How AI is Changing the CFO Role in 2026

And so what would you say are some of the things CFOs need to be aware of in that AI journey? >> The first one probably is um data integrity. If you don't trust your data today, then AI is just going to give you confident fast wrong answers. >> And so when you think about AI in

general, what's one risk around AI that you think is underplayed? >> Understanding the inputs that came in that drove the output. Not understanding that is an underplayed risk. Now you spend 25 years in that office of the CFO ecosystem. What has fundamentally changed about the CFO role? >> What's changed the most is probably the

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software/reporting to see how it works. I'll drop the link in the show notes. Welcome back to the Diary of a CFO podcast. I'm your host Via Kamon and each week we explore how top finance leaders help build high performance teams, partner with CEOs and board and lead through growth and transformation without burning out in the process. Our

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