The CFO's Cloud Problem: AI Costs, Margin Risk, and the Governance Gap

Cloud infrastructure is one of your largest cost categories, and with AI workloads accelerating, it's growing faster than most finance teams can forecast. Yet while payroll, leases, and revenue recognition all have clear governance frameworks, cloud spend remains the exception: inconsistently classified, difficult to predict, and hard to explain to your board.

This session changes that. Todd Gardner (SaaSonomics) and Ed Barrow (Cloud Capital) will walk through the trends driving cloud and AI infrastructure costs, why traditional approaches to budgeting and classification are breaking down, and how finance leaders can take control, starting now.

This webinar also marks the public launch of the Cloud Infrastructure Accounting Standards (CIAS), an interpretive framework developed with a council of SaaS CFOs and accountants, aligned to ASC 606, ASC 842, ASC 350-40, and COSO Principle 10.

Whether you're managing $500K or $50M in annual cloud spend, this is the governance structure your finance stack has been missing.