If you’re not thinking of planning as a strategic advantage for your business, then you’re not viewing it in the right light. Because more and more, business planning needs to be comprehensive, accurate, and insightful. The quality of your business planning is so vital that it can spell the difference between success and failure.
The life of a finance team during budget season is arduous and often frustrating. CFOs tasked with budget presentations often find themselves explaining numbers and assumptions that are far out of date by the time they stand before key stakeholders. Outdated, static budgeting processes simply cannot keep up with today’s lightning-fast economic environment.
I really enjoyed the insight I could bring from taking a very big issue and distilling into very simple terms.
There’s a lot of companies that wait too long to hire a CFO, and maybe they don’t know what the CFO should do.
