CFO Dive

Editorial Note: Paula Comings is a managing director at Minneapolis, Minnesota-based U.S. Bank. Views are the author’s own. U.S. firms that transact globally have been shaken by a renewed spike in currency volatility driven by geopolitical tensions, tariff uncertainty and uneven monetary policy signals. CFOs and treasurers are now reassessing pricing, funding and hedging decisions as the U.S. dollar rebounds amid a flight to safety.

For most CFOs, benefits are an obligatory cost of doing business—and now more than ever, rising healthcare costs are putting real pressure on the bottom line. But what if by adopting a shift in perspective, CFOs could capture cost savings and also transform these programs into consequential levers of workforce composition, productivity, and risk?

Editor’s note: Josh Schauer is the CFO of Raleigh, North Carolina-based insightsoftware, a financial reporting software provider that also advises finance and accounting professionals on how to use AI. The views are the author’s own. Finance is at an inflection point. AI is reshaping how organizations plan, report, and make critical business decisions. Yet while most finance teams acknowledge AI’s potential impact, only 39% report confidence actually using the technology.

Editor’s note: Manish Vrishaketu is chief customer and operations officer at Foster City, California-based Tipalti, an AI-powered finance automation platform. Views are the author’s own. The CFO’s job is no longer just about finance; it is increasingly about foresight. In nearly every discussion I have with CFOs and finance leaders more broadly, the same theme emerges: their job is fundamentally different than what it was just two years ago.

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) general-purpose M8i and M8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency. These instances deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud.

Artificial intelligence abuses and fraudulent claims involving undistributed long-term capital gains are two new additions to the Internal Revenue Service's annual "dirty dozen" list of tax frauds and scams that threaten businesses and individuals. Since at least 2002 the IRS has published a list warning of 12 illegal tax scams intended to defraud the IRS or steal money and data from unsuspecting taxpayers.

Data and AI upskilling efforts are emerging as a key driver of ROI on AI investments, according to a DataCamp study published Thursday. The company commissioned YouGov to survey more than 500 U.S. and UK business leaders for the report. Just over 1 in 5 leaders report a significant positive ROI from AI investments, compared with 42% among organizations with mature data and AI literacy upskilling efforts underway, the report found.

Siqi Chen is the CEO of Runway, a finance software company based in San Francisco. Views are the author’s own. Everyone wants AI magic. Few want to do the data work that makes it possible. That’s why so many AI initiatives fail. The algorithms are rarely the problem; preparation is typically where the breakdown is.

When it comes to payment services, there's a key difference between a transactional vendor and a strategic partner. But actually what separates the two? Across recent discussions with Adyen customers in multiple industries, four themes came up again and again: transparency, speed, strategic thinking, and ongoing communication. Learn how these foundations define strong payments partnerships, and how Adyen brings them to life.

Vendor onboarding is the hidden AP bottleneck Vendor onboarding rarely shows up as a formal top priority for accounts payable (AP) teams. But in practice, it sets the pace for everything downstream: invoice processing speed, payment timeliness, vendor satisfaction, and even fraud exposure. For mid-market NetSuite teams processing 200+ invoices per month, vendor setup often stretches into weeks of back-and-forth across email, spreadsheets, PDFs, and disconnected forms.