CFOs are the New Digital Apostles

This report by Accenture looks at how digital is inching its way to the top of the CFO agenda. 

Key points include:

- Blockchain: The benefit of secure, near-instantaneous transaction processing

- AI: Companies can now reduce fraud through the use of natural language processing to monitor electronic communications

- Augmented Reality: Allows finance teams to develop more credible plans and forecasts

- Robotics: Financial firms use mini-bots to monitor accounts receivable data to isolate potential credit and customer risk, covering far more than human monitoring alone could do