The Buzz 1: The early development of accounting was closely related to developments in writing, counting, and money.

The Buzz: “FP&A [financial planning and analysis] used to hold all the cards; they had all the data at their fingertips. Nowadays, valuable data resides across the business. It’s a battle to find out who has the best data, much less what this data is.

The Buzz 1: “The subscription economy is not new.

The Buzz 1: “AI will optimize or transform ‘nearly every activity in finance.’” (Craig Wilton, Gartner, quoted at www.cfodive.

The Buzz: “I’m not paid or evaluated on the accuracy of my crystal-ball predictions.

The Buzz 1: “Indirect attacks against weak links in the supply chain now account for 40 percent of security breaches.” (Accenture Security / Third State of Cyber Resilience Report, www.ironnet.

The Buzz: “As companies craft their responses to the COVID-19 crisis, CFOs are in the thick of the action.