News, trends, and insights for finance leaders and professionals.
Cost-benefit analysis remains one of the most effective ways FP&A teams can drive strategy. Here’s how modern finance teams structure cost-benefit analyses, avoid common pitfalls, and apply the framework to real business decisions.
Explore key trends and findings within the 2025 Professional Services Maturity™ Benchmark report—and how professional services organizations can leverage them for current and future success.
Strategic finance teams are redefining their role by using data to drive decisions, not just report on them. Finance leaders must understand the most important FP&A metrics to track—and how they help organizations plan smarter and adapt faster.
Artificial intelligence and automation are transforming business spend management, helping companies make smarter financial decisions and build long-term resilience. Explore how modern business spend management solutions are evolving and the key trends shaping the future of financial strategy.
Explore how modern CFOs can transform financial data into powerful narratives, engage stakeholders, and drive strategic decisions with storytelling acumen.
Automation has fundamentally changed how invoice processing functions. Find out how automating invoice workflows, from AI capture to ERP integration, enhances efficiency and prepares finance teams for the future.
Finance leaders must assess risks, evaluate supply chains, and plan for a variety of scenarios to minimize the effects of tariffs while maintaining organizational agility.
Forward-thinking CFOs are leveraging AI to transform their teams and revolutionize finance. Understand why it’s critical that finance leaders embrace AI to stay competitive in a data-driven world.
Discover strategies for CFOs to navigate market volatility in 2025. Learn how to embrace financial flexibility and drive sustainable growth.
Uncover pivotal trends shaping financial services in 2025. Learn how AI, embedded finance, and personalized wellness strategies are crucial for financial professionals and analysts.
FP&A reporting has evolved from basic financial tracking to a critical driver of business strategy, helping companies make faster, smarter decisions. Read on to discover the right FP&A reporting solution for your business.
Traditional financial planning is too slow for today’s changing markets. Learn how continuous planning gives finance teams real-time insights to adapt, forecast accurately, and make smarter decisions.
To thrive in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, financial services organizations must harness the power of their data. Join us on Workday Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward for a conversation with Lee Vanderpool, chief accounting officer at General Atlantic. Vanderpool reveals how extracting key insights from data fuels competitive advantage and enables agility in decision-making.
Business process automation is transforming how companies streamline operations and enhance decision-making. Explore real-world examples, key benefits, and strategies for successful implementation.
Emotional intelligence is a necessity for today’s finance leaders. Understand its pivotal role in leadership and strategic business success.
From automating complex processes to delivering real-time strategic insights, AI is empowering corporate finance teams to not only keep up with the pace of change—but to lead it.
Financial analysis is a critical part of operating a successful finance team. But what do they do, what tools do they use, and what skills do they need? Read on for a snapshot of the working life of a financial analyst.
Unlock the potential of CFOs as chief value officers, balancing traditional roles with strategic foresight to drive value creation.
AI is playing an increasingly integral role in finance teams—but many organizations still have low adoption rates. Read on to learn five key ways to use AI for financial analysis to drive greater results.
Navigating uncertain times is hard for any business—but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how scenario planning tools can set your business up for success.
Explore how automation is shaping the finance and accounting professions, improving organizational efficiency, and helping to recruit and retain talent for the long term.
Navigate the competitive business landscape with our CFO guide, offering expert strategies to build sustainable growth and transform financial acumen into a strategic advantage.
AI has already led to huge changes in predictive analytics in finance, and the biggest are yet to come. Learn how automation and advanced data analysis are turning finance teams into strategic leaders.
2025 is well underway—but what will the defining trends be for CFOs? Read on to learn about the importance of upskilling finance teams, adopting cloud-based solutions, and AI as a key enabler of integrated finance.
Sometimes taking a position not normally associated with finance pays outsized dividends. Workday CFO Zane Rowe talks career, customers, AI, and finance in a CFO Thought Leader podcast.
