Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics

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Hot topics for Corporate Controllers, CAOs and financial executives

Corporate Controllers & Chief Accounting Officers are challenged with identifying external and internal opportunities, driving growth strategy, and quickly adapting to changing regulation. These key stakeholders have identified critical areas (spotlights listed below) that contain specific opportunities and hurdles.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: The Finance Talent Crunch

The evolving talent landscape is creating opportunities and challenges for finance leaders as they try to develop the workforce of tomorrow.

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Check back frequently, as we dig deeper into each of the hot topics.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: AI Adoption Spotlight

As AI adoption accelerates across all companies and industries, finance leaders are working to ensure their functions aren’t left behind.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: Economy & Sustainability Spotlight

Financial leaders are actively assessing their organizations’ readiness for both economic uncertainties and the challenges of ESG reporting.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: Audit Committee Focus Areas

Audit committees face packed agendas and challenges as their responsibilities expand, with controllers and CAOs needing to educate their boards on priority topics and emerging concerns.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: Operating Model Spotlight

Finance operating models continue to adapt to changes in technology, talent, and the overall business environment.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: Cybersecurity Reporting Spotlight

Emerging regulations mean that bolstering a company’s cybersecurity capabilities is no longer an option, but a requirement.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: AI Spotlight

With new technologies such as AI poised to transform the business landscape, a strong data and analytics foundation is a necessary part of the modern finance organization.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: Accounting for Economic Uncertainty

From SEC filings to impairment, disclosures, and even talent strategies, the current economic climate has created several challenges for financial executives.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: Digital Transformation Spotlight

Transformation at many organizations is technology-focused, but controllers and CAOs are finding that much more needs to change.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: Talent Spotlight

Amid ongoing talk of a potential recession, may Controllers and Chief Accounting Officers are preparing for a potential economic slowdown by focusing in part on one major category: talent.

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Corporate Controller & CAO Hot Topics: ESG Spotlight

Controllers and Chief Accounting Officers have been largely receptive to and generally support setting climate standards but the SEC’s proposal, as it stands, raises a number of questions.

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