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CFO Techniques

A Hands-on Guide to Keeping Your Business Solvent and Successful

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Authors:
  1. Marina Guzik
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  • Offers a comprehensive outline of core functions comprising the job of top financial professionals in small and mid-size commercial entities

  • Addresses the qualitative change of the CFOs' and controllers' scope of responsibility in the constant struggle for commercial survival

  • Provides practical guidelines on structuring, improving, and managing individual functions and tasks

  • One of the few financial books ever that is fun to read

  • Author maintains a blog for CFOs she contributes to regularly

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Scouting Your Surroundings and Defining Your Mission

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. What Is Special About Smaller Businesses?

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 3-8

    3. Titles vs. Job Descriptions

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 9-13

    4. The CFