Description
Book SynopsisSimplify and streamline your way to a winning legacy Winning CFOs is a hybrid handbook and toolkit with over 100 lean practice solutions and a wealth of practical tools for senior financial managers of small, midsized and large companies.
Table of ContentsAbout the Author ix
Testimonials xi
Introduction xiii
Acknowledgments xxi
Part I: Change—Why the Need and How to Lead
Chapter 1: Getting Your Finance Team Future Ready 3
Chapter 2: Leading and Selling the Change 17
Part II: To Be Completed Before the Next Month-End
Chapter 3: Rapid Month-End Reporting: By Working Day Three or Less 29
Part III: Technologies to Adopt
Chapter 4: Future-Ready Technologies 49
Part IV: Progress You Need to Make Within the Next Six Months
Chapter 5: Reduce Accounts Payable Volumes by 60 Percent 77
Chapter 6: Month-End Reporting Refinements 91
Chapter 7: Lean Reporting—Informatively and Error Free 101
Chapter 8: Lean Board Reporting 135
Chapter 9: A Lean Annual Planning Process—Ten Working Days or Less! 149
Chapter 10: Lean and Smarter Work Methods 177
Chapter 11: Effective Leadership, Growing and Retaining Talent 199
Chapter 12: Quick Annual Reporting: Within 15 Working Days Post Year-End 225
Chapter 13: Managing Your Accounts Receivable 245
Chapter 14: Attracting and Recruiting Talent 249
Chapter 15: Lean Accounting 265
Part V: How Finance Teams Can Help Their Organizations Get Future Ready
Chapter 16: Implementing Quarterly Rolling Forecasting and Planning 281
Chapter 17: Finding Your Organization’s Operational Critical Success Factors 315
Chapter 18: Getting Your KPIs to Work 327
Chapter 19: Reporting Performance Measures 351
Part VI: Areas Where Costly Mistakes Can Be Made
Chapter 20: Performance Bonus Schemes 371
Chapter 21: Takeovers and Mergers 387
Chapter 22: The Hidden Costs of Reorganizations and Downsizing 399
Appendix A: Useful Letters and Memos 409
Appendix B: Rules for a Bulletproof Presentation 419
Appendix C: Satisfaction Survey for a Finance Team 427
Index 435
