The New CFOs

How Financial Teams and their Leaders Can Revolutionize Modern Business

Liz Mellon, David C. Nagel, Robert Lippert, Nigel Slack

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780749465179
• eBook ISBN: 9780749465186
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Corporate Finance
• Index: Business

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the spotlight is even more on the role and activities of the CFO. Specifically, CFOs need to accelerate three aspects of their role: develop dynamic and distinctive risk management capabilities, motivate and align increasingly diverse work providers, and design and operate effective financial processes for internal and external customers. The winning CFOs in the next decade will be the ones who get the basics right, who prioritise their efforts, and who invest in the leadership development that creates the institutional capacity to achieve and sustain leading industry performance. CFOs need to embrace the new challenges and opportunities created by the financial crisis. The New CFOs provides the fundamental road map to success in this new environment for finance officers, their teams, and the organizations who employ them.

INDEX

NB: page numbers in italic indicate figures or tables

‘A hard lesson in maintaining control’ (case study) (i)

Apple (i)

‘Applying a process perspective to the legal profession’ (case study) (i)

Bank of America (i)

Bank of England (i)

Basel Committee on Bank Supervision (i)

BASEL II and BASEL III (banking regulations) (i)

Bhatia, Mohit (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

‘black swan’ events (i)

Black-Scholes (i)

business level reporting and monitoring (control pyramid) (i), (ii)

overview (i)

UBM example (i)

UBS example (i)

business process reengineering (BPR) (i), (ii), (iii)

Business Week (i)

case studies

‘A hard lesson in maintaining control’ (i)

‘Applying a process perspective to the legal profession’ (i)

‘CFO leadership’ (i)

‘Don’t get bogged down in the daily grind’ (i)

‘Risk creeps up on you’ (i)

‘Too professional for process?’ (i)

‘You’re here to keep the score’ (i)

‘CFO leadership’ (case study) (i)

CFO Research Services (i)

commodity prices (i)

communication (i), (ii)

and authenticity (i)

body language (i)

‘elevator speech’ (i), (ii)

imagery (i)

status and presence (i)

story-telling (i)

competitive positioning (i)

continuous improvement (i), (ii)

business proce...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Imprint
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 01. Becoming a custodian of value
• 02. Strategic leadership
• 03. The finance factory
• 04. Establishing and maintaining robust controls
• 05. Deepening and spreading risk management
• 06. Growing value through investment
• 07. A custodian of value
• Appendix: The finance spectrum
• Index
• Full imprint