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AMC Networks announced on Friday the appointment of Christina Spade as CFO and executive vice president, effective immediately. She succeeds the company’s previous finance chief, Sean Sullivan, who left in October for the same position at SiriusXM.

Today I will recognize Pat Keel, the CFO of St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital (St. Jude) and Debra Shoaf, the CFO of the Atlanta Food Bank (AFB).

Over the years, I’ve heard horror stories from marketers — that they found ad fraud and got their money back. Truly horrible, right? What's a marketer to do?

Many companies would not have survived 2020 if it weren’t for the guiding hand of a fully engaged CFO working closely alongside other senior executives to stabilize the business.

Like the rest of us, chief financial officers were challenged in 2020 like never before, and they more than rose to the occasion, helping to guide their organizations to unprecedented success.

Tech companies rely on generous equity grants to attract and retain employees. However, their earnings can severely understate the actual value sacrificed by shareholders in favor of employees.

The unexpected Georgia election results and resulting Democratic sweep all but guarantee that capital gains rates will increase, consistent with Biden’s tax plan.

If you are buying and showing ads in programmatic channels, you are disproportionately showing your ads to bots that don’t block ads, rather than to humans. Here are 5 other ways "leakage" is sapping your digital ad dollar.

Whether it was partnering with chief executive officers to develop new business models, being the lead communicator to employees and investors alike, providing a reassuring voice to customers, or finding a financial solution to a seemingly unsolvable financial crisis, CFOs stepped up in 2020.

Companies are at least four times less likely to release information following a negative event for which they are likely to be blamed than a similar event where they appear to be blameless, according to a study forthcoming in The Accounting Review.