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Future CFOs must embrace AI, anticipate change: Telangana official
Future CFOs must embrace AI, anticipate change: Telangana official
Telangana Special Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao told the CII Telangana CFO Conclave in Hyderabad that future chief financial officers must anticipate change and adopt artificial intelligence rather than just react. "Machines…
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Telangana Special Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao told the CII Telangana CFO Conclave in Hyderabad that future chief financial officers must anticipate change and adopt artificial intelligence rather than just react. "Machines will always do the arithmetic, the question is whether we will do the thinking," he said, urging finance leaders to evolve from process managers to strategic leaders. Rao noted Telangana's budget grew from Rs 60,000 crore to Rs 2.4 lakh crore and the state aims to become a $3-trillion economy by 2047.
The Indian Opinion
The recurring advice that CFOs must become 'strategic leaders' often overlooks the real pressure of quarterly earnings. Punch lines about 'machines doing arithmetic' sound wise but evade the hard trade-offs: a CFO who bets big on AI while managing margin erosion faces a different test than one in a booming sector. Watch how many of these conclave speakers actually increase AI spend in their own 2026 budgets, that number will separate aspiration from action.
Source: thehindu.com
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