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Would you like to take a fascinating journey through the minds of control-obsessed technical accountants building foundational processes? Let’s walk through a discussion we had with our Development team. We did our best not to bury them in minutiae, but what began as a straightforward conversation about payment posting took a few turns through the…
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Am I a Luddite for not integrating our payroll and financial systems? We’re working on a NetSuite go-live for January. An opportunity to eliminate an Excel interim upload to the financial system will save five minutes every two weeks and make it less prone to manual error. Great. Until something changes in either system. Then…
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I read a16z’s “You Need a New CFO.” It was actually pretty good. The article describes how the CFO’s job has changed: from keeping the books, to raising capital, to planning and partnering with the business. Now, the authors say, AI is changing the role again. It can assemble data more easily, do more of…
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When your voice is heard, and the great ideas you’ve dreamed and written about crawl into a glimmer of daylight, a spark of adrenaline ignites. The work expands. Brilliant developers listen, and the next day there are working prototypes. We’re debating reasoning, correcting ideas and perspectives, designing controls—financial, regulatory, business, and more—in a new world…
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Years ago, William Safire wrote a weekly article in the Sunday New York Times Magazine called “On Language.” I loved it. He explored the origins of words and phrases. How they entered the language; how their meanings changed; how people used them correctly, incorrectly and sometimes differently enough that the incorrect use eventually became correct. The column…
