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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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How To Accelerate Client Growth As An Advice-Only Firm

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And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. And a little bit of accountability, making sure that people are doing their implementation because they’re the ones responsible for it.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

Joel Tillinghast : Well, okay, G, when he was six, my grandfather, who was a bookkeeper accountant at a textile mill died and my grandmother was a second string violin at the Providence Symphony Orchestra, which didn’t pay well then, and I suspect didn’t pay well now. And I was a math nerd as a kid. Tell us about that.