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Leaders Rate Talent Turnover as a Top Risk. Here’s How AI Could Improve Business Continuity. Leaders across industries now rank talent shortages and turnover as a top organizational risk. In this article, we are going to explore how this type of risk affects Finance teams, in particular, and how new AI Finance tools can address the risk long term. A U.S. Bank survey of 1,453 board members and C-suite executives found that 40% of finance leaders identify talent shortages as a critical threat...

Cash Flow Forecasting The Forecaster - Step 4 This is the fourth article in the 4-part series on how to leverage AI to build a 13 week cash flow forecasting for small and medium businesses. This is part 4 of the series, Part 1 covered The Mapper, how AI translates between how departments think about money and how a forecast needs to see it. Part 2 covered The Data Operator, the Monday workhorse that turns five raw files into a populated 13-week model. This is the payoff where you see the Cash...

Cash Flow Forecasting The Data Operator - Step 3 This is the third article in the 4-part series on how to leverage AI to build a 13 week cash flow forecasting for small and medium businesses. In Part 2, we talked about The Mapper that translates how different departments think about money and how a forecast model needs to see it. Now we move to the next step of populating the data from the various inputs (aka departments) into the Cash Flow Forecasting spreadsheet to create that dread Cash...

Cash Flow Forecasting The Mapper - Step 1 This is the second article in the 4-part series on how to leverage AI to build a 13 week cash flow forecasting for small and medium businesses. This is The Mapper - Step 1 of the 3 of creating the Cash Flow Forecasting spreadsheet Here we deep dive into the first step of creating an AI agent that maps the inputs and outputs of your Cash Flow Forecast. The Mapping Problem Is Harder Than It Sounds The raw data is a patchwork of translations. Every...

Cash Flow Forecasting for SMBs Overview - The Monday Morning Blues This is the first article in our second 4-part series on how to leverage AI to build a 13 week cash flow forecast for small and medium businesses. Even before you have had your morning coffee. There is a meeting on Thursday and The CFO report needs to be done by Wednesday. As a starting point you have an AR aging report that looks a little different from the week before because someone in operations added a column into the...

Last month our friend and colleague Andreas Welsch debuted his newest book, "The Human Agentic AI Edge," and its already hit the Amazon Best Seller List. We asked Andreas to share one of his recent articles with our newsletter. One major challenge for AI leaders right now is how to translate successful experiments from first adopters into company-wide impact. Andreas tackles this in this article from his The AI Memo newsletter. Enjoy and follow Andreas on his substack for more excellent...