Myles Corson is joined by Fulya Kocak, SVP of ESG issues for Nareit and Serena Wolfe, CFO of Annaly Capital Management. They discuss the increasing stakeholder focus on ESG issues within REITs and the broader real estate sector. They look at how the pandemic has influenced agility within REITs to become ESG change agents for other sectors. ©2021Ernst & YoungLLP Links: https://www.annaly.com/~/media/Files/A/Annaly-V3/annaly-2020-corporate-responsibility-report.pdf; http://www.REIT.com/ESG;...

In this episode of the Better Finance podcast, Myles Corson is joined by Dave O’Hara, corporate vice president and chief financial officer for Commercial Finance at Microsoft. Dave shares how his unconventional career path, going from public policy and economic development to a friend’s software company, eventually led to being CFO of a major division in Microsoft. He attributes his career success to never staying too comfortable, embracing change and never backing down from a challenge.

Podcast host Myles Corson welcomes Ryan Grimsland, Senior Vice President Corporate Finance and Treasurer at Lowe’s Companies, and Loren Garruto, EY Partner and Global and Americas Corporate Finance Leader. Together, they discuss how finance can enable business to better manage unpredictable market behavior as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. They take a closer look at the challenges caused by the pandemic and how becoming more agile in forecasting and planning can help prepare for future...

Find out more about the role of tomorrow’s CFO and the future skills of finance. Podcast host Myles Corson welcomes Simon Bittlestone, CEO of Metapraxis, a financial analytics company, and Andrew Harding, chief executive of Management Accounting at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants.

Podcast host Myles Corson welcomes Brian Tomlinson, Director of Research, CEO Investor Forum, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP), and Marc Siegel, a member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and EY partner. Together they discuss the acceleration of ESG issues in corporate reporting. Their conversation also considers the increasingly vital role ESG plays in investor communications and what investors are looking for companies to disclose. © 2021 Ernst & Young...

Podcast host Myles Corson welcomes Michael Keeler, CEO of LeaseAccelerator, to discuss how technology and managed services are transforming lease accounting. Together, they take a closer look at the challenges, administrative burdens and missed cost saving opportunities of large lease portfolios. The conversation continues with managed services and how technology is helping to automate, harmonize and simplify the leasing process and lease accounting compliance. © 2020 Ernst & Young LLP

Podcast host Myles Corson welcomes Dr. Matthew Bell, EY’s Asia Pacific Climate Change and Sustainability Services(CCaSS) Leader, to discuss his varied career path and key findings from the 2020 EY CCaSS Institutional Investor survey, How will ESG performance shape your future? © 2020 Ernst & Young LLP

Podcast host Myles Corson welcomes Marna Ricker, EY Americas Vice Chair – Tax. They discuss the depth of the US government response to COVID-19 and the impact the 2020 US presidential election will have on the tax landscape and overall economy. Their discussion also analyzes the role that technology has played in tax during COVID-19, and the types of technology and software CFOs and tax executives are seeking out to help them access more data at a faster pace. © 2020 Ernst & Young LLP

Trust is the foundation on which organizations can build stakeholder confidence and active participation with their AI systems. How do finance functions build trust into their AI? Podcast host Myles Corson welcomes Cathy Cobey, EY’s Global Trusted AI Advisory Leader, to discuss how she helps organizations understand some of the new risks that AI brings and how they can start to create the right governance and control mechanisms. © 2020 Ernst & Young LLP.

Podcast host Myles Corson welcomes back Paul Brody, EY Global Blockchain Leader, to discuss the evolution of blockchain and how it is enabling seamless transactions and near real-time exchange of information, to evolve into an open, scalable, compliant and secure public transaction system. #betterfinance © 2020 Ernst & Young LLP.

Winna Brown, Private Equity (PE) Leader in the EY Americas Financial Accounting Advisory Services practice, joins podcast host Myles Corson to discuss PE’s ability to create operational value and its long-term outlook. Their conversation explores how companies can think about private equity at any point in its growth life cycle and why talent is at the top of the list in terms of private equity focus. #betterfinance © 2019 Ernst & Young LLP.

