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The Financial Controller and CFO's Toolkit: Lean Practices to Transform Your Finance Team, 3rd Edition

The Financial Controller and CFO's Toolkit: Lean Practices to Transform Your Finance Team, 3rd Edition

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  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons_
  • ISBN: 9781119286547
  • Published In: September 2016
  • Format: Hardback , 464 pages
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    Simplify and streamline your way to a winning legacy

    Winning CFOs is a hybrid handbook and toolkit with over 100 lean practice solutions and a wealth of practical tools for senior financial managers of small, midsized and large companies. This book outlines the mindset of paradigm shifters relevant to future-ready finance teams, and contains guidelines on how to become an effective change leader. Guidance from world leading expert David Parmenter provides the insight and tools you need to reach your true leadership potential and achieve more for your organization. Packed with templates and checklists, this book helps you adhere to the best practices in reporting, forecasting, KPIs, planning, strategy, and technology. The companion website—a complete toolbox for positive, entrenched change—gives you access to additional resources that reinforce the Winning CFO strategy.

    This new second edition has been updated to reflect the latest practices and technology to streamline your workflow and get more done in less time—without sacrificing quality or accuracy. As an all-in-one resource for the CFO role, this book provides a clear, practical strategy for demonstrating your value to your organization.

    • Selling and leading change effectively
    • Get more accurate information from your KPIs
    • Attracting, recruiting and retaining talented staff
    • Invest in and implement new essential tools
    • Investing wisely in 21st century technologies

    Report the month-end within three days, implement quarterly rolling forecasting, complete the annual plan in two weeks or less, and bring your firm into the 21st century with key tools that get the job done. Be the CFO that your organization needs and the leader that your teams deserve. Winning CFOs gives you everything you need to achieve more by doing less.

  • About the Author ix

    Testimonials xi

    Introduction xiii

    Acknowledgments xxi

    PART I: CHANGE—WHY THE NEED AND HOW TO LEAD

    Chapter 1: Getting Your Finance Team Future Ready 3

    Chapter 2: Leading and Selling the Change 17

    PART II: TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE NEXT MONTH-END

    Chapter 3: Rapid Month-End Reporting: By Working Day Three or Less 29

    PART III: TECHNOLOGIES TO ADOPT

    Chapter 4: Future-Ready Technologies 49

    PART IV: PROGRESS YOU NEED TO MAKE WITHIN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS

    Chapter 5: Reduce Accounts Payable Volumes by 60 Percent 77

    Chapter 6: Month-End Reporting Refinements 91

    Chapter 7: Lean Reporting—Informatively and Error Free 101

    Chapter 8: Lean Board Reporting 135

    Chapter 9: A Lean Annual Planning Process—Ten Working Days or Less! 149

    Chapter 10: Lean and Smarter Work Methods 177

    Chapter 11: Effective Leadership, Growing and Retaining Talent 199

    Chapter 12: Quick Annual Reporting: Within 15 Working Days Post Year-End 225

    Chapter 13: Managing Your Accounts Receivable 245

    Chapter 14: Attracting and Recruiting Talent 249

    Chapter 15: Lean Accounting 265

    PART V: HOW FINANCE TEAMS CAN HELP THEIR ORGANIZATIONS GET FUTURE READY

    Chapter 16: Implementing Quarterly Rolling Forecasting and Planning 281

    Chapter 17: Finding Your Organization’s Operational Critical Success Factors 315

    Chapter 18: Getting Your KPIs to Work 327

    Chapter 19: Reporting Performance Measures 351

    PART VI: AREAS WHERE COSTLY MISTAKES CAN BE MADE

    Chapter 20: Performance Bonus Schemes 371

    Chapter 21: Takeovers and Mergers 387

    Chapter 22: The Hidden Costs of Reorganizations and Downsizing 399

    Appendix A: Useful Letters and Memos 409

    Appendix B: Rules for a Bulletproof Presentation 419

    Appendix C: Satisfaction Survey for a Finance Team 427

    Index 435

  • DAVID PARMENTER is an international presenter who is known for his thought-provoking and lively sessions resulting in substantial change in many organizations.

    David is a leading expert on lean finance team practices, rolling forecasting and planning, and the development of winning KPIs. His work on KPIs is recognized internationally as a breakthrough in understanding how to make performance measures work. He has delivered interactive workshops in 31 countries over the last 20 years. Parmenter has worked for Ernst & Young, BP Oil Ltd., Arthur Andersen, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is a regular writer for professional and business journals.

    He is also the author of Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs; Key Performance Indicators for Government and Non Profit Agencies: Implementing Winning KPIs; and The Leading-Edge Manager's Guide to Success (all published by Wiley).

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