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CEOs Guide to generative AI: Finance

Explore three things CEOs need to know and three things they need to do now to apply generative AI to finance.

Modernize record-to-report

This report shows how, with proper data management, the combination of automation and AI can modernize the record-to-report finance function.

Modernize purchase to pay

Advanced technologies—including automation, analytics, and AI—are boosting performance in purchase-to-pay processes.

For CFOs, cognitive computing and AI makes sense of data

Learn how CFOs can use cognitive computing to increase finance IQ.

AI's quantified impact on the finance function

Explore how more than 1,000 finance leaders are using AI to drive quantifiable business outcomes and optimize operational costs.

Why CFOs should care about advanced analytics and cognitive computing

The experiences of leading Finance teams provide insights into capitalizing on the next wave of analytics: cognitive computing.

The sustainability imperative: The integral role of finance—quantified

Finance leaders play an essential role in supporting sustainability initiatives. See how we’ve quantified their potential impact.

CFO Study: Strategic Intelligence

Faced with a paradox of responsibilities—protecting stability while fueling transformation—CFOs are innovating ways to optimize their own potential and that of their teams.

New CFO horizons

Learn how high-performing finance teams are using analytics and cognitive computing to take advantage of emerging opportunities.

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The CEO’s guide to generative AI: Tech spend

Three things CEOs need to know and three things they need to do now to apply generative AI to technology spending.

Strategic Intelligence: CFOs as architects of action and champions of change - French

Amidst continuing uncertainty, CFOs must be both guardians of stability and agents of transformation.

2013 CFO study: Pushing the frontiers

CFO perspective from the C-suite Study

2008 CFO Study: Balancing Risk and Performance with an Integrated Finance Organization

In the globally interdependent marketplace, CFOs need their organizations to perform well and outperform their peers with consistently strong growth and big profits.

The purchase-to-pay power of exponential tech-Infographic

AI and automation help purchase-to-pay managers lower costs and streamline business processes.

The case for AI in Finance - Infographic

2021 Benchmark study on the impact of AI on the finance function, a global cross industry study with 1,000 respondents of which 576 are AI adopters.

How can IBM help you?

Finance consulting

IBM financial consultants can help you leverage the right combination of people, process and technology to transform your finance function and discover new ways of working.

Procurement consulting and outsourcing services

Accelerate your procurement transformation from source to pay, using greater access to powerful data, insights and emerging technologies to empower your teams.

Creating a Virtual Enterprise by reimagining workflows

IBM transforms “business as usual” with AI and hybrid cloud technologies.