What skills do you think an aspiring CFO needs most?
CFOs can come from various backgrounds. They'll need to develop expertise in areas like financial planning and analysis. It helps if you have been the controller of a unit, run a subsidiary, and have M&A, tax, and audit experience. By growing up through the General Motors treasurer's office, I was fortunate to get experience in most of those areas.
MasterCard's Martina Hund-Mejean
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Inside the October 2008 Issue
Cover Story
- Dear Mr. President
Features
- Now What?
- The Champ Feels Some Heat
- Battered But Not Broken
- Back to the Drawing Board
- Benefits: Adult Education
Also Inside
- Sticker Symbols
- You Say You Want a Revolution
- Convergence Divergence
- Street Fright
- The Jury's Out
- Cut or Grow? It Depends
- Doing the Limbo
- Swing Time
- Power Points
- No Money-Saver
- A Chicken and Nest-Egg Problem
- Discontent Runs High
- Business Outlook Survey
- View from Europe
- Cash, Credit, or Cell Phone?
- How'm I Doing?
- Hostiles Take Over
- And They're Off! (But Should You Worry?)
- MasterCard's Martina Hund-Mejean
- Leaving Home
- Can Ex-CFOs Save Freddie & Fannie?
- Enron: Another Final Chapter
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