From CFO Daily News: Hiring military veterans for your finance team and your workplace as a whole can give you a major competitive advantage. Vets bring some unique and important traits that can benefit American businesses. Now more than ever. Veterans are no strangers to uncertainty and volatility. Which sounds an awful lot like the business …
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Pre-1960s finance directors, chief accountants and financial controllers were often regarded as mere bean counters, with a responsibility ‘to prepare the books and report back to higher level management on the overall financial risk and performance of the enterprise”. Contemporary accounting literature creates the notion that before the 1960s and 1970s, CFO predecessors (finance directors, …
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From Fin24: The changes that have been occurring in the professional world of work have meant that careers that were considered bankable about a decade ago and now slowly being rendered irrelevant by machines and artificial intelligence that can do the same job. The same goes for accountants. Even World Economic Forum leader Till Leopold …
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By Martin Hiebl, Faculty Member, University of Sigen. The role of the CFO in family versus non-family businesses differs widely. When family businesses (FBs) grow older and larger, they typically employ more non-family managers. Non-family management becomes necessary if there are simply not enough family members available to fill the vacant management positions or if …
An analysis of the background and experience of CFOs in the 10 major European indices. From SpencerStuart. What stands out about this research is that roughly nine out of 10 CFOs in Europe do not have an accounting qualification, and half come from a non-finance background. This should force us to re-examine what skills are …
Organizations that achieved unexpected cost efficiency gains as a result of operational constraints due to the COVID-19 pandemic risk losing these gains needlessly, according to research from Gartner, Inc. The traditional approach of reintroducing costs after a business downturn based on recovered revenue fails to account for permanent shifts in the business environment. There have …
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From WSJ: Companies are setting up programs to improve working capital and cut costs while disclosing few details. The struggles of Greensill Capital have shone a light on the increasing use of supply-chain financing, a tool that gives companies the ability to extend their payment terms to vendors. Regulators and standard-setters are closely watching if …
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From CFO Daily News: We’ve all had to learn to adapt quickly in our personal and professional lives to deal with the realities of the pandemic and help our companies find the best path to prosperity in the “new normal” that emerged in the wake of the initial outbreak. The changes we’ve implemented have been crucial …
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From Cfo.com: Turn 2021 into a year of execution by recognizing these traps that are holding you back. No more excuses. The pandemic’s first year gave leaders some slack: The situation was novel, the challenges unique. Everyone was flying blind. Those days are over. We’re still confronting the crisis, but the adrenaline has worn off. …
A change in finance chiefs brings a fresh set of unflinching eyes to bear when examining risks and opportunities, writes Mark Partin, CFO.com. President John F. Kennedy once commented that the word “crisis,” as written in Chinese calligraphy, involved two brush strokes — one representing danger, the other opportunity. “In a crisis, be aware of …
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