After years of focusing on cost reduction, CFOs are bullish on growth. Yet growth strategies are being pursued at unprecedented scale and speed for today’s generation of CFOs. Can they move into the uncharted territory of rapid value creation? With investors watching and disruptors looming, they must. They reality is that every CFO must be ready to make rapid-fire decisions and execute at scale. The potential for game-changing opportunities and terrible failures is real—and the line between them is razor thin Learn more: http://www.accenture.com/CFOGrowthAgenda

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Go fast, scale up… or go home:
The new CFO growth agenda

2. Yet growth looks very different
in a digitally disrupted world.
After eight years
of focusing on cost
reduction, CFOs are bullish
on growth.
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3. M&A is replacing R&D
as a means to create value rapidly.
The reality is that CFOs must act
faster than ever before.
But do they have the tools they
need to evaluate growth
opportunities
in a whole new light?
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CFOs have not been
focused on growth for years.
For the first time since 2008, more than half of CFOs
cite growth rather than cost reduction as their
strategic priority for 2016. This figure more than
doubled in just one year.

5. M&A has topped R&D
as the primary growth engine.
Amid massive industry disruption and investor pressures to create
value quickly, the M&A of new products, technologies and talent is
increasingly becoming the only way for CFOs to keep pace with
growth expectations. While organic growth through R&D and market
expansion remains a priority, M&A provides a faster route to
innovation.
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6. CFOs are flying blind in the
new growth agenda.
As the pressure to act fast builds,
the risk of failure increases.
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7. CFOs lack full transparency
into financial models and data to
evaluate growth opportunities properly:
Inorganic strategies must be addressed in
terms of the disruption opportunities they
create, the risk of cannibalization of the
existing business and the value of the
intangible assets acquired.
Organic growth strategies need to address the
risk of competitive disruption and the ability to
execute at speed.
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CFOs who want to achieve
sustainable profitable growth need to:
Stop making yesterday’s assumptions.
Develop the mindset, tools and analytics required to effectively
evaluate alternative organic and inorganic growth strategies.
Rally around a specific, data-backed plan.
Define the criteria and associated metrics to measure against
growth strategy execution and evaluate overall profitability.
Transform the operating model fearlessly.
Establish the optimal operating model to support growth
strategies.

9. LEARN MORE
about how CFOs can prepare to act as quickly
as the market demands with our full report.
Go fast, scale up… or go home:
The new CFO growth agenda
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