Overview
In an environment where volatility is a given, the role of the CFO has changed. From accountant to chief value architect, today’s CFO provides the means, tools and acumen to sow new opportunities for growth. All while managing complexity.
CAPABILITIES
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Enterprise value targeting
Providing a multi-dimensional benchmarking capability to identify key opportunities and to inform strategic direction -
Digital finance
For the office of the CFO, this means creating insights from the increasing volumes of data flowing across the enterprise. -
Integrated operating model
The next generation of shared services will require transforming and innovating business services and moving from a cost-reduction to a business-outcome focus.
Latest Thinking
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Digital value or digital vanity?
When companies zero base digital they understand benefits from digital investments. Read the Accenture Strategy point of view. -
Analytics: Getting out of the starting blocks quickly
Ideas at the intersection of business & technology. -
Three things every finance leader should do to accelerate their digital agenda
Read this BizTech Byte addressing how finance leaders can accelerate their digital agenda. -
The activist CFO—an opportunity, not a threat
Seven fundamental elements that the activist CFO focuses on to deliver value to investors -
Zeroing out the past
Zero-based organization designs the right operating model needed to fuel growth. Read Accenture report for more. -
The digital finance moonshot
Improve finance effectiveness and deliver better enterprise performance -
CFOs are the new digital apostles
Trailblazers move beyond piecemeal apps to enterprise-wide digital deployment. -
Breaking through the complexity barrier
Ruthlessly challenge the status quo—build an integrated operating model -
CFOs: The digital kingdom begs for a strategic ruler
CFOs who move beyond a process mindset are well positioned to reap results with digital finance. -
Go fast, scale up…or go home: The new CFO growth agenda
CFOs must move past their cost management comfort zone to keep up in the new growth environment. -
From reporting the past to architecting the future: Meet the Finance 2020 workforce
Digital technologies are rapidly reinventing finance—and the workforce will never be the same. -
Old methods deliver old results
Use Design Thinking and Prime Value Chain analysis to simplify experiences and drive outcomes. -
CFO reality check: Good intentions in cost management are not good enough
Cost reduction is key, but as CFOs pivot to growth, many risk leaving the cost flank exposed. -
Where’s your digital business DNA? In your advanced shared services model
With advanced shared services, the building blocks to a digital business future are in place. -
Consumerization. Advanced robotics. Specialized talent.
Learn why you need these core components of integrated business services models—and how to build them. -
Is your shared services organization heading for extinction?
It could be, if it’s not fully integrated and focused on customer outcomes.
Client Case Studies
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Global manufacturer
Finance transformation with business analytics helps global manufacturer scale its finance capabilities to facilitate rapid growth. -
Orkla
Accenture helps Orkla Confectionery & Snacks Sweden to strengthen enterprise performance management. -
Major South East Asia publisher
Rolling out an EPM roadmap to drive budgeting efficiency and effectiveness
Leadership
"Leveraging the power of a digitalized finance function and considering the wider growth agenda, CFOs are positioned to play a critical role in the digitalization of their companies."
CHRISTIAN CAMPAGNA
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