Andrew Hay, Head of Proposition, Statutory Reporting and Shared Service Centers at Thomson Reuters, joins podcast host Myles Corson to discuss how companies can standardize and centralize global finance operations by leveraging technology. Their conversation examines how the area of statutory reporting and tax compliance is evolving, the opportunities and challenges organizations have with standardization as they transform their organizations. © 2019 Ernst & Young LLP. All rights reserved

This special episode features an abridged recording of “When Great Technology Meets Great Finance Professionals” a session from the 2018 Current Financial Reporting Issues Conference hosted by FEI. The panel, moderated by Myles Corson, included David Fabricant, SVP, Global Record to Report Controller at American Express and Dan Werries, formerly Global Director for Finance Systems, Purchasing Systems & Analytics at the Dow Chemical Co. and now VP Information Technology, Corporate...

Marc Siegel, a member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and EY partner, joins podcast host Myles Corson to discuss key trends in corporate reporting. Their conversation takes a closer look at the influence of short-termism on an organization’s long-term value story, the power of shareholder activism, the insatiable consumption of data by investors and other reporting challenges finance executives face...

Kris Pederson, EY Americas Governance Leader, joins podcast host Myles Corson to discuss strategic and purpose-led transformation and the importance it has in communicating long-term value. ©2019 Ernst & Young, LLP. All Rights Reserved.

Tom Shea, Chief Executive Officer at OneStream Software, joins podcast host Myles Corson to discuss the role of corporate performance management (CPM) solutions in helping CFOs rationalize data and enabling managers across the enterprise make better business decisions. ©2019 Ernst & Young, LLP Limited. All Rights Reserved.

John Murphy, Executive Vice President and CFO at Adobe Inc. joins podcast host Myles Corson to discuss the role of the CFO in enabling digital transformation and its impact on the finance function. Ernst and Young, LLP © 2019.

Host Myles Corson and Chief Data Analytics Officer and Emerging Technologies Leader, Chris Mazzei, discuss the ways in which emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and robotic process automation are impacting businesses and how finance executives are adapting to these changes. ©2018 Ernst & Young, LLP Limited. All Rights Reserved.

EY's Myles Corson and Global Vice Chair of Assurance, Felice Persico, discuss how finance is being redefined, in areas from reporting to auditing, and how finance leaders need to view technology as a tool for creating the finance function of the future.

EY’s Myles Corson sits down with Microsoft Americas CFO Jack Ryder to talk about the evolving role of finance. Together, they discuss integrating real-time data with human analysis as well as Microsoft’s four pillars for finance: People, Prioritization, Partnership and Protection.

With automation and integrated technology on the cusp of redefining today’s accounting, function leaders need to be smart about how to efficiently and effectively implement new offerings. EY’s Myles Corson sits down with BlackLine founder and CEO Therese Tucker to discuss a strategic shift in the way the function operates and redefining accounting as a critical partner in driving forward new business objectives.

The complexities of corporate reporting are increasing, driving the necessity to utilize technology to bring innovation to reporting and the finance function overall. EY’s Myles Corson, Peter Wollmert and Dana Bober discuss this disruption and how to prepare finance professionals for the shift.

Artificial intelligence is on the rise, and applications like machine learning and speech recognition are positioned to transform the business landscape. EY’s Myles Corson and Nigel Duffy, Global Innovation Artificial Intelligence Leader at EY, discuss how AI can enhance human insight.

Adapting and incorporating new technologies is leading the way for exponential change in companies. EY’s Myles Corson and Deepak Krishnamurthy, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President at SAP, discuss emerging technologies and the role the startup community plays in innovation today.

EY’s Myles Corson is joined by Leslie Seidman, chair of the recent Pacesetters in Financial Reporting Conference and Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Financial Reporting at the Lubin School of Business, for a discussion exploring enhancing financial reporting practices in a time of exceptional change.