Bigwig Briefs: Become a CFO - The Real World Intelligence to Become a CFO or to Become a Better CFO or Financial Professional [Paperback]

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Book Description

ISBN-10: 1587620731 | ISBN-13: 978-1587620737 | Publication Date: January 1, 2002

Bigwig Briefs: Become a CFO includes knowledge excerpts from some of the biggest name CFOs, accountants and venture capitalists in the world on real world issues faced by every CFO and financial professional. These highly acclaimed professionals explain the secrets behind keeping your financial skills sharp, accounting methods and irregularities, explosive growth, stock options, raising capital, managing risk, working as a financial team, utilizing your "special" financial talents, getting noticed and motivating others. This book features content from the books Inside the Minds: Leading Accountants, Term Sheets & Valuations and Inside the Minds: Internet CFOs, all published by Aspatore.

Praise for Bigwig Briefs: "Easy, insightful reading that can't be found anywhere else." - Domenick Esposito, Vice Chairman, BDO Seidman

"Must have information for business executives." - Alex Wilmerding, Principal, Boston Capital Ventures

Bigwig Briefs features condensed business intelligence from industry insiders and are the best way for business professionals to stay on top of the most pressing issues. Each brief is less than 100 pages, can be read in 1.5-3 hours, and represents the best way for executives to comprehend the most important information on a given topic in the most time efficient manner possible, while also having a valuable resource they can put on their bookshelf to refer back to over the years. Bigwig Briefs features knowledge excerpts from best selling business books published by Aspatore, other leading business book publishers, and essays written by leading executives for inclusion in a particular brief.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Bigwig Briefs features condensed business intelligence from industry insiders and are the best way for business professionals to stay on top of the most pressing issues. Each brief is less than 100 pages, can be read in 2-4 hours, and represents the best way for executives to comprehend the most important information on a given topic in the most time efficient manner possible, while also having a valuable resource they can put on their bookshelf to refer back to over the years. Bigwig Briefs features knowledge excerpts from best selling business books published by Aspatore, other leading business book publishers, and essays written by leading executives for inclusion in a particular brief.

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Aspatore Books (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587620731
• ISBN-13: 978-1587620737
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,094,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, August 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Bigwig Briefs: Become a CFO - The Real World Intelligence to Become a CFO or to Become a Better CFO or Financial Professional (Paperback)

This book should have been titled "Miscellaneous Ramblings of Financial Executives". The title of this book leads one to believe that it contains information on how to steer a career path to reach a CFO position. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Instead, it reads like a bunch of financial executives were paid to sit down for 15 minutes and throw together whatever came to mind. There are a few well written articles in this book but the majority are poorly written. Those that are poorly written tended to contain information that was obvious to anyone who has ever handled money (i.e. even their own). ...

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Rate-Must Read, April 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Bigwig Briefs: Become a CFO - The Real World Intelligence to Become a CFO or to Become a Better CFO or Financial Professional (Paperback)

A great snapshot of issues you deal with as a financial professional.