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Chief Financial Officers are increasingly being looked upon as Chief Performance Officers. They have to come up with key indicators to measure the business's performance.

"Traditionally, information technology simply involved gathering data for Finance and then pushing it out in a series of reports. But today, IT is no longer just about information gathering. Instead, it gives CFOs timely access to critical parts of a business, enabling them to engage in more analytical functions that force them to rethink the way in which their business operates...."