Understanding the link between risk and finance
You might have an opinion about how to approach uncertainty, but there’s a good chance you need to…
Financial Cycle Time: How fast is your company relative to the market?
Examining the Financial Cycle Time of the world’s most agile companies can reveal lessons about how they maximize…
Will India’s demonetization plan work out?
Dissecting a controversial move. At around 8pm Indian Standard Time on the 8th of November 2016, Indian Prime…
Taking the mystery out of profit measurement
If members of your organization don’t understand how you measure profits, they won’t be able to contribute as…
An organization’s biggest assets are its people
Contrary to the long-held opinion of financial managers, hiring great people should be viewed as an asset, not…
How megatrends shape the financial industry
Innovation and developments in the financial industry are shaped by global megatrends in demographics, economics, and resources. Those…
Why learning buzzwords is the key to understanding financial performance
If you really want to understand financial performance, you must first learn the specialized language that describes it….
The cashless future is already here
Paper cash is on its way out. Cashless payments are already the norm in many countries all over…
What Financial Cycle Time shows about a company’s disruptive power
Financial Cycle Time (FCT) expresses the one thing that the world’s best disruptors have in common: the ability…
The hidden ways that financial models affect corporate culture
High- and low-margin companies don’t just have opposite approaches to profit-making; they also often have deep differences in company…
Finance managers: end the acronym obsession
Financial professionals who insist on using complicated industry jargon make the entire field inaccessible. I have become…
Meet the female entrepreneurs using finance to build communities
Rosanna Ramos-Velita is a new kind of financial leader using her industry expertise to empower women and develop…