In an era of constant change, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. In this installment of the podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk with Oliwia Berdak, financial technology research director at Forrester Research. We caught up with Berdak to talk about Forrester’s predictions for 2025 and beyond
Dallas-based broker Integrity maintains a positive employee culture by focusing on its people—and employee-friendly technology is a big component of that. Integrity’s Chief People and Culture Officer Rachelle McReynolds shares insights.
We’re thrilled to celebrate our nonprofit customers who continue to provide critical services through their agility and dedication. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
Washington University’s Jason Burg discusses how the prestigious St. Louis institution empowered its people with data-driven insights, setting the stage for strategic change and transforming the student experience.
Profitable, sustainable growth is the closest thing the business sector has to nirvana—but achieving this state has proved particularly challenging in recent years. An insightful webinar highlights McKinsey & Company research into how companies can move the needle.
Digital transformation gave the global tax and compliance provider unprecedented insight into its data. In the process, the organization also leveled up its finance and accounting teams to provide greater value for the business.
We’re honored to once again be recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software for our completeness of vision and ability to execute.
A solid strategy, an emphasis on customer satisfaction, and having the right people in the right roles are just some of the elements that set companies up to maximize shareholder value. Executives from Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, and Snowflake share their insights.
Washington State University (WSU) wanted to better forecast grants to support its groundbreaking research. We talked with WSU’s Gerik Kimble and Christine Galbreath about how their modernization project helped streamline inefficient processes to project future expenses and remaining balances on grants.
We’re excited to be recognized as a Leader in this report once again. Workday Illuminate reflects our relentless commitment to innovation around how we deliver AI across the Workday platform to empower our customers with increased efficiency and deeper insights, unlocking the ability to seize new opportunities for growth.
A report from Huron and Workday explores how nonprofit research institutions can digitally transform to reimagine their future.
What keeps the transportation industry moving forward? Let’s dive into trends in this fast-paced industry to see what leaders are doing to stay flexible, innovative, and profitable.
We’re delighted to celebrate retail and hospitality customers who move their business forward by innovating on the Workday platform to create great experiences for their employees and customers. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
We’re delighted to celebrate technology and media customers who consistently find solutions to problems and create great experiences for their employees and customers. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
The report, which surveyed 265 members of the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services audience, explores the importance of digital transformation and agile planning within the finance function.
To mark the close of Workday’s acquisition of Evisort, an AI-native document intelligence platform, we spoke with its founder and CEO about the impetus and vision behind his company.
In the process of digital transformation at Bill Gosling Outsourcing, Joe Fanutti went from the company’s CFO to its chief integration officer—while embracing technology that provided better insights, helped improve efficiency, and enabled future growth.
Workday is introducing enhancements across an array of products focused on hyper-automating processes for financial management, planning, and spend management while improving the speed and accuracy of data insights.
Providers need to build resilient supply chains that help deliver patient-centric, value-based healthcare. Data-driven insights, automation, and AI and machine learning (ML) set the stage for strategic change and innovation.
The transportation industry keeps shelves stocked and homes filled with the goods necessary for everyday life. In this episode, Daragh Mahon, EVP and CIO at Werner Enterprises, sits down with Kalan Comba, Workday CTO of Americas, to talk trends in the transportation industry and how Workday helps Werner move confidently into the future while keeping its employees at the forefront.
Continuous planning is more than faster forecasting—it encompasses specific planning practices that catalyze change and drive business agility across the organization.
Joseph Fuller, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, says business leaders have to embrace decision intelligence—and rethink company processes in the age of AI—if they want to effectively manage risk and outperform peers.
Michelle McCrimmon, CFO of the City of Orlando, shares how she leverages technology to continue to transform finance, attract and retain talent, and help the fast-growing city prepare for the future.
Although most senior decision-makers would agree that planning has a direct impact on performance, the signs of outdated planning are distributed and often hard to spot.
Building trust around AI for a finance team requires “transparency, auditability, and openness as it relates to data,” Workday CFO Zane Rowe said in a recent podcast.