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The CFO handbook

by Mark Haskins

Sitting atop a corporation's financial operations, the Chief Financial Officer can be an unseen but nonetheless critical member of the management team. Knowing that strategic decisions made by the CFO often determine whether a corporation will flourish or struggle, savvy financial veterans continually acquire methods to ensure a successful, productive and profitable CFO career. Respected educators, writers and editors Mark E. Haskins and Benjamin R. Makela have completely revised The CFO Handbook, the highly successful collection of articles and essays first published in 1986. In these updated chapters, esteemed CFOs and/or financial professionals describe situations both common and unique which have been encountered in their everyday business. They then present in detail their creative, effective approaches to each situation. Whether you are currently a CFO, aspiring to be a CFO or simply advise or interact with CFOs in your daily business, the essays and articles in The CFO Handbook, Revised Edition will offer diverse but specific insights into the unique approaches of today's successful financial captains.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?