Kristin Broughton

Companies from Motorola Solutions to Intuit are leaning on their finance teams to weigh the possible benefits against the costs—and keep those costs in check.

Royal Bank of Canada fired CFO Nadine Ahn for having an undisclosed personal relationship with an employee, a dismissal that came just one week after the bank closed its $10 billion acquisition of HSBC’s Canadian business.

Lands’ End is on track to swing to an annual profit for the first time in three years, following a pandemic slump, by nudging customers who love a good discount to pay full price.

Interest rates were set to fall. Now, companies are hunting for ways to offset higher debt costs, making sure potential deals are worth the extra financing cost and bracing for more sales pressure.

The newly appointed executive will move into the role in early 2025, succeeding John Lawler who is taking up the position of vice chair

The online marketplace is carving out more space in its capital expenditure budget to fund its push into generative artificial intelligence.

AT&T, Keurig Dr Pepper and Krispy Kreme are among the companies reducing the size of such financing.

Consumers have pulled back on spending at restaurants, particularly after a minimum-wage boost in California spurred price hikes at many chains, Kura Sushi USA’s CFO says.

Tony Bowen, who helped delivered a profit jolt in the just-ended fiscal year, says his successor’s biggest challenge will be investing in AI while protecting the bottom line.

CFO Drew Vollero says the social-media platform is on its way to becoming “very profitable, very quickly.”