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Looking to build an efficient accounting team so you can focus on strategy and business growth? As the role of the CFO evolves to include long-term performance leadership, technology expertise, and company-wide strategic guidance, more and more accounting leaders are feeling overwhelmed. Join us as we talk to CFOs, Controllers, and other industry veterans who share their expertise on how to streamline accounting processes, create greater efficiency, and move to a data-driven model, allowing you to focus on what matters.
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- 2 weeks ago20 min
Where AI Delivers for Finance Teams and Where Fundamentals Still Win
In this episode of CFO Weekly, James Vanreusel, Founder and CEO of Vanreusel Ventures, joins Megan Weis to explore where AI is genuinely improving forecasting, reporting, and analysis, and why fundamentals like pricing, margins, and unit economics still matter most, drawing on a career spanning Wall Street, microfinance, and more than a decade of fractional CFO work.
- 3 weeks ago23 min
Agentic AI Starts with the Process, Not the Technology
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Courtney Stoner, VP of Finance Shared Services at Iron Mountain, joins Megan Weis to explore why agentic AI succeeds only when process redesign comes first, how finance leaders can prioritize use cases, measure ROI, and build controls for AI agents, and what the CFO role will look like over the next two to three years. Drawing from a career spanning civil engineering, operations, M&A, and finance.
- 4 weeks ago21 min
Why Professional Judgment Is the Accountant’s Greatest Differentiator
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Kerrie Jones, Financial Controller at Peak Living, joins Megan Weis to explore why professional judgment, not just technical expertise, is what makes accountants trusted business advisors. Drawing from her experience leading accounting teams through growth and change, hiring and developing more than 50 accountants, and serving on a nonprofit board, Kerrie shares how finance leaders can use AI as a decision support tool while still owning every decision.
- Sep 29, 202628 min
The CFO as Decision Architect
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Shirley Shu-Hurley, Chief Financial Officer at Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART), joins Megan Weis to explore how today's finance leaders are shaping strategy, strengthening governance, and building the organizational capacity businesses need to grow and adapt in an increasingly complex world. Drawing on two decades of experience across the energy sector, entrepreneurship, and global nonprofit finance, Shirley shares her framework for becoming a decision architect rather than a financial operator.
- Sep 22, 202630 min
Why CPAs Make Great CFOs
In this episode of CFO Weekly, John Wise, Director of Finance and Accounting at The Armstrong Company, joins Megan Weis to explore how the CPA designation can become a foundation for strategic business leadership, the cultural growing pains that come with scaling a middle-market business, and where finance leaders should start when transforming a decentralized finance function into one built for growth.
- Sep 15, 202628 min
How CFOs Use AI and Real-Time Data to Make Faster Decisions
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Mark Gaudiosi, Chief Financial Officer at Burro, joins Megan Weis to explore why AI adoption in finance succeeds or fails on one question: what decision does this actually change? Drawing on more than twenty-five years scaling finance functions at Gopuff, Medical Guardian, and now an outdoor autonomous robotics company, Mark shares how CFOs can separate real AI value from hype, why data ownership is shifting from IT to finance, and how operational data from robots is becoming a core financial metric.
- Sep 8, 202626 min
Why AI ROI Has Become a CFO Problem, Not a Tech Problem
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Mike DePrisco, President and CEO of IMA (Institute of Management Accountants), joins Megan Weese to explore why AI cost and ROI are becoming CFO problems rather than pure technology problems, drawing on IMA's own research showing 63% of finance leaders have now deployed AI and 37% of CFOs still don't trust their own data, and outlining what it really takes to evaluate AI investments and build measurable business value.
- Sep 1, 202626 min
Why AI-Native Finance Beats Bolted-On AI Tools
In this episode of CFO Weekly, Bojan Belejkovski, Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at Voltava, joins Megan Weis to explore why AI adoption in finance is fundamentally about data discipline and operating-model design, not the AI tools themselves, drawing on his path from law to treasury, his work leading major ERP transformations, and his book, Treasury 2.0: Future-Proofing Finance with AI.
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