I recently moderated the CFO Tech Automation Challenge at the CFO Leadership Council Fall Conference.

These aren’t sophisticated. They’re the same questions you’d ask about a facilities lease, which is precisely the point — the problem with AI spend isn’t…

Someone will bring you a business case this quarter that compares a subscription price against a number of hours saved. The subscription is real.

What did your company spend on AI last year? Not the flagship project. The total. Most CFOs I ask can’t answer within 30%, and every time I’ve gone looking,…

Ask this in your next AI steering committee and watch what happens. The room goes quiet. Not because anyone is hiding something — because nobody built the…

You would never approve a $2 million capital request because “the team really likes it.” That is roughly the standard AI spend is being held to right now.

For most of the past decade, "finance transformation" was something a CFO did in response to an event: a merger, an ERP migration,8 a change in ownership.

The CFO role is now rapidly evolving into a leadership role grounded in strategy, technology, and enterprise influence.

AI automation is changing fast, moving finance teams from manual, error-prone processes to intelligent, scalable, and compliance-ready operations.

Automation is making big changes in the way businesses operate, allowing companies to streamline processes, reduce manual workloads, and improve accuracy.

Many pundits are suggesting that technology will be a good thing when it comes to the accounting field.

As a CFO doing a million things, I constantly aim to streamline processes and cut down manual workloads.

As a software CFO, the mandate is to efficiently grow and increase the organization's net dollar retention rate.