowing companies of all...
Mary Driscoll
(Senior Research Fellow at APQC (American Productivity and Quality ..)
Very soon, most Proformative readers will be neck-deep in developing next year’s budget. Perhaps now is a good time to think about the pain imposed on business managers by...
Rob Blake
(Director of Product Management at Certent)
Recently the SEC announced the start of the Inline XBRL, or iXBRL, voluntary filing program which runs through March 2020. External reporting professionals have heard rumblings of...
Blair Illiano
(N/A at N/A)
Running your own in-house accounting services may have worked well for your business so far, but if you’re looking to cut some costs and save some money, then outsourcing your...
John O'Rourke
(VP of Product Marketing at Host Analytics)
Budgeting and forecasting is an integral part of every business, and yet it is often the most inefficient. In a recent Proformative webinar called Best Practices and Techniques...
Ernie Humphrey CTP
(Executive Director at The CFO Alliance)
Changing jobs has become the norm over the past several years. There is no longer much of a stigma or as much risk of being branded a “job hopper”. Those who change...
Mary Driscoll
(Senior Research Fellow at APQC (American Productivity and Quality ..)
In a recent survey, APQC found that three out of four finance executives are currently undertaking some form of financial process improvement project. Two goals emerged: stronger...
Cheri Koehler
(Consultant at Roseryan)
Job interviews with controllers—whether you’re in the hot seat or the one asking the questions—are getting broader these days, as the role of the controller and...
John O'Rourke
(VP of Product Marketing at Host Analytics)
As of May 18th, 2016, the Department of Labor (DOL) finalized their new overtime regulations. It will extend the overtime pay protections for more than 4 million people in...
Anders Liu-Lindberg
(Regional Finance Business Partner at Maersk Line Northern Europe)
The idea that Finance should transform into an automated, digitised and value adding function has been around for years. Heck, I’ve written so many articles about it myself that...
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