February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
15h 57m
English
Content preview from The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Second Edition
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Preface
The second edition of the New CFO Financial Leadership Manual is designed to give the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) a complete overview of his or her place in the corporation, and to provide strategies for how to handle strategic decisions related to a variety of financial, tax, and information technology issues. Some of the questions that Chapters 1 through 4 answer include:
• | What should I do during my first days on the job? |
• | What are my specific responsibilities? |
• | How do I reduce my foreign currency exposure? |
• | How do I increase the company’s return on assets? |
• | When should I issue convertible securities? |
• | What factors should I consider in regard to a step costing decision? |
• | When can I use net operating loss tax carryforwards? |
• | How do I decide which products to eliminate? |
• | How can I use transfer pricing to reduce income taxes? |
• | What specific information technologies should I install for a certain type of business, such as a low-cost producer or rapid product innovator? |
The CFO must also become involved in a variety of accounting topics, though not at the transactional level of detail with which a controller will be occupied. Key areas of concern are the development and maintenance of performance measurement and control systems. The CFO must also interact with the internal and external auditors, while also (if the company is publicly held) making regular reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Chapters 5 through 8 address these topics, and yield answers to all of the ...
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