AI/GenAI for CFOs - Links to 389 Articles/Reports (Excel XLSX)

For Chief Financial Officers, artificial intelligence and generative AI offer powerful tools for financial forecasting, risk assessment, and operational efficiency. By leveraging AI, CFOs can automate complex financial processes, gain deeper insights into financial data, and optimize resource allocation. Staying informed on AI trends, use cases, and challenges is essential for CFOs to develop robust governance and risk management policies that mitigate potential financial risks associated with AI adoption. This includes ensuring data privacy, regulatory compliance, and ethical AI deployment, ultimately enabling the organization to responsibly scale AI technologies while maintaining financial stability and integrity.

This excel file provides an index to 200 articles/reports regarding Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI that have been handpicked for CFOs and those execs in finance roles, including risk, governance, procurement, and budgeting. Another 189 additional links to articles and reports have also been included that are applicable to anyone in a C-Suite role. A total of 389 links to thought leadership articles and reports are provided. Almost all reports and articles listed were published during the period January 1, 2024 to March 1, 2025.

The linked articles/reports were published by credible sources that perform rigorous research and analysis. Example sources (and number of links to articles/reports) Accenture (29), Bain (23), BCG (41), Deloitte (30), Forrester (17), Gartner (54), IBM (42) and IBM Institute for Business Value (12), IDC (49), KPMG (20), McKinsey (33), and PWC (21).

The links also take you to articles on use cases (76), how to scale adoption (132), trends/predictions, genAI (155), governance/risk (97), sustainability (21), and many other topics.

Here are some example titles of articles/reports we have included in this spreadsheet:
•  The CFO's role in the age of generative AI
•  6 generative AI lessons every CFO should take into 2025
•  Managing Risks and Accelerating the AI Transformation
•  AI and Sustainability: The Power of Integration
•  The Enterprise guide to AI governance
•  The CEO's Guide to Generative AI: Finance
•  6 superpowers of the AI-enabled finance team
•  Unlocking Potential from AI and GenAI: Finance
•  AI in Finance: Use Cases, Strategies, Frameworks and Benefits

In our excel spreadsheet we include additional information about each article / report we list, including source, title, subtitle/abstract, publication month, and author names. In addition, the reports and articles have been 'tagged' in the spreadsheet using various columns (see descriptions below) so that you can sort/filter the spreadsheet to find the content you are interested in. Please review the column definitions below.
•  Source: The name of the source of the article (e.g. McKinsey, BCG, Gartner, IBM Institute for Business Value, etc.)
•  Geo Focus: If the article/report is focused on a specific geo region or country, it will be tagged with the region/country name
•  Tech Topics: If the article/report is focused on a specific tech topic (e.g. GenAI, Agents, Data, Security, etc.), we list that here.
•  Adoption Focus: Articles/Reports are tagged according to the they type of adoption-related topics it focuses on. Tags include About (covers an intro to the topic), State of Adoption, Scaling Adoption, Use Cases, Challenges, and Value.
•  Biz Topics: If the article/report is focused on a specific business topic (e.g. Future of Work, Customer Service, Governance/Risk, etc.), it will be tagged in this column.
•  Functions/Roles Focus: The articles/reports in this ELOMBODocs spreadsheet are applicable to CFOs and any other exec in a finance related role. We have tagged these in column G with either the Finance tag or a C-Suite tag.
•  Industry Focus: Articles/Reports that focus on specific vertical industry (Examples include: Banking, Manufacturing, Energy, Government, Retail, Telecom, etc.) have been tagged in this column.
•  Title (Click on title to go to the article/document): The title of the article/report is hot-linked and the links take you directly to the source article/report. In some rare cases, you will be required to register your email to access the content. All links have been tested as of March 2, 2025.
•  Subtitle: Here we have tried to capture the subtitle or summary of the document in 1-2 sentences
•  Month Published: In this column you will find the month this article/report was published.
•  Type of Content: Most content is either an article (blog, website, or press) or a report (PDF file). On some article pages you are given an opportunity to download a pdf. You may need to sign on to the source website and complete a profile in order to download the full report.
•  Author: Here we have captured the author names (when they were listed).

Our links take you directly to the source article/report. In some rare cases, you will be required to register your email to access the content. All links tested as of March 1, 2025. NOTE: Some of the articles/reports we include in this spreadsheet do appear in other ELOMBODocs excel spreadsheet offerings related to Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI. If you are interested in larger lists of articles/reports on this topic, please review our bundles and/or other document descriptions to discover our most comprehensive lists of articles/reports.

This spreadsheet saves you hours and hours of your own research time and helps you focus YOUR time on delivering thought leadership in your own role within your team, your organization, and with customers and clients.