October 2021 - Strategic Finance

Is Your Finance Function Agile?

Employing Agile approach to project management and operational delivery can help the finance function to increase efficiency.

The CFO Playbook

Advanced technology and business model innovation can help finance teams to restart their organization’s growth engine.

The Guided Self-Control Management Model

A planning and budgeting approach centered on management principles of guided self-control can drive organizational agility.

Heat Experiences: A Career Accelerator

Heat experiences enable emerging leaders in an organization to practice their leadership and collaboration capabilities.

Strategic Valuation in The New Economy

Strategic valuation process equips CFOs to make better strategic resource allocation decisions and to create long-term value.

IMA Life: Inspiring Integrity

IMA provides a solid framework to the management accounting profession that spans industries, and company cultures.

Vocal Values-Driven Leadership

Focused on ethical implementation, the Giving Voice to Values approach helps employees develop a “moral muscle memory.”

A Beacon of Ethical Behavior

The IMA Statement of Ethical Professional Practice helps professionals to factor ethical considerations into their decisions.

Process Improvements in Accounting

Finance professionals can leverage various technological solutions for process improvement and eliminating inefficiencies.

Corporate Philanthropy and Employee Productivity

Companies employing a charitable contribution matching program can reap the benefit of increased employee productivity.

Invest in Your People

Companies can improve their staff retention rates by investing in their employees’ professional development.

Tools of Trade: October 2021

A look at Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3, Z Flip3, Samsung Galaxy Watch4 Classic, and the Dell C1422H portable monitor.

Cultural Communication and the Small Business

By bridging communication gaps, finance leaders can better facilitate close collaboration among cross-functional teams.

Excel: Clean Data with Get & Transform

Excel users can clean their data in Power Query using the data-cleansing tools available in the Get & Transform Data group.

Data Fabric Architecture

In its 2021 list of trends to watch, Gartner includes data fabric as a necessary architecture to support data analytics.

Taxes: Taxpayer Relief from Net Operating Loss Changes

The CARES Act modifies net operating loss rules to make operating losses potentially fully deductible for last few tax years.

New MAQ Issue Is Online

The new issue of Management Accounting Quarterly features a survey of management accounting systems at Lean companies.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s CMA Program Turns 30

In September 2021, IMA celebrated 30-year partnership with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Books: Becoming More Agile

Agility in market intelligence, decision making, and execution can help companies retain their competitive advantage.

Welcome, New CMAs: August 2021

The ICMA is proud to announce the list of IMA members who earned their CMA certification in August 2021.