What's the difference between a finance analyst, finance manager, finance business partner, and a CFO❓ Well it's a trick question. They are all FBP roles for me, on the basis that FBP means: 1️⃣ building relationships 2️⃣ turning data into insights 3️⃣ bringing...
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How would marketing present the P&L account?
Do you want to become a FD or CFO❓ Here’s another tip that helped me… ❌ marketeers know that the worst way to bring numbers to life is to… …use a table of numbers ✅ the best way is to pick the 3️⃣ most important numbers, and make them big The average finance...
Ever wondered why you’re left out of the important discussions?
Ever wondered why you’re left out of the important discussions❓…this could be the reason 👇🏻 Commercial decisions are rarely, if ever, made based on a budget. Commercial decisions are based on: ✅ what’s happening in the market NOW, not what we budgeted for ✅ what our...
CFOs know how to make it rain harder and longer. Do you?
CFOs know how to make it rain harder and longer. Do you❓ I think there are 4 types of people in any organisation: 1️⃣ The ones that make it rain in the first place 2️⃣ The ones that help make it rain harder and longer 3️⃣ The ones that catch the rain in a bucket and...
CFOs know how to get promoted. Do you?
CFOs know how to get promoted. Do you❓ Every job I had on my way to FD I did these 3 things: 1️⃣ DELEGATE I would push down between 50% and 95% that was handed over to me to my team. The bigger my teams got, the higher the % got. This freed up my time to do new...
Does becoming a CFO or FD come down to your answer to this single question?
➡️ Would you rather be directionally right or precisely wrong❓ As accountants we are trained to be precise. To find the single right answer. ➡️ CFOs become CFOs because we realise way before we become CFOs that there are rarely ever precise, perfect, or right answers....
Things great CFO/FDs don’t say
Things great CFO/FDs don’t say ❌ Costs too much ❌ Not in the budget ❌ No Questions great CFO/FDs say instead ✅ What’s the return? ✅ How do we best fund this? ✅ How can we get this to a yes or yes if.... Changing your language will totally change the way people see you...
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