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If you invest in stock, you would know that most of a company’s value is based on future expectations of the company. All you need to do is not disappoint these expectations. However, how do you influence the expectations and ensure you don’t disappoint? We will discuss your company’s future expectations as the fourth and final driver of shareholder value creation in this week's episode of #FinanceMaster

No one cares about the company’s balance sheet but Finance. That’s a shame because all value creation in a company passes through the balance sheet before it is distributed to company shareholders. That’s why we also need to bring this to the attention of decision makers. We should ensure our assets are highly utilized, that we collect our money and pay our bills efficiently, and that we have the optional funding structure. In this week’s episode of the #FinanceMaster Show, we will show you how you can drive asset efficiency and create value through your balance sheet.

The answer is “No one!” Sure, finance professionals don’t always execute cost savings programs, but they’re often tasked with finding efficiencies, facilitating decision-making, and following up to see if savings are realized. Further, they conduct benchmarking and spread good ideas across the company. Join the next episode of the #FinanceMaster 

Who’s in charge of growth in your company? Most would probably say it’s the Chief Commercial Officer (or similar position). No one would argue that Finance holds this responsibility. That’s entirely fair. However, it shouldn’t stop finance professionals from being part of the growth conversation. In fact, we would argue that Finance plays a critical role in driving growth. This week’s show will show you how Finance can drive growth.

Is the finance function a cost center or a value driver? This is a fundamental question with a complex answer. If you ask a random person in a company, they would like to say, “cost center,” and that has been the stereotype for ages. However, for the past twenty years, there’s been a movement to try and create a different narrative. In this first episode in a new series about how finance professionals can drive value creation we discuss this new narrative. Join us to learn more about how to drive value creation through our practical approaches and experiences. Will we see you there?

Think ten years into the future. What will it be like to work in the finance function? There are no guarantees, but it will likely be different from today. How can we recognize these changes? That’s the tricky question we set out to answer in this week’s show. It’s the final episode in our Finance 2035 series, where we have predicted the future of the finance function in 2035. In this week's episode, we talk about the culture of the finance function in 2035.

What happens when artificial intelligence can autonomously manage the finance function? Will it be the end of the finance professional as we know it? The answer is “Yes!”. That’s probably scary to some, but it may not be as bad as you think. In this week’s #FinanceMaster Show we break it down for you. What’s important to the younger part of the workforce today? Making an impact. Do most finance professionals feel like they’re making a difference today? Too often, that’s not the case. Instead, they feel overwhelmed by busy work and barely have time to complete their finance processes. Having time to spend with business leaders? That’s slim to none. There’s a big opportunity to change things around so join the show and take part in the discussion…

No one can predict what technology will be available in 2035. The best way to make such a prediction is to start with what’s available today and extrapolate those capabilities. Next, we can look at emerging technologies available today but not used on a large scale. Finally, we can consider technologies currently being built or imagined and guess how they could be used in the future. We will do all that in this week’s show as we explore the Finance tech stack of the future.

We can assume some basic principles will apply even further into the future. One of these is that there’s a finance function to serve a business. What the services are and how they’re delivered, though, is constantly evolving. In this week’s show we will look more closely at the finance function value chain and what service business leaders can expect to receive from finance in the future. We will outline a Service Delivery Model and then get more specific about how it will look in the future. A service delivery model outlines how a function delivers its services. It specifies process characteristics and contact points with the business. Tune in to learn more about the Finance Service Delivery Model of the future…

How does an AI-first finance function operate? This is THE key question to answer when trying to predict how the finance function will look in 2035. In this week’s show, we will start making more granular predictions to draw a concrete picture of how we see the finance function will operate in 2035. Listen to this week's #FinanceMaster Show to share your predictions and help us build a finance function for the future.