How finance can become the next frontier to champion sustainability in business

whitePaper | May 16, 2023

Intercompany financial management (IFM) is a discipline for structuring and handling transactions within a corporation and between its legal entities designed to maximize staff efficiency and accounting accuracy while optimizing tax exposure, minimizing tax leakage, and ensuring consistent tax and regulatory compliance. According to Ventana Research, by 2025, one-half of large enterprises will have implemented IFM to achieve tax, risk management, and financial close benefits.

whitePaper | November 20, 2019

Here’s to the advisors who empower the world to invest fearlessly. You’re the real heroes, and that’s why we believe the financial advisor is someone worth betting on deep into the future. Thank you— we couldn’t have built this movement without you.

whitePaper | October 25, 2022

Financial institutions’ pre-pandemic investments in technology and the increased adoption by the public of online banking services helped banks and credit unions continue serving and, in some cases, expand their reach of customers. However, accelerated technology adoption and institutions’ growing reliance on third-party partners amplify the importance of cybersecurity measures for protecting private data, financial assets, and systems.

whitePaper | May 24, 2022

Organizations experience pressures to finance growth strategies and improve their companies’ bottom lines while labor costs rise and global inflation soars. The cost of doing business is pinching profit margins across all industries. At the same time, changing customer behaviors and expectations force new business models to emerge.

whitePaper | April 14, 2023

A Chief Financial Officer is central to the success of any organization. So any changes to that role, especially if those changes are being driven by broader trends impacting the function of the CFO across multiple industries and operational models, are important to recognize and understand.

whitePaper | September 26, 2022

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