AchieveNEXT has released its 2021 Mid-Year Update to CFO-CHRO Sentiment Report . The report highlights a significant uptick in economic confidence compared to January, 2021 and even more so when juxtaposed against the same period in 2020. Survey analysis details the excitement finance and HR...
Bryan Lapidus is the Director of the FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) Practice at the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP). AFP is a professional society committed to advancing the success of treasury and finance members and their organizations. In addition to his FP&A...
Tom Stewart and Doug Farren are Directors at the National Center for the Middle Market, the leading source for knowledge, leadership, and research on mid-sized companies. Together, they have interviewed thousands of successful entrepreneurs, investors, and executives from middle market...
Jennifer Yousem is the Founder of I Heart EBITDA, an agency dedicated to translating finance into a digestible language for midmarket and emerging enterprises. After beginning her career in equity research, Jennifer transitioned to corporate finance, where she worked with countless CEOs at...
Introduction As Peter Drucker once said, “ you can’t manage what you can’t measure .” Establishing priority goals and objectives is only half the battle – stakeholder accountability is essential to delivering outcomes on plan, and regular business reviews are a proven method to measure...
While nearly 3/4 of the finance leaders who participated in the 2019 CFO Alliance Sentiment Study have committed their enterprises to increased top line revenue this year, more than 45% of them also note that this will be their enterprise's greatest challenge. This means that sales &...