The CFO with Many Hats
When I was a teenager, a visit to an accounting office was where I first became interested in technology. What really struck me was that the accountants got to use computers all day to do their work. Sure, I tinkered on machines back then, and even built computers for my friends, but it wasn’t working with the hardware that hooked me. It was the idea that technology could be used to get work done. Today, technology isn’t just how work gets done, it’s how business operates, and it can be leveraged by modern CFOs to help them achieve success in an environment that requires them to wear many hats.
Just have a look at the speaker agenda for the MN Society of CPAs Management and Business Advisors Conference agenda for this year, and you can pick out some of these hats: finance, compliance, risk management and cybersecurity, strategy, planning and budgeting, technology, and last but not least, developer of the organization and its people. Success for modern CFOs means that they need to orchestrate these many roles while directing a cohesive business strategy, but they know they can’t do it alone.
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