Aug 31, 2022
The expression “accelerated learning” has been used by a number of our recent CFO guests to distinguish periods within their careers when circumstances demanded a hastened pace of knowledge gain.
For Jamie Britton, this period of time began when an economist at SunTrust Bank pulled him into a conference room and...
Aug 28, 2022
From the very start of our talk with CFO Claire Bramley, she let us know that she has long been part of the bigger conversation represented by the everyday back-and-forth discourse that punctuates decision-making inside a business.
“I’m always saying that If you can’t explain it to the business, if you can’t...
Aug 26, 2022
Steve and Jack discuss how FP&A is becoming a world beyond finance - where data expertise and insights are becoming as widely sought after as traditional accounting skills. Meanwhile, Steve urges finance professionals to take an enlightened view of robotic process automation (RPA). Rather than replace the work...
Aug 24, 2022
When Debbie Schleicher tells us that a football game between the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Clemson Tigers became her door-opener to the CFO office, we can’t help but want to listen.
Back in 2014, she and her family were invited by a former client and serial CEO to one of the most anticipated games of...
Aug 21, 2022
When Flock Freight CFO Pat Dillon thinks back to his investment banking days at Morgan Stanley and considers the variety of CFOs from whom he once sat across, the banking veteran is struck by how at times the CFOs seem to have had little in common with one another.
“What I saw was that their roles could be very...