After The Audit: Elevate Your Accounting and Finance Impact
After The Audit: Elevate Your Accounting and Finance Impact
As companies emerge from the latest audit cycle, chief financial officers (CFOs) should apply their interconnected expertise, foresight, and responsiveness to accelerate their accounting and finance teams and shape strategies in today’s constrained landscape. Riveron’s cross-functional team partners with the Office of the CFO to optimize operations and proactively respond to ever-changing stakeholder needs.
Looking beyond the most pressing demands of audit season, now is the time to make an impact across four focus areas:
Optimize Accounting and Finance Operations
Manage Risks and Controls
Strengthen ESG and Sustainability Approaches
Prepare for Strategic Changes
Optimize accounting and finance operations
Guide changes to work practices, increase automation, and optimize existing technologies to gain efficiencies and address workforce constraints.
- Explore expert insights on how CFOs can make strides through technology enablement and automation, and read a company’s success story on overhauling order-to-cash processes.
- Related topics: Accounting & Finance Ops | Finance Transformation | Financial Close & CPM
Manage risks and controls
Bolster controls to proactively manage risks and respond to known deficiencies.
- Explore expert insights on addressing risk amid change events and why internal controls matter for private companies. Plus, read our expert guide to the top risk management trends that matter in the year ahead.
- Related topics: Governance, Risk & Compliance | Internal Control Remediation
- Download our guide to the trends shaping your control environment
Strengthen ESG and sustainability approaches
Contend with the latest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and stakeholder concerns, reporting approaches, and climate risk regulations.
- Explore expert insights including a CFO forum recap on ESG and sustainability strategies, considerations for the move to mandatory ESG reporting, and more.
- Related topics: Climate Risk | ESG
Prepare for strategic changes
Anticipate major strategic initiatives (such as M&A, carve-outs, or workforce changes) and the repercussions from accounting to communications to operations.
- Explore expert insights including accounting and finance strategies for newly acquired companies, CFOs’ cash flow and planning considerations, and our latest success stories.
- Related topics: Carve-outs & Divestitures | Financial Planning & Analysis | Investor Relations
Hear what CFOs are saying
“Automation can make a big difference for the finance department….”
“…in each of your employee bases, there are people who are wildly passionate about ESG, and … with a perspective that you might need.”
“We’re trying to use the systems we have and use them more fully….”
Riveron CFO Forum participants – read the insights
“Thinking about the macroeconomic environment… it’s becoming much more mainstream —even for accountants. It’s important to become more versed in that language —and in the risks and controls that are needed— regardless of what industry you’re in.”
Finance leader Kandis Thompson – watch the full video
Featured Insights
Insights
A Quick Guide to The Trends Shaping Your Control Environment
Today’s CFOs, internal audit teams, and compliance professionals are rethinking risks to make an impact beyond the most pressing demands of audit season.
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How CFOs Can Do More With Less Using the Technology You Already Have
Savvy CFOs and business leaders are taking action to recalibrate their existing technologies, streamline accounting and finance processes, enable an easier audit cycle, and make a lasting impact.
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How to Address Risk and Internal Controls in Business Combinations
Riveron describes three tactics for addressing risk and internal controls when a merger reshapes your business.
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CFOs Share Top Concerns – Part 3: ESG Strategies
Today’s financial executives are seeking ways to differentiate their organizations via opportunities anchored to ESG and sustainability.
Webinars
Webinar: Rethinking Risk: The Trends Shaping Your Control Environment
This webinar outlined current trends and strategies for guiding your team’s risk management program to accelerate success and make an impact beyond the most pressing demands of audit season.
Success Stories
Overhauling Order-to-Cash and Enabling Automation for a Retail Technology Company
Through unified master data, technology advisory, and automated accounting processes, a company transformed its order-to-cash practices and enabled a better customer experience.
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Minding the Move to Mandatory ESG Reporting
A proactive path is essential for success as ESG reporting moves from voluntary to mandatory, impacting audit cycles, risk management, and more.
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How CFOs Can Take Strides with Technology: Expert Interview
In this interview series, Riveron explores the key priorities of CFOs and the technology-backed approaches that can improve organizations.
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Risks Abound: The Current State of Internal Controls
Several public and private companies shared their current pulse on managing risk and ensuring internal controls.
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Why and How to Invest in an Investor Day for Maximum ROI
Any Investor Day worth doing is worth doing right. Here’s a game plan to help you work through the details.