Finance Research

Gartner offers finance expert advice, finance operations, finance strategy and more to ensure the speed and quality of your finance transformation initiatives.

Accelerate finance digital transformation by understanding how finance leaders can bolster digital finance talents’ connection to the function’s purpose, possibilities and people.

Low digital proficiency prevents finance teams from leveraging the full capabilities of digital technologies. Learn how government CFOs should develop five digital competencies within their teams to optimize the use of digital technologies such as RPA, ML and NLP.

In an environment of significant macroeconomic and competitive disruption, being able to respond quickly to change is paramount. Discover how leading CFOs are driving capital responsiveness and optimally funding their growth investment portfolios.

Use this five-step Gartner guide to identify best-fit technologies, prioritize technology investment, create a roadmap for technology implementation, and more.

Download your finance strategy template and learn how to develop a clear, concise, and measurable Finance strategic plan. Download Now.

Find out how your organization's priorities compare to peers by benchmarking budget changes across 7 categories.

A well-engineered transition process accelerates a new CFO’s success and creates more value for the organization. Learn about the best practice framework to help a new-to-role CFO quickly drive success and the 4 steps to new CFO transition success.

The first 100 days is critical for new CFOs to effectively to make their mark. Download Gartner's new CFO first 100 days guide – based on insights from both new-to-role and tenured CFOs – to focus on the 4 key areas that drive new CFO success.

Download the finance technology strategy report to discover how CFOs can increase finance agility by adopting a composable finance technology strategy that transforms their technology portfolio to be modular, flexible and adaptive to business needs.

Download the 2023 Leadership Vision for Finance Transformation Leaders to learn about key issues that will affect Heads of Finance Transformation in 2023 and to explore 5 strategic actions for success.

Download 2023 Gartner Leadership Vision for CFOs research to learn more about three key issues that will affect CFOs and their teams in 2023 and to explore 5 strategic actions for success.

Download 2023 Leadership Vision for Controllers to learn about key issues that will affect Controllers in 2023 and to explore 5 strategic actions for success.

Gartner surveyed 300 CFOs, heads of FP&A and controllers to identify the top finance trends impacting priorities and challenges in 2023. Download Now.

Download Gartner Recession Playbook for finance leaders with nine actions they can take to accelerate their organization's position during disruptions. Learn More

Download the Gartner Leadership Vision eBook to explore key actions for Heads of FP&A in 2023, how to improve planning amid business disruptions and more.

See 4 predictions and recommendations for navigating the autonomous finance transformation that’s disrupting legacy FP&A and Controller processes.

CFOs should explore the results of the 2022 Gartner for Finance Leaders AI Survey to better understand how the finance practice is implementing AI and how they can achieve success in their own AI initiatives.

Finance technologies are quickly evolving from automated processes to autonomous capabilities, but CFOs will not achieve autonomous finance without first shifting their mindsets. CFOs should use this research to learn how to experiment broadly, trust the outputs of autonomous capabilities and lead by example in the transition.

This Gartner research provides government CFOs guidance on how to successfully identify and adapt roles and responsibilities to embrace digital transformation.

Learn how CFOs can realign people, technologies, capital and other capabilities to respond swiftly to shifts in strategic priorities.

In our 2022 CEO Survey, CFOs reported that growth, digital technology transformation, inflation and corporate culture are high on their agenda. CFOs can use this report to benchmark their expectations for growth and approaches to finance digitalization.

Download the Gartner report to explore why corporate controllers should make the close process resilient and prepare your close to meet your digital transformation goals.

CFOs seeking to successfully deliver digital finance transformations for back- and middle-office operations must prioritize the use of AI solutions contracted through business process outsourcing providers as the most viable option.