It was difficult to pick one story this week, so we picked five. (See below.)
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This week’s must reads all came from Mark P. Borman, who is a CFO, an audit chair, and a NACD board leadership fellow, among other roles. Here’s his profile on LinkedIn.
One of four favorite nominations of Borman’s was a Deloitte piece on “How to Calculate Technical Debt.”
As the writer explains, “technical debt” refers to the accumulated costs and long-term consequences of using poor coding techniques, making quality/time trade-offs, delaying routine maintenance, and employing other suboptimal IT practices in the enterprise.
Given the procrastination of some firms in upgrading their finance department’s systems, we think it is a timely piece. And it actually dovetails nicely with John Parkinson’s piece this week on CFO, “Finance: Processing Like It’s 1995.”
Here are the four other stories that you may want to take a look at this weekend:
Reformers Try to Tackle the #Tax Machine http://t.co/Vws2owxyiq @nytimes HT @dailyfei #corpgov #CEO #CFOMustRead pic.twitter.com/EiU8F3cVN1
— Mark P. Borman (@MPBorman) February 17, 2015
Activist investors actually protect the status quo @FortuneMagazine http://t.co/Ur5zjsglkY #corpgov #CEO #CFOMustRead pic.twitter.com/VpiFbwQ2HL
— Mark P. Borman (@MPBorman) February 19, 2015
Internet of Things Risk & Value Considerations http://t.co/x5SJJMCJd2 @ISACANews #corpgov #IoT #CFOMustRead #UX #CX pic.twitter.com/SMLnXt4owL
— Mark P. Borman (@MPBorman) February 15, 2015
How to Seize Opportunities When #Megatrend's Collide @stratandbiz http://t.co/Ey8DybhhDp #corpgov #CEO #CFOMustRead pic.twitter.com/nOSIueC2sL
— Mark P. Borman (@MPBorman) February 19, 2015
Keep the nominations coming.