The holidays are a time for celebrating traditions and reflecting on the year just ended. Here at The Modern Finance Leader, we've developed our own traditions and reflections; every year at this time, we take a look back at the year's most popular stories.

This year's crop ranges from ground-breaking research, to customer success stories, to "how-to" articles, to comparisons between cloud providers. The wide range of interests are a reflection of how the finance profession is expanding to include new skills. Let's begin our list with an extensive study of what the finance leader of tomorrow will look like.