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Societe Generale Names Didier Valet as New cfo: PARIS (Reuters) - Societe Generale (SOGN), the French bank hit by a rogue trading scandal, said Didier Valet would become its new chief financial officer. Valet, a 40-year old graduate of the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique who has been with SocGen since 2000, will...; Tags: Investment, rogue, trader, lawyer, stock market, Paris, stock, Thomson Reuters Corp., bank; News items 2008-05-09
Financial Research: The Customer Isn't Always Right: One of the most thankless jobs on Wall Street has to be the securities analyst. You have to dig up fresh information on a company that may not want it to be known, and often the company is a client of your employer. You have to sift through a lot...; Tags: Financial, Analyst, Financial Research, CFO, Forecasting, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Kevin Kelleher; Blog posts 2008-04-12
Can cfos Keep a Foot in Strategy Post-SOX?: Today's CFO takes on duties that used to be the preserve of the chief operating officer, consulting with the CEO about the firm's long-term strategy. Often, the rearward-looking duties - such as accounting - are passed to a comptroller. Two factors have produced this evolution in the CFO's role. First,...; Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., CFO, financial regulation, foreign-exchange, decision-making, strategy, financial, consulting, accounting, environment; White papers
Strategy, Value Creation, and the cfo: What is the organization's strategy? How does this strategy create real financial value? What role does one play in the value-creation process? These are questions every CFO should be asking since, having solid financial discipline, they're in the best position to link strategy to execution and financial success. In order...; Tags: BetterManagement.com, CFO, strategy, financial; White papers
How to Keep Your HR Budget From Being Cut: HR needs to recognize (if it doesn't already) that during tight times the CFO and managers alike all want one basic thing. And that thing is... increased productivity which they define as results or outputs per dollar spent. Incidentally they don't particularly care how it's done, as long as it...; Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, product development, CFO, Human Resources, customer satisfaction, consulting, sales; White papers

Decision-Making And The Changing Role Of The cfo: While chief financial officers see it as a critical capability, many feel the decision-making process in their own organisations is chronically under-managed. Except for a few types of decisions, such as acquisitions or new product developments, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) said much decision-making was quite informal, something with which they...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making, CFO, New Product Development, acquisition; White papers 2005-12-21
Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT): Reinventing The cfo: To break free from generally accepted practices and systems takes belief and courage. But the CFO should be encouraged by the numbers of organizations that are making these changes. Many are getting the message about information overload and fewer are being seduced by all embracing panaceas and IT systems. They...; Tags: Financial accounting, CFO, finance, advisor, game, information technology; Case studies 2007-10-30
Eric Connaughton: Getting Your Books in Order: It's not sexy, and it's not cool, but every business needs to have a handle on its financial facts. Eric Connaughton is an account executive at Robert Half Management Resources, the world's premiere provider of senior level finance and account executives on a project or interim basis. Here, he talks...; Tags: Financial accounting, finance, financial; Videos 2007-11-12
The Global cfo Study 2008: Most companies that experienced a negative event don't have a program for controlling risk. Why not? Find out in The Global CFO Study 2008 from IBM. This study, conducted in cooperation with Wharton Business School and the Economist Intelligence Unit, explores how CFOs can help balance risk and performance...; Tags: Performance management, CFO, IBM Corp., performance; White papers 2007-10-01
Chief Financial Officer: The Chief Financial Officer job description template includes the following job summary: To direct and oversee all the financial activities of the corporation including preparation of current financial reports as well as summaries and forecasts for future business growth and general economic outlook. Additional information available includes essential job functions,...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, CFO, job, financial; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
