CFO TALK - Evaluating Our Most Valuable Resource with Dave Bookbinder

Dave Bookbinder, a business valuation expert, author of the new ROI Return on Individuals and host of the Behind the Number show delivers an insightful message on how leaders can manage their talent as their most important asset, rather than the traditional method of treating talent as an expense.

In fact, Dave argues our accounting methods in general do a poor job of capturing the true value of human capital.

Watch Dave’s CFO Talk for more on evaluating our most valuable resource.

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When Do Spreadsheets Serve the Needs of Finance Operations?

“I have my spreadsheet, you have your spreadsheet, everybody else has their spreadsheets, and none of them talk to each other.” This statement from Bruce Lynn, Managing Partner of The FECG LLC, is more accurate now than it has ever been. Spreadsheets are ubiquitous and work well for prototyping and managing operations at a small scale. Almost 1.5 billion users globally use different types of spreadsheets (like MS Excel, Google Spreadsheets) to meet their operational needs. On the other hand, spreadsheets tend to be extremely limiting as the scale and complexity of operations increase.

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CFO TALK - Managing Transformational Change with Nilly Essaides

In this episode of CFO Talk, Nilly Essaides, Managing Director of Research & Insight at NeuGroup, and Steve discuss the evolving role of the CFO and the finance function in the face of the transformational change taking place in their businesses.

Nilly recently published research on the topic (link below) and shares insights from the study on this episode of CFO Talk.

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CFO TALK - The Analytics Business Partner - with Jesper Hybholt Sorensen

In this CFO Talk Jesper describes the next evolution in finance partnering, the Analytics Business Partner, as the intersection of great communication skills and powerful insights.

He provides the roadmap for how finance leaders can make the case and create the budget for building a great analytics team.

He answers the question what tools belong in the Analytics Business Partner’s toolbox.

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