Introduction

What It Takes to Succeed as a CFO, or How Long Is Your Hat Rack?

In the past ten years, quite a few business books and articles have come out with demands for CFOs and controllers to reinvent themselves. The authors implore us to stop being bean counters and refashion ourselves as strategists and tacticians. We hear the same call for dramatic changes from speakers during conferences and professional gatherings. It resonates deeply among us. Oh, how we long to rise above our daily routines and into the realm of meetings with agendas full of abstract conceptualizations.

Well, that is all the time we have for dreams. Let's get back to Earth, roll up our sleeves, and attend to the reality. This book is not for Fortune 500 CFOs with ...

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