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

Future CFO

The interview is part of FutureCFO's Fem ale Leadership in Finance Series. Kris Giswold (KG): My journey in finance began with my love of puzzles and numbers. I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical.

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James Owen, Global Chief Financial Officer, Profiles Division, Kantar

Generation CFO

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

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Deloitte country CFO: How you can rise through the ranks

Future CFO

The CFO role requires certain traits and skills, said Woranat Dumrongsiri (pictured), Country CFO, Deloitte Thailand and Deloitte Laos during an interview with FutureCFO for the publication’s Female Leadership in Finance Series. I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. My financial career is quite a long journey.

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Error Metrics: How to Evaluate Your Forecasts

Jedox Finance

A friendly warning: This involves some math, which is necessary to explain how these metrics work. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. n is total number of values in the test set. intermittent demand/sales data).

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Girl Scouts Are Bringing mPOS To The Cookie Booth

PYMNTS

Scouts using the mPOS sold almost 30 more boxes than they did last year, Harris said, marking a 4 percent increase over 2018’s numbers. Children who participate in Girl Scouts learn life and leadership skills, and receive an education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and business. Future Entrepreneurs.

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189: Andile Dawn Mbatha

CFO Talks

The IEC, under her leadership, has received a clean audit for the past two financial years. I think what caught my attention is that it’s someone with very good maths skills and I think that’s when it started off and it planted a seed in my heart to say this is exactly what I want to do. I also think it’s very key to be a hands-on CFO.

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181: Imtiyaaz Abdul-Gaffur

CFO Talks

I was always the science kid, I use to love science and math and technology, that was a big thing for me. Yes, as far as financial information and numbers are concerned, we want that to remain fairly stable. Things like team leadership, communication and presentation. Would you agree with that?