{"id":295,"date":"2016-04-11T19:52:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metaoption.com\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:41:50","slug":"why-is-cloud-computing-gaining-popularity-among-cfos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metaoption.com\/blog\/microsoft-dynamics-nav\/why-is-cloud-computing-gaining-popularity-among-cfos\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is cloud computing gaining popularity among CFOs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nowadays, Finance is one of the major business functions to get serious about adopting cloud technology. Despite the possible cost efficiencies, the risk-averse nature of many financial organizations puts CFOs at risk of being late to the cloud technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, with the changing business needs, business accounting has become a complex and challenging undertaking. Here, with an inherent ability to fulfill these needs, cloud accounting has gained huge popularity over the traditional accounting, especially among the CFOs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>We enumerate the following reasons behind this scenario:<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>1. Better cash flow management<\/strong>. The largest financial benefit of cloud computing, especially in these capitals constrained times, is avoiding taking on debt and saving cash in the company longer (see example). If a project uses a cloud-based service provider, then the CFO avoids writing a big check upfront. Alternatively, checks are written monthly or quarterly in alignment with the return.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2. Investment:<\/strong> Pay as you go rather than spend upfront. With a cloud-based system, you pay just for what you use, and you can terminate the contract easily. An on-premises system means spending money upfront for benefits that may or may not materialize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3. Greater financial visibility.<\/strong> A cloud-based service provider can tell you how much it will cost to add a user or process another transaction. That visibility is a comfort to a CFO who must keep track of where the money is going. In most situations, IT is hard-pressed to deliver that same sort of financial transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, Finance is one of the major business functions to get serious about adopting cloud technology. Despite the possible cost efficiencies, the risk-averse nature of many financial organizations puts CFOs at risk of being late to the cloud technology. However, with the changing business needs, business accounting has become a complex and challenging undertaking. Here,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metaoption.com\/blog\/microsoft-dynamics-nav\/why-is-cloud-computing-gaining-popularity-among-cfos\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[70,76,72,79,74,71,75,69,78,77,73],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-dynamics-nav","tag-benefit-of-cloud-computing","tag-cfo-cloud-computing","tag-cloud-accounting","tag-cloud-accounting-new-jersey","tag-cloud-accounting-software-usa","tag-cloud-based-accounting","tag-cloud-based-accounting-systems","tag-cloud-computing","tag-cloud-computing-for-accounting","tag-cloud-computing-for-finance","tag-cloud-technology"],"featured_image_src":false,"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"MetaOption","author_link":"https:\/\/www.metaoption.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metaoption.com\/blog\/category\/microsoft-dynamics-nav\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Microsoft Dynamics NAV<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Nowadays, Finance is one of the major business functions to get serious about adopting cloud technology. Despite the possible cost efficiencies, the risk-averse nature of many financial organizations puts CFOs at risk of being late to the cloud technology. However, with the changing business needs, business accounting has become a complex and challenging undertaking. 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