Finance function

Effective cash management is an essential foundation for the success of any business. Careful monitoring helps to ensure financial stability, anticipate cash requirements and make informed decisions. It is therefore essential to optimize cash management to ensure that your business remains healthy, even in financially difficult times. While this may seem a complex task, adopting a number of best practices makes it easy to reap all the benefits. Here's how.

The widespread introduction of electronic invoicing from 2026 (postponed from 2024) is taking place against a backdrop of increasing digitalization of all business functions. Widely publicized in the media, this reform promises companies lower costs, greater efficiency and greater transparency in their business transactions. However, to reap the full benefits, CFOs and CIOs need to work together to take account of business issues and the impact on their company's IT systems. Is electronic invoicing a perfect opportunity to develop collaboration between CFOs and CIOs? We explain.

Initially scheduled for July 1, 2024, but finally postponed to 2026, the obligation to use electronic invoicing is bringing in new players. Under the new system for transmitting and receiving electronic invoices, companies will send them to their customers via a dematerialization platform. They will no longer be able to do so directly between themselves! Public Invoicing Portal (PPF), Partner Dematerialization Platforms (PDP) or Dematerialization Operators (OD)... the choice of these intermediaries is wide, penalizing companies that can quickly feel disoriented in this new ecosystem. What type of platform should you choose? What are their differences? Here's how.

Widespread inflation, rising energy prices, disruption of certain global supply chains, talent shortages: since the end of the Covid crisis, most companies have been forced to navigate by sight in a severely deteriorated economic and geopolitical environment, due in particular to the stalemate in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Against this backdrop of great uncertainty, CIOs' level of confidence remains high, and according to a Gartner study, French companies are even planning to increase their IT budgets by an average of 2.7% in 2023.

In the aftermath of the health crisis, companies are facing a European geopolitical conflict and, with it, serious consequences on the economy with a drop in the financial markets. At their helm, managers are relying on the accounting and finance departments - with the CFO at the top of the list - to face the challenges and try to navigate between inflation, shortages of raw materials and recruitment difficulties in certain professions. As a true captain of the ship, the CFO must lead the company through a stormy year 2023. Let's take a closer look at the major issues that await him in 2023.

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