Modern Finance

The Top 3 Things You Need to Know To Plan for Today and Tomorrow

March 31, 2020

Seize today to build tomorrow with a business continuity plan that includes other processes to let you build agility into your finance functions.

Data and Tech

Vena Release Powers Faster Planning and Reporting for Finance Teams

March 04, 2020

Vena's latest product release has added key functionality to the platform to make it even easier for your finance team to report on

Data and Tech

4 Calls to Action Every FP&A Team Should Use in Evaluating Technology

September 23, 2019

By examining research from BPM Partners, Vena looks at 4 key insights that define trends playing out within finance teams today. Learn more here.

Executive Perspective

Why CFOs Are Taking a Good, Hard Look at Software Ease of Use

April 19, 2019

Vena's Don Mal explores why there's no point investing in enterprise software that staff avoid like the plague. Take an inside look at the evolution ...

Modern Finance

This Must Be Just like Living in (Hacker) Paradise: Lessons Learned Working Remotely

March 27, 2019

Toronto software developer Mustafa Haddara spent 6 weeks working from Montevideo, Uruguay. See what made remote work succeed for him and his team.

Executive Perspective

Are You an Operational or Strategic CFO? A 6-Point Checklist

July 27, 2017

Recognize the increasingly strategic nature of their roles, but getting there is easier said than done. Review these six traits to see where you ...

Strategy and Operations

What Makes KPIs Meaningful: A Holistic Look

March 29, 2017

Even if you're investing in cloud-based tools to improve your reporting or analytics, the KPIs you look at are likely based solely on your actual ...

Strategy and Operations

The Bright Side of All Those Finance Department Budget Cuts

March 23, 2017

Treating the budget as a ritual will no longer be an option. It will become something that rallies parts of the organization together for a common ...

Data and Tech

Defying (Data) Gravity

March 02, 2017

"Data gravity," suggests the number of services and applications grows parallel to the volume of information being managed by a particular ...

Strategy and Operations

How Cumming Cut their Reporting Cycle from 4 Weeks to 1 Day

February 27, 2017

Learn how Cummings Cut its reporting cycle from 4 weeks to 1 day by producing reports same day of the financial close, implementing business ...

Executive Perspective

A CFO's Guide to Working with the Millennial Generation

February 22, 2017

Future of the finance department may depend on how well leaders navigate potential generation gaps and best to motivate and coach younger ...

Executive Perspective

Why Dashboards Are Becoming A Major CFO Priority

August 20, 2016

Finance professionals starting to take into account KPIs as the starting point for analysis, rather than set-it-and-forget-it reporting approach.