How to train your finance team

It is essential for all finance leaders to develop your team members and you have an ongoing duty towards this. This helps to improve the effectiveness of your finance team, motivate people and retain your team members. However, time is one of your most valuable resources and many finance leaders spend too long designing the same type of training as everybody else at a huge opportunity cost to your business.

During this workshop, GrowCFO’s professional mentor and COO Kevin Appleby shares top tips on how to train your finance team members effectively and showcases how many people in the GrowCFO community are doing this.

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AI Masterclass: Practical uses of Claude for finance leaders

April 29, 2026 No Comments

Finance leaders don’t need more AI theory – they need results. In this practical masterclass, Pac O’Shea and Kevin Appleby show how to use Claude as a hands-on finance assistant for P&L insights, sharper board packs, and fast scenario models. Walk away with prompts, templates, and repeatable workflows you can apply in your finance team immediately.

What It Takes to Scale Through Acquisition

April 15, 2026 No Comments

Scaling through acquisition can double the size of your business—but only if your finance systems, controls and culture keep up. In this session, Tim O’Reilly, Ed Mortimer and Kevin Appleby share how Guild Garage Group used Sage Intacct, a unified tech stack and disciplined capital allocation to grow from 0 to 28 partners and $300m in revenue, while staying in control of cash, risk and performance.

The Cash Blindspots CFOs Miss in M&A Integration

March 11, 2026 No Comments

CFOs pour huge effort into M&A modelling but often miss the cash blindspots that appear once integration begins. In this session, experts from MeasuredValue, Agicap, and GrowCFO reveal how to spot hidden liquidity risks, improve cash visibility across entities, and keep your deal creating value long after it closes.

The 5 Finance Tasks CFOs Automate First (And Why)

February 25, 2026 No Comments

Learn which 5 finance tasks CFOs automate first—and why. This session with AccountsIQ and GrowCFO explores AP, approvals, banking, intercompany, dimensions, and how to align people, process and tech to get fast wins from finance automation.

AI Promises Speed. FP&A Is Still Stuck. Why?

February 12, 2026 No Comments

AI should make FP&A faster, but most teams remain stuck in slow, manual processes. In this session, leaders from NoseDat, Acterys and GrowCFO show how data, governance and focused use cases turn AI from hype into real planning speed.

The AI Adoption Gap in Finance and How to Close It

January 29, 2026 No Comments

CFO Pauline Babel of Spendesk joins Kevin Appleby to unpack the AI adoption gap in finance. They explore where to start, how to automate repetitive tasks safely, and the roadmap, tools, and metrics finance leaders need to scale AI while protecting data and elevating their teams’ impact