Corporate Executive Board Archives - CFO

Five Reasons Why Your Finance Transformation Failed

Five Reasons Why Your Finance Transformation Failed

You focused too much on finance costs and satisfying internal customers, thought of it as a finite project and relied too heavily on consultants.

By David McCann | February 6, 2014

Finance Leaders Bemoan Talent Shortage

Finance Leaders Bemoan Talent Shortage

Corporate finance executives rate few of their direct reports as effective in the behaviors and skills that drive the finance function to excellent performance.

By David McCann | April 24, 2013

How to Structure Your Staff for Success

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How to Structure Your Staff for Success

One key is giving strategically focused areas greater independence, which will generate more ideas and allow CFOs the time to be more strategic themselves.

By Kathy Hoffelder | August 1, 2012

Good Financial Analysts Are Made, Not Born

Good Financial Analysts Are Made, Not Born

They probably won’t know what effective analysis looks like when they show up for work, so CFOs have to teach them. Here’s how.

By David McCann | June 20, 2012

Too Much Data, Too Little Judgment

Too Much Data, Too Little Judgment

Financial planning and analysis staff can&spamp;rsquo;t help CFOs make the right moves until they learn to apply more subjectivity in their analyses.

By David McCann | May 15, 2012

FP&A Peril: Too Much Data, Too Little Judgment

FP&A Peril: Too Much Data, Too Little Judgment

Financial planning and analysis staff can’t begin to give CFOs what they want until they learn to apply more subjectivity in their analyses.

By David McCann | April 23, 2012

Very Big, Yet Hard to See

Very Big, Yet Hard to See

More companies are incorporating strategic risk management into their broader risk programs.

By Sarah Johnson | November 1, 2011