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Q&A with finance leader: Lead with context, coach with content

Future CFO

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Straight out of business school in 1995, I joined Mondelez International as a senior financial analyst for Kraft Foods in the United States.

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Deloitte country CFO: How you can rise through the ranks

Future CFO

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. This made me decide to pursue my education in accounting. After graduation, I started my career in finance at Arthur Anderson as an auditor and became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Then I spent three years with Chevron as a regional finance and accounting implementer.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. So they’re, all of our analysts are working in niches.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

In fact, I was going to be a strategist, financial analyst to work for a bank and write research reports. But I found — you know, I was a financial analyst and I was literally — you know, what we talked about, I was going to go and do that again, I loved looking at companies. RIEDER: A100 percent.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

So I definitely think you want to account for that in places like price-to-book in earnings. In academia, he’s known for witty biting papers he writes for such publications as the Financial Analysts Journal.” My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. Is that a word? I’m not sure it’s a word.