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From Controller to CFO: What Changes?

CFO Talks

Financial Analysis: The CFO decides what financial analysis to do to improve the business and shares these insights with other department heads. It involves trusting your team, delegating effectively, and concentrating on strategic financial planning. It’s about leading, not just managing.

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Comprehensive Guide to FP&A Salaries

The Finance Weekly

FP&A professionals hold a crucial role in shaping a company's overall business strategy by delivering financial analysis and insights to management. The progression from more junior to more senior roles in this chosen field typically follows a certain path.

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Top 10 Reasons Why Considering a Fractional CFO Could be a Transformative Decision

Boston Startup CFO

Sharpening the Focus on Core Competencies: Entrusting financial management to a Fractional CFO allows business owners and management to concentrate on their core competencies and daily operations. The resulting increase in productivity and efficiency can significantly drive overall success.

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What is Quality of Earnings?

CFO Share

A Quality of Earning report, also called a QOE or QofE report, helps investors understand the historic earnings and forward-looking performance of the business through rigorous financial analysis. Sales concentrations and/or backlog risk. Analysis of inventory reserves and allowances. Transactions with related parties.

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Shared services raise the efficiency of the finance function

Future CFO

This allows the organisation’s core finance and accounting (F&A) operations to concentrate on more strategic work, such as financial analysis and planning. "We In the finance function, basic accounting processes like accounts payable, payroll and purchasing are often allocated under the shared services model.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

Currencies are measurement mechanisms, not value-enhancer or destroyers : A good financial analysis or valuation should be currency-invariant, with whatever conclusion you draw when you do your analysis in one currency carrying over into the same analysis, done in different currencies.