Performance management

Africa’s finance leaders navigate COVID-19 effects

Finance leaders across the continent are prioritising cash management and acknowledge the need to fast-track digital transformation efforts.

P&G Nigeria CFO: Steering Africa’s business recovery

Finance teams need to consider macroeconomic vulnerabilities and consumers’ lower purchasing power in planning for recovery.

Analysing future cash flow in Excel

How businesses can calculate how much cash they really need today to not run out tomorrow.

5 priorities for finance leaders over the coming months

China’s finance leaders are focused on these key areas as they chart the path ahead.

Leading the recovery: An Asian SME perspective

Hong Kong’s already damaged economy is opening for business, with SMEs poised to take a leading role.

FP&A priorities during the COVID-19 crisis

In this time of incredible uncertainty, finance can play a key role in framing the potential impact of COVID-19 and in developing mitigation plans.

MESANA finance leaders’ COVID-19 crisis insights

CIMA panel members in the Middle East and South Asia share ideas and actions underway in response to the impacts of the coronavirus.

COVID-19: 5 insights from European finance leaders

Finance leaders across Europe shared their crisis insights on financial and nonfinancial planning, supply chains, and the opportunities to learn.

How CFOs can create a COVID-19 crisis war room

Ankur Agrawal, McKinsey partner and co-author of "The CFO's Role in Helping Companies Navigate the Coronavirus Crisis", offers tips and insights on how CFOs can most successfully steer their organisations through the crisis.

Scenario planning and the COVID-19 crisis

In this time of incredible uncertainty, here are tips on how scenario planning can provide key insights.

Rooting out forced labour from supply chains

CFOs and finance departments have a significant role to play in preventing and detecting forced labour in their supply chains.

Using XBRL and big data to improve decision-making

A subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Corporation put its data to work through a familiar platform and made big improvements to its budgeting and risk management.

How China’s slowdown may impact African companies

The economic impact of the coronavirus will be severe for many African economies.

Steering your budget amid coronavirus uncertainty

A forecasting and budgeting expert describes the forward-looking ways the finance function can help organisations better weather the coronavirus storm.

Finance’s crisis role in managing supply chain risk

Taking steps to assess, protect, and where appropriate reconfigure supply chains can help minimise disruption from the spread of the coronavirus.

Video: US airlines ditch 2020 forecasts

US airlines are suspending their outlooks and cutting flights to combat the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, and some CEOs are cutting their pay.

If the coronavirus outbreak disrupts your budget

Here are three areas you should consider as business interruptions due to the spread of the coronavirus send your 2020 plans to the bin.

Supply chain tips amid the coronavirus outbreak

Companies should assess and diversify their sourcing for materials and products.

What I learned turning around a failing business

A finance business partner employed these strategies to reverse the course of a loss-making operation.

Managing labour shortages key for factories amid coronavirus

Manufacturers in China face labour shortages and logistical challenges that may take months to resolve.

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