Book description
Jeremy Hope says it’s time to redefine the role of CFOs in today’s organizations, liberating them from ineffective number-crunching responsibilities and enabling them to focus on helping managers improve performance. Grounded in extensive research, Reinventing the CFO outlines seven critical roles—from streamlining redundant processes to regulating risk to identifying a few key measures—that CFOs must take on in order to successfully transform the finance operation.
Challenging many of the finance field’s accepted practices and systems, this bold book revolutionizes the role of financial managers and frees them to make smart, ethical, strategic decisions that add real value to the firm.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE - THE CFO AS FREEDOM FIGHTER
- CHAPTER TWO - THE CFO AS ANALYST AND ADVISER
- CHAPTER THREE - THE CFO AS ARCHITECT OF ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
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CHAPTER FOUR - THE CFO AS WARRIOR AGAINST WASTE
- Dismantle Head Office Bureaucracy
- Manage Processes and Flow Rather Than Functions and Activities
- Manage Fixed Costs Through Directional Goals and Ratios Rather Than Cost Budgets
- Make Central Services Responsive to Internal Customers
- Match Capacity to Current Demand
- Ensure That All Projects Are Necessary and Add Value
- CHAPTER FIVE - THE CFO AS MASTER OF MEASUREMENT
- CHAPTER SIX - THE CFO AS REGULATOR OF RISK
- CHAPTER SEVEN - THE CFO AS CHAMPION OF CHANGE
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Product information
- Title: Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles And Add Greater Value
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2006
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781591399452
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