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Tag Archive for: Artificial Intelligence

AI Agents in Finance: What Should CFOs Actually Let Them Do?

by Sarah Schlott

There is a meaningful difference between AI helping with Finance and AI doing Finance. We are crossing it. Until fairly recently, most of my conversations about AI in Finance sounded something like this: Can it write the variance commentary? Can it summarize this report? Can it help with the forecast? Can it analyze this file? […]

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How to Measure AI ROI: A Practical Guide for CFOs and Finance Teams

by Sarah Schlott

Every company seems to be saving thousands of hours with AI. I would like to know where everyone is keeping them. Because apparently AI wrote the email, summarized the meeting, analyzed the data, drafted the presentation and saved Brenda six hours on Tuesday. Fantastic. What happened Wednesday? I ask because companies are getting very good […]

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AI in FP&A: Can You Trust an AI-Generated Financial Forecast?

by Sarah Schlott

I wouldn’t have written this article a few years ago. Mostly because nobody was asking me whether I trusted the financial forecast built by a robot. Finance has changed. Now AI can analyze historical results, identify patterns, generate baseline forecasts, flag anomalies, help build scenarios and explain variances. Some newer systems are moving toward something […]

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