CFO & Working Capital
Working capital, cash flow, and the strategic case for a faster, leaner receivables function, written for finance leaders.
Recession-ready cash strategies for finance leaders
In a downturn the cheapest cash is your own receivables, collected consistently. Here are the cash strategies finance leaders use to stay resilient when capital gets expensive.
How to unlock cash trapped in your receivables
Cash trapped in receivables is money you have earned but not yet collected. You unlock it by collecting faster and more consistently, no new financing required.
How to improve working capital without squeezing customers
You improve working capital by collecting receivables faster, paying suppliers on your terms, and holding less stock, not by straining the customers who fund your growth.
How to build a finance automation strategy that sticks
Most finance automation stalls because it moves data instead of delivering outcomes. Here is how to build a strategy around agentic automation that an organization actually keeps.
Order-to-cash transformation: a practical roadmap
Most order-to-cash transformations add systems without fixing the stage that traps cash: collections. Here is a roadmap that prioritizes the highest-leverage fix first.
How to scale AR without adding headcount
Receivables volume grows faster than you can hire collectors. Here is how to let AR scale by handing routine outreach to an AI agent and keeping people on high-value work.
Building a future-ready AR team for the age of AI
A future-ready AR team spends its hours on judgment, not chasing. Here is how the roles, skills, and structure change when an AI agent handles the routine work.
Why your ERP isn't enough for accounts receivable
Your ERP records receivables accurately but doesn't collect them. Here is the gap between recording and acting, and what an agentic AR agent does that the ERP cannot.
The real cost of manual AR (and how to quantify it)
Manual accounts receivable costs far more than collector salaries. Here is how to quantify the lost cash, missed follow-ups, and write-offs hiding in your process.
The strategic CFO and receivables: turning AR into advantage
For a strategic CFO, receivables are a controllable source of cash and resilience, not a back-office chore. Here is how to treat AR as a lever, not a ledger line.
How to reduce DSO and free up cash fast
Reducing DSO frees up cash you have already earned. Here is what a high DSO costs you, why it creeps up, and the levers that pull it down within a billing cycle.
AR's role in cash flow: the lever CFOs underuse
Accounts receivable is the cash flow lever finance teams control most directly, yet under-invest in. Here is how AR shapes cash flow and why consistency unlocks it.