The Finance Talent Challenge: How Leading cfos are Taking Charge: A global study, conducted by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and the Economist Intelligence Unit, demonstrates how leading chief financial officers (CFOs) are leveraging talent in finance to assume a more strategic role. The study, which surveyed more than 600 senior finance executives and business leaders representing every major industry and...; Tags: Financial accounting, Workforce management, Deloitte & Touche, finance, talent, CFO, strategy, industry; White papers 2007-09-09
The (White) Male-Dominated World of Finance?: CFO Magazine's June 2007 edition includes a story on workplace diversity that shows there's been little growth of minorities in the financial world. The article shares the experience of Oscar Munoz, the CFO for CSX Corp, who was on vacation at a resort hotel and was asked by a white...; Tags: Gender and diversity, Financial accounting, Leslie Leite, finance; Blog posts 2007-06-01
The Superstar cfo: Optimizing an increasingly complex role: Chief financial officers are under greater pressure, scrutiny, and accountability at companies large and small. The demands of both internal and external stakeholders -- including CEOs and boards, activist investors, regulators, customers, business managers, and functional managers -- continue to expand, and seemingly everyone expects more from companies and their...; Tags: Financial accounting, SAP AG, CFO, accountability, business strategy, finance, board; White papers 2007-05-01
Thinking Through Uncertainty: cfos Scrutinize Non-Financial Risk: All risk is ultimately financial. Risks can impact the top and bottom line and eventually every risk is expressed in the company's share price. CFOs are increasingly getting involved in the art -- and the science -- of non-financial risk management. The companies profiled in this paper...; Tags: Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial services, SECURITY, IBM Corp., risk management, CFO, risk, Human Resources, financial, performance; White papers 2007-06-12
How to Sell to a cfo: A few weeks ago, I explained how to sell to a CEO. Now I'll explain how to sell to the CFO. While a CEO is generally concerned with strategy and running the company, a CFO is usually interested a value proposition (usually cost-savings) backed with hard numbers and...; Tags: Sales strategy, Geoffrey James, analysis, Rule #1; Blog posts 2007-08-08
Breathing Lessons (How cfos Can Thrive Under Pressure): Straight Talk Book Series: CFOs (Chief Financial Officers) nowadays find themselves scrambling in more directions than a good bartender on New Year's Eve. And no wonder. Pressures for accountability and performance have never been higher. The truth is, the job itself is getting out of hand. The disintegration of the Chief Operating Officer role...; Tags: Deloitte & Touche, CFO, accountability, performance, job; White papers 2006-12-14
The Agile cfo: Enabling the innovation path to growth: Agile CFOs are realizing that they hold a unique and critical position in enabling innovation that matters. CFOs should expand their roles from an historically oriented stance to a proactive participant in driving innovation, change and growth. CFOs who do stand to drive their companies into leadership positions. This paper...; Tags: IBM Corp., CFO, innovation, leadership, finance; White papers 2006-11-20
Records Management: A Sleeping Giant: Not long ago, most CFOs regarded records management as a minor administrative function, and not one that finance should particularly be concerned about. Finance executives were usually content to let company records gather dust. These days, though, CFOs are brushing the cobwebs off their organization's records systems and taking a...; Tags: Managerial accounting, Penton Media Inc., records management, CFO, finance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; White papers 2006-03-01
2006 cfo Outlook: A Survey of What Manufacturing Finance Chiefs Expect: Nearly three out of four manufacturing chief financial officers (73 percent) expect their company's revenues to increase in the coming year - and nearly half (46 percent) predict increased profit margins. That's according to the eighth annual survey of mid-size and large U.S. manufacturing company CFOs commissioned by Bank of...; Tags: Bank of America Corp., CFO, manufacturing, survey, profit margin, M&A, financing; White papers 2005-12-01
cfo Act of 1990: Driving the Transformation of Federal Financial Management: In 1990, the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act, heralded as the most comprehensive financial management reform legislation in 40 years, was enacted. The Act's goal is to improve management through reliable, useful, and timely financial and performance information for day-to-day decision-making and accountability. This report outlines the legislative history of...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Government Accountability Office, financial management, CFO, accountability, financial, decision-making, performance; White papers 2005-11-17