Beyond Business Intelligence: How AI Can Diagnose, Forecast and Drive Finance in the Mid-Market (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798183874143)

Management control is closer to clinical medicine than to bookkeeping.

The Controller takes the anamnesis of the business, makes a diagnosis, projects a prognosis, and prescribes a therapy. Artificial intelligence is the new diagnostic instrument - not the physician, but what sharpens the physician's judgment.

Beyond Business Intelligence is a practical, no-hype field guide for the U.S. mid-market Controller, CFO, and FP&A leader. Two years after generative AI entered the mainstream, the finance function has been rewritten - by agentic systems, predictive forecasting, and a new layer of AI governance. This book turns that shift into an actionable playbook.

Inside, across eleven chapters, you will learn how to:

• Tell apart Business Intelligence, AI, generative AI, and agents - and know when each one actually helps
• Build trustworthy data foundations: quality, governance, and lineage
• Apply AI to intelligent costing and AI-enhanced Activity-Based Costing
• Move from the annual budget to a true rolling forecast
• Design adaptive dashboards and use generative AI in reporting
• Measure intangibles and integrate ESG into management control
• Align AI adoption with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and emerging U.S. state law
• Follow a concrete 24-month adoption roadmap and build the competencies the future Controller will need

It includes an extended technical glossary, an annotated bibliography, a U.S. regulatory profile, and twenty ready-to-use prompts you can apply to your own controlling work tomorrow.

Who it's for: management controllers, CFOs, financial controllers, FP&A and finance managers in mid-market companies - and anyone modernizing the finance function with AI.

Written by two practitioners, for practitioners. Concrete examples, no buzzwords.