CFO Community Newsletter
Welcome to A&M's CFO Community newsletter
The CFO plays a critical role in leading performance insights and decision-making across their organisations. This newsletter brings together selected perspectives from our work with finance leaders, navigating topics that are shaping today’s CFO agenda across the Finance function and business-wide value creation. Today, navigating AI is a focus area for most businesses, ensuring the right foundations are in place both for value capture today and as the technology evolves.
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RECENT CFO CONTENT
European Due Diligence Report 2026
A&M Private Equity Report: How Due Diligence is Adapting to Volatility
Long-held trade alliances, supply chain dynamics and demand assumptions have been repeatedly fractured under the pressure of geopolitics, technological and societal shifts, as well as Black Swan events like the Covid pandemic.
With that, key reference points for deal underwriting – demand patterns, cost structures and competitive dynamics – are now subject to faster and less predictable change, making it much harder to evaluate businesses and their potential.
IPO Readiness
The Cost of Waiting
Seasoned executives know that the best time to prepare for an IPO isn't when the window opens, it's well before. Preparing early is the difference between moving first when the window opens and racing against the clock once it does.
A readiness assessment strengthens governance, financial reporting, and internal controls today, so leadership can move first and decisively once market conditions align.
AI Token Economics
A practical Guide for Managing AI Spend
As artificial intelligence (AI) moves from proof of concept to operational infrastructure, the economics of running it have become a material line item for organizations across industries. Prices are moving quickly and the competitive landscape is shifting on a timescale of months, not years.
Yet most organisations have no systematic way to understand, measure, or manage their AI spend.
ACCOUNTING AND TAX NEWS
Significant UK Transfer Pricing Update
From 1 January 2027, HMRC will require in-scope groups to file a new International Controlled Transactions Schedule (ICTS): standardised, transaction-level transfer pricing reporting filed with the corporation tax return. For the first time, HMRC will see your intra-group arrangements in detail - and plans to use that data to target transfer pricing enquiries.
The form also requires annual confirmation of any policy changes, restructurings or intangible transfers, so these become visible as they happen. The takeaway: get comfortable with your transfer pricing position before your next financial year, while there is still room to review and adjust.
IFRS - 18 Update
IFRS 18 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027, and is to be applied retrospectively for comparative periods.
The new standard will significantly impact the presentation and disclosures of financial statements, particularly the statement of profit or loss, and will affect entities across diverse industries.
UPCOMING EVENTS
CFO of 2030 roundtable | 17 September 2026 | London
The next generation CFO is a true architect of value - owning the operating model, translating strategy into execution, and hardwiring financial discipline into day-to-day decision-making.
In partnership with executive search firm, Renovata, this roundtable is for Private Equity finance operating partners and large-cap CFOs to discuss the questions shaping the CFO agenda today.
The Indirect Tax Function of the Future | 1 October 2026 | London
Global tax authorities are demanding increasing amounts of data, in real-time, from businesses with respect to indirect taxes. The implications of being unprepared can extend far beyond the tax and finance function. A&M are hosting a conference on 1 October 2026 for tax and indirect tax leaders, and customs, supply chain and transformation heads, all of whom are all dealing with these increased demands while managing change driven by global insecurity, ERP transformation and resource constraints.
This promises to be a great event – relevant members of your teams can see the full agenda and register via the link below.
INSIGHTS FROM ACROSS A&M
RECENT CFO COMMUNITY EVENTS
Leveraging AI in the Finance Function
June 2026 | London
CFOs, CTrOs and the AI value creation agenda are becoming inseparable: nearly two-thirds of European PE funds now build AI into their value creation plans, but 60% can't confidently say what they're getting back for it (A&M's 2026 survey of 200 PE leaders).
Over the summer, Christina Barakett, Managing Director and Partner of CFO Services, hosted two breakfast discussions with PE operating partners, CTrOs and CFOs on aligning AI ambition with P&L impact alongside colleagues Faisal Ahmad, A&M EMEA Data & AI practice lead and Global AI OpCo, and Till Prinz, A&M CPO Agentic AI Platform. The clearest signal: AI creates the most value not as automation layered onto existing workflows, but at the centre of operating model transformation, changing how a business decides and operates. That's the story buyers reward at exit.
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