The title of this article is more than a little misleading. The future is now—effective CFOs not only know this, they strive to bring the…
CPAs Acting as Interim CFOs
How to Manage the Risk
Imagine a hypothetical CPA, Franklin Connors, providing bookkeeping and tax services to an equally hypothetical fast-growing online retailer named Cats Eats, which sells gourmet pet…
Much has been written over the past several years, and especially in the last few months, about the evolving role of the CFO in the…
Top Challenges Facing Not-For-Profit CFOs Today
Revisiting the Toughest Challenges
In April 2017, the authors wrote “Top Challenges Facing Not-For-Profit CFOs Today.” The intent of the article was to affirm how complex and diverse the…
How to Avoid Running Afoul of the SEC
Part 1: The CFO as Control Person
In Brief SEC enforcement initiatives can take the form of targeting specific executives at issuers for violations of the securities laws. In this first of…
Much has been written over the past several years, and especially in the last few months, about the evolving role of the CFO in the…
The Chief Information Security Officer
The New CFO of Information Security
Traditionally, CPAs have considered the chief financial officer (CFO) as the guardian of a business's organizational data. It was and remains the CFO's responsibility to…
People today live with more uncertainty than in the past. To some extent, this is because new technology and vehicles of communication, not to mention…
Much has been written over the past several years, and especially in the last few months, about the evolving role of the CFO in the…
How to Avoid Running Afoul of the SEC
Part 2: The Internal Controls Cases
In Brief In early 2014, the SEC's enforcement director said that the agency's investigators “were planning to pursue some internal control-related cases,” noting that this…