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How artificial intelligence and automation are actually landing inside finance departments — what reached production, what quietly died, and what it means for controls, audit trails and headcount.
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Its treasury team connected better cash visibility to debt repayment and credit-line sizing. The case shows where financial AI can earn a return—and why the data pipeline matters as much as the prediction.
The useful lesson is a decision every finance team can make: where will the capacity released by automation go—and what evidence will justify changing the plan?
BlackLine’s Verity Prepare pushes AI from answering questions about the close into producing work that becomes close evidence. The design question is whether an accountant can still take responsibility for the result.
Zip’s role-based Superagents can coordinate task agents, act across connected systems and escalate to humans. For finance and procurement, the governance layer — not the autonomy — is the story.
Cost control is back as the dominant executive measure of procurement — but supplier diversification, longer contracts and safety stock all cost money. The 2026 question is which premium is worth paying.
When the bill depends on tokens, API calls, credits and commitments, invoice accuracy starts inside the product. Stripe’s Metronome deal turns billing into an architecture question for AR.
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SAP
In this SAP Finance Connect keynote, SAP presents how AI assistants and agents could fit into core finance workflows, from accounting and consolidation to planning, billing and payments. As a vendor-hosted keynote, its product capabilities and reported benefits are SAP and participant claims rather than independently verified outcomes.
Senad Mustafic · Chief Accounting Officer, 1Password
Senad Mustafic, Chief Accounting Officer at 1Password, joins Kinter controller Armen Aklian, CPA, for an on-demand fireside chat (The CFO Track) about his path from financial analysis into controllership, how his thinking on AI has changed, and his approach to AI adoption at 1Password.
Praveer Melwani · CFO, Figma
A conversation with Figma CFO Praveer Melwani about leading finance inside a modern technology company, working alongside founders, AI, scale and the evolving responsibilities of today's CFO.
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CFO Weekly
Host Megan Weis and Kerrie Jones, Financial Controller at Peak Living, on why following the correct process doesn’t guarantee a sensible outcome — and how controllers can teach accountants when to question the output, including AI’s. CFO Weekly is produced by Personiv.
CFO Weekly
Editor's PickA forward-looking discussion on AI agents transforming accounts receivable, the shift from finance operators to finance architects, “headless finance,” and what the CFO function could look like in the next three to five years.
CFO Weekly
Editor's PickA practical look at AI adoption across FP&A, treasury, tax and controllership, including high-ROI use cases, automation, organizational readiness, build-vs-buy decisions and change management.
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