Many CFOs continue to equate strong audit outcomes with effective fraud containment. In modern business environments, however, transactions move faster and approvals are increasingly distributed, meaning exposure is often identified only after financial scams and frauds have already occurred.
This delayed discovery is evident across organizations of all sizes. According to the 2025 Association of
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How Integrated Bookkeeping and Automation Power Real Estate Growth
Rapid turnover, multi-entity structures, and rising compliance demands are putting significant strain on the finance teams of real estate companies that still rely on manual, fragmented processes. These pressures surface as data gaps, slower reporting cycles, and limited clarity into critical indicators such as occupancy trends, delinquencies, and property-by-property performance. A recent Deloitte survey found
The Real-time Record-to-Report Transformation for Continuous Close
Finance leaders deal with two timelines at the same time. A business-focused timeline that runs on daily signals: shifts in pricing and demand, disruptions in supply, and cash movements that do not wait for the calendar. And then there is the month-end timeline, which is the most reliable financial view of performance. This was an
How AI in Legal Document Review Brings Stability to High-Volume Evidence Workflows
A medical record of nearly two hundred pages reached the attorney’s desk during the early intake stage of the matter. It came in multiple formats—scanned sheets, handwritten notes, imaging summaries, and several incomplete pages merged without any index or sequence. The document was technically complete but difficult to review. Nothing guided the attorney from one
Beyond Compliance: How Strategic Tax Planning Drives Competitive Advantage
Tax planning has quietly shifted from a back-office compliance task to a front-line driver of business strategy. Today, it is shaping how organizations free up capital, strengthen tax reporting, and fund innovation to stay resilient in an increasingly volatile global economy.
For CPA firms, this evolution opens up a new mandate. Compliance work will be
From Automation to Intelligence: Trends Shaping the Finance Function in 2025 and Beyond
Finance leaders today navigate a complex, high-stakes environment where expectations of speed, scale, and adaptability are rising faster than capacity. They are driving digital transformation in the finance function and scaling operations at a time of limited resources and rising costs of modernization.
Added to these are sector-specific imperatives, such as an insurance CFO’s priority
Building F&A Teams that Amplify Human-AI Collaboration
Researchers at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and MIT Sloan recently proved what experts have been postulating: AI augments human capabilities. The study, Human + AI in Accounting: Early Evidence from the Field, examined hundreds of thousands of transactions from 79 small and medium-sized companies that used Generative AI (Gen AI) in accounting.
How Redesigning Workflow Automation with Agentic AI Needs a Human Trust Layer
When Agentic AI entered enterprise conversations, finance leaders saw it as the next decisive leap in automation. It promised to close the distance between analysis and execution and strengthen agentic AI workflow automation by reconciling ledgers, detecting anomalies, and completing audits without human direction. For several quarters, CFOs and transformation heads across industries endorsed it
Efficiency vs. Effectiveness: How AI is Reshaping Standard and Specialty Insurance
Insurance has never been about certainties; it’s always been about adapting to uncertainty. What’s changed today isn’t the nature of risk, but the pace at which it evolves. Economic volatility, behavioral shifts, geopolitical tensions, and technological disruptions aren’t isolated events—they compound and reshape exposures in real time.
Underwriting models built for stability and periodic reassessment
The Legal Profession Isn’t Being Disrupted; It’s Being Enabled
A lawyer at a midsize U.S. firm recently used an AI tool to review over 400 pages of regulatory contracts in under two hours—a task that once consumed several days. The result? Less time lost to manual review, more time focused on strategic client guidance. This isn’t a glimpse of the future. It’s the now.