David Axson

COMING SOON: The Behind the Curtain Series of Cold War Thrillers A 1977 crossing through Checkpoint Charlie spurred a lifelong...

This article was originally published in the October 2024 issue of the Journal of Accountancy To successfully assess and implement AI...

Almost forty years ago one of the most iconic companies in the world made a huge blunder—Coca Cola ditched Coke. The irony is that the...

A year ago, I wrote how finance professionals could face challenges of forecasting in a world characterised by global supply chain...

Welcome to the fifth in a series of 'reprints' of articles that I have written over the last two years in FM Magazine published by the...

Welcome to the fourth in a series of 'reprints' of articles that I have written over the last two years in FM Magazine published by the...

Welcome to the third in a series of 'reprints' of articles that I have written over the last two years in FM Magazine published by the...

Welcome to the second in a series of 'reprtints' of articles that I have written over the last two years in FM Magazine published by the...

Hello, This is the first of a series of 'reprints' of articles I have had written over the last two years in FM Magazine published by the...

As Einstein famously said the. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." It...

A story in today's Wall Street Journal starts with the headline "KPMG Gave SVB, Signature Bank Clean Bill of Health Weeks Before...

The concept of a rolling forecast as opposed to a static budget has been a favourite of consultants (this one included) for years. I...

CFOs are often thought of as backward looking and internally focused. If that is their sole focus, they are failing. By the time an...

Six Sigma, TQM, Black Belts, Green Belts, Defects. Not too long ago the language of Total Quality Management was the lingua franca of...

Two addtional articles in today's Wall Street Journal, "Target Says Price Cut Vital" and "Retail CFOs Wrestle With Inventory as Hurdles...

It was only back in February that I wrote about the flaws in forecasting. Yet I feel compelled to comment again. At their annual...

It seems only five minutes ago that we were talking about Web 2.0, virtual reality, blockchain and artificial intelligence. Now they...

Forecasting is big business. Pundits forecast the outcome of sporting events, economists forecast GDP growth rates, meteorologists...

Don't work for a hedge fund? Not an investor at all? It doesnt matter, every business leader needs to adopt an 'activist mindset'...

News that General Electric (GE) is to split itself into three separate businesses marks the demise of yet another conglomerate. Following...