Where should CFOs focus their attention in 2018?

In my conversations with customers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a few key patterns and themes have become clear. CFOs recognize that the role of corporate finance needs to change to keep pace with the world around them. Rapid changes in consumer technologies, new regulations, and a flood of millennials entering the workforce are forcing the world of business to adapt. Those companies that can't keep pace run the risk of becoming extinct.

In extensive talks with customers, partners, researchers and subject-matter experts, we've identified five things that global CFOs should focus on in the year ahead.