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Winning CFOs, with Website: Implementing and Applying Better Practices (Wiley Corporate F&A)

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David Parmenter provides great tips on various areas necessary for a successful finance team leader, including CFOs. His best practices related to more timely month-end reporting and quarterly rolling forecasting will improve the ability to monitor financial performance more real-time and more cost-effectively. His suggestions on exemplifying traits of a winning leader remind one of the importance of relationship-building and handling crisis management. His tips on key performance indicators move theory into practice. The checklists and guidance provided are useful to anyone interested in creating a more effective finance and accounting team.

Winning CFOs : Implementing and applying better practices is an update to David's original book, Pareto's 80/20 Rule for Corporate Accountants. This book is not just for CFO's but for anyone who is head of a finance team. The book is packed with great ideas that will guide you through a number of key initiatives to move the finance department from a transaction processing and reporting function, into a function that can provide modern business partnering and support to the rest of the business. David offers clearly written and practical guidance on how to go about implementing these initiatives, including checklists to make sure you address the key points as you go.

From implementing initiatives to reduce the length of the month and year end reporting cycles using 'post it' re-engineering brainstorming sessions, better management of the finance function to implementing quarterly rolling forecasts, and marketing the finance function to other area of the business. This book is a must read to any new finance departmental manager, and there are some great new ideas in here for anyone that has been running a finance function for some time.