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Finance
News, trends, and insights for finance leaders and professionals.
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9 Ways to Plan for the Changing World of Finance
To thrive in a competitive and global marketplace, you need exceptional financial forecasting processes and a finance team capable of orchestrating them.
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The Power of Continuous Planning for Retail CFOs
The age of continuous planning for retail CFOs is here, and it is the key to unlocking increased efficiency, lowering costs, and forging a positive path forward, even through disruption.
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Understanding the Basics: What Is Procurement?
企业意识到加强procurement, strategic sourcing, and supply chain management is critical to their success.
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Our Commitments to ESG at Workday
How a company approaches environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is more pressing than ever before. Here’s where we’re focused at Workday to help do our part and innovate in the area of ESG.
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Continuous Planning Catapults Finance Forward
As countless businesses have discovered, adopting a culture of continuous planning helps unlock an agile future.
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Why an Intelligent Data Foundation Is Key to Becoming Decision-Ready
How can you get to the underlying financial and operational data that reveals what’s really driving the business? Discover how to overcome common barriers and where to best invest so you can adapt to change as it happens.
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Finance as a Driver of Transformation: What CFOs Need to Enable Organizational Change
Technology savvy and analytics capabilities help finance leaders forge the strategic partnerships they’ll need to prepare their organizations for the future. Executives from Deloitte Consulting LLP and H&R Block discussed their journeys at a recent Fortune event.
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Workday Podcast: Transforming Finance in Finland During the Pandemic
In this episode of the Workday Podcast, Elizabeth Schauman, head of finance at Academic Work was joined by Karin Hagman, regional vice president, Nordics at Workday to discuss finance agility and looking to the future of the function beyond the pandemic.
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Workday Podcast: Transformative Events and Navigating Change
Kevin McDonald has guided media conglomerate The E.W. Scripps Company through more than 20 transformative events. In this episode, he shares lessons learned and practical tips for navigating mergers, IPOs, and more.
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Planning for a Sustainable Future: How Organizations Can Deliver Data-Driven ESG Results
Organizations dedicated to their role in the global movement toward sustainability have put responsible environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices at the forefront. Deloitte’s Rikki Stancich and Andrew Wood describe how to use Workday Adaptive Planning to assess ESG metrics, determine improvement goals, and report progress.
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To Plan Better, Close Smarter
A modern close process can accelerate business agility and create a frictionless, collaborative environment for accounting and financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
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These 2 Imperatives Will Help You Close the Acceleration Gap
The gap between the intensifying rate of change and an organization’s ability to keep up with it is a strategic problem with painful results. Here’s what’s required to close the gap.
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Accelerating the Digital Finance Journey: A Four-Step Framework for Value Creation
The enterprise management cloud can help organizations remove friction in their finance processes to achieve greater efficiency and add enterprise value. Workday's Barbara Larson lays out the process.
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CFOs Reveal Top Priorities for Future-Proofing Finance Teams
Workday’s latest CFO Indicator survey asked 267 CFOs around the globe about their plans and priorities for the next five years. Learn how those who were identified as “finance outperformers” are leading the way by investing in skills and technology for the future.
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Finance in a Digital World: Factory or Strategic Function?
Extracting insights from data is becoming more important for CFOs, as finance teams are expected to unlock value in an increasingly digitized world. Four CFOs describe their journeys at a recent Fortune event.
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How the C-Suite Shaped the PGA European Tour’s Digital Drive
The PGA European Tour’s chief financial officer, chief technology officer, and chief people officer discuss finance, IT, and HR transformation against the backdrop of a global pandemic.
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The Top 5 Questions CFOs Should Ask Themselves in 2022
Finance leaders helping to shepherd their companies toward an increasingly technology-enabled digital operating model are demanding more capabilities from their ERP solutions. Addressing five key questions can help enable a smooth transition.
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3 Ways Ralph Lauren Accelerates Procurement
The global sourcing leader at Ralph Lauren shared insights and best practices for driving high-performing procurement at our Conversations for a Changing World digital event.
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Planning for Volatility: Elements and Strategies CFOs Need to Succeed
CFOs at Broadridge, DocuSign, and Trivago have relied on their diverse professional experiences to lead during the pandemic-related uncertainty of the past few years. They spoke about their priorities during a recent Fortune virtual event.
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Why Finance Needs to Rethink the Reporting Process
With data visualization and real-time dashboards, CFOs and finance teams are able to better understand what their data is trying to tell them.
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Finance Leaders Discuss Why ESG Is an Imperative for Business Growth
How can companies “walk the talk” to create value for society and improve business outcomes by investing in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts? Barbara Larson, a finance leader at Workday, joined McKinsey & Company partner Giulia Siccardo and Ann Dennison, executive vice president and CFO at Nasdaq, to discuss this topic and more at Conversations for a Changing World.
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How Professional Services Automation Supports the Full Life Cycle of Client-Facing Projects
Discover how a professional services automation (PSA) platform can help services organizations better deliver on client projects and increase efficiency, insight, and customer satisfaction.
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What CFOs Need to Consider When Envisioning the Future of Finance
CFOs must take a forward-looking approach when thinking about data, talent, and technology for the finance function, according to experts from AICPA, Deloitte, and Workday.
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A Generational Shift: The CFO’s Role in Redefining the Future of Work
Finance leaders from Accenture, Cisco, Toyota North America, and Workday shared insights on how they’re thinking about the future of work at a recent event. That includes prioritizing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts and building stronger relationships with employees.
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Dynamic Forecasting: A North Star for Businesses in Uncertain Times
Dynamic forecasting can guide businesses through fluid markets and uncertain times. A recent report by Business Application Research Center (BARC), in collaboration with Workday, indicates businesses are starting to respond to the urgency to be more agile and are shifting to intelligent, real-time forecasting.
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Global Study: Retailers Excel at Organizational Agility
According to our latest global study, retail organizations are ahead of other sectors in understanding the importance of digital revenue and, more importantly, having the agility to act quickly on opportunities.
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Hospitality Industry Finance Leader Discusses Managing Risk and Agility During the Pandemic
副总裁尼尔Gribben会计和反面trol at hospitality and leisure company Belmond, met with Workday’s Tim Wakeford to discuss how finance has pushed forward with digital acceleration during the pandemic.
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How to Improve Profitability Analysis
Profitability analysis can drive decision-making and move the needle on future profits by answering key questions.
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How European Finance Leaders Are Preparing for a Post-Pandemic World
As businesses across Europe take the first tentative steps toward normality following the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention is now turning to how to prepare for the future. Finance leaders from Workday customer companies discuss resilience, digital transformation, and some of the lessons learned.
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Stout Drives Growth Through Digitization
Jon Leins, finance and accounting director at global investment bank and advisory firm Stout, explains why his team decided to replace more than 10 legacy systems with Workday in one big-bang deployment—and how its new enterprise management cloud is delivering game-changing efficiencies.
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4 Pillars of an Effective Supplier Management Program
Building out a supplier relationship management (SRM) program doesn’t have to be intimidating. Explore the four pillars of a successful SRM program and best practices for driving supplier performance.
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Drury Hotels Launches Holistic Digital Transformation
By combining a big-picture perspective of the company’s needs with best practices, Drury Hotels increased collaboration and built a digital foundation for the future. The hotel chain’s executives discuss retiring legacy applications, taking security seriously, and helping employees become even better at what they do.
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Workday Podcast: McKinsey Expert on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Reporting
Companies are increasingly being asked—and expected—to report on progress against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations. Giulia Siccardo, associate partner at McKinsey and Company, joins the Workday Podcast to discuss trends in ESG, the evolving need to report on it, and what it means for C-suite leaders.
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What Is an ERP System, and Why Workday Is Different
Companies must think beyond a “lift and shift” of their current ERP system to the cloud. Instead, they must uplift and re-shift their systems and processes to align with achieving business goals in the digital age. That’s why Workday, as an enterprise management cloud solution, is different.
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How Continuous Recalibration Helps Your Business Avoid the Acceleration Gap
现在业务的步伐更快companies plan for life after COVID-19. What's trending today becomes tomorrow’s disruption—and tomorrow’s disruption will eventually define a new way of working.
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Coleman Worldwide Moving Enables Better Decision Making
A provider of local, long distance, and international moving services since 1914, Coleman Worldwide Moving is furthering its financial transformation with data reporting and analytics that drive strategic decision making. Alex Chance from Coleman recently shared insights on creating a holistic picture of the company’s financial performance.
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Workday Podcast: CFOs and CHROs Expect Growth Through Adversity
Tom Stewart, chief knowledge officer at AchieveNEXT, discusses key insights from the global “2021 CFO-CHRO Sentiment Study,” including what’s top of mind for finance and people leaders in the coming year.
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Charting the Path to Modern Planning
For a growing number of successful enterprises, becoming more adaptable has meant charting a path to modern planning.
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Bank of America CEO Highlights the Competitive Advantages of ESG Principles
Although environmental, social, and governance issues aren’t simple, Brian Moynihan advised CFOs in a recent Fortune event to approach ESG metrics in a way that is straightforward, calculable, and deliverable.
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Machine Learning and the Future of Intelligent Planning
The pace of change was accelerating even before businesses were rocked by the pandemic. Change will remain a fixture long after pandemic disruption is over.
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Retail & Hospitality Industry Summit: Moving Ahead With Agility and Analytics
Business leaders in the retail and hospitality industries at a recent Workday summit talk about how they’re finding a path forward that looks less like surviving and more like thriving.
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Workday Podcast: How CSA Group Is Enabling Finance Digital Acceleration
CSA Group set out to digitize its financials and reporting processes and unlock new levels of productivity. Hitesh Laxman, director, financial process improvement at CSA Group, and Lynn Hurley, senior vice president, finance consulting, Collaborative Solutions, share learnings from the professional services company’s digital transformation journey.
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What Is xP&A?
Gartner gave it a name, but the concept of Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) isn't new. Learn more about xP&A and what it means for your enterprise.
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The Age of Agility Demands You Lose That Outdated ERP System
The challenge for many CFOs is that the technologies and processes they currently have in place for planning may actually hinder their efforts to achieve agility.
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How Financial Services Industry CFOs Can Better Adapt to Change
再发生一次又一次的转变。在一个没有成功n ever-changing business environment, financial services industry CFOs must drive better decision making and flexibility by uniting operational and financial data in an enterprise management cloud.
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Why Both Technology and Soft Skills Are Now Crucial for CFOs
The evolving role of the CFO means that rising finance leaders must now be fluent in technology and human relationships. Panelists at a Fortune virtual conversation shared their unique approaches to leadership.
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CFOs Expect Robust Growth Over the Next Year, Look to Meet Challenges
Finance leaders say they’re bullish on their companies, and want to improve environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting and diversity and inclusion efforts, according to PwC’s latest Pulse Survey.
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Why CFOs Should Expect More Than Speed From Their Cloud Provider
CFOs need a cloud provider that helps them quickly close their books and report results. Yet they also should be provided with the needed insights to be able to clearly articulate their strategic vision and discuss future growth opportunities. Read our Q&A with Terrance Wampler, general manager, Workday Financial Management.
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How Scenario Planning Future-Proofs Finance
Understanding a company’s key variables and how to react to different outcomes can help leaders respond to future challenges—and succeed in turbulent times.
