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Finance vs. Accounting

CFO Simplified

While many business owners look for a CFO to bolster their existing accounting team, here at CFO Simplified, we consider that a CFO would be categorized squarely in the finance category. Sometimes the differences are misunderstood because the CFO works with both the Accounting and Finance departments. Growth planning .

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CFOs: Do you drive returns that exceed the cost of capital?

Future CFO

As part of the analysis, Gartner said it studied the performance of 1,142 public companies over an eight-year period and complemented this quantitative analysis with in-depth interviews of large enterprise CFOs. Second, budget holders will potentially ask for increased resources to achieve differentiation.