Beware the Ides of March. Interest rates are climbing. AI is reshaping every role in the building. Global uncertainty is at levels that make forecasting feel like guesswork. Staff cuts across the sector. A compliance deadline that waits for no one. And now oil is past $100.
This is the month that separates the finance leaders who are ready from the ones who aren't. Here's everything you need to stay ahead of it.
Inside this edition:
These stories sparked conversation at Weel HQ, so we’re passing them on to you.
Last month, Weel was out and about in Melbourne. We hosted an invite-only Weel CFO Roundtable and took the keynote stage at CFO Horizons by CFO Magazine. Two formats, one consistent signal.
The CFOs moving fastest on AI aren't waiting for a perfect plan; they're acting, and building governance around it as they go. The ones who've stalled are waiting for certainty that isn't coming. That gap is widening faster than most people in the room expected.
Underneath that was a quieter shift in how finance leaders are thinking about control itself. Less about sign-off on every line item. More about having the visibility to move quickly when it matters. The teams getting this right are redefining what good finance leadership looks like, and the benchmark is moving.
These are the conversations shaping how finance leadership gets defined over the next five years. We'll be at the CFO Horizons events all year, so come and find us when we're in your city. And if you want a seat at the next Weel CFO Roundtable, join the waitlist. It fills fast.
What we heard in Melbourne, and what the market data confirms, is shaping what we build.
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In case you missed it, 2,000 finance leaders showed up to work through the hardest questions in ANZ finance right now. If you were there, you can now go back to the sessions you didn't want to end. If you weren't, start here.
Alan Kohler, ABC News Finance Presenter, on AI and the workforce. David Fortin, Microsoft MVP and CPA, ran a live Excel + Copilot demo that showed what AI-assisted finance looks like when it actually works. Professor Prabhu Sivabalan, UTS Vice-Chancellor on Enterprise Learning, on how to measure the ROI of AI investments, the question every CFO is asking, and few have a rigorous answer to.
Plus: Eftsure on cyber risk for finance teams who still think it's someone else's problem. Fathom on forecasting in a rate environment that won't sit still. And a session on the tools worth backing now versus the ones worth waiting on.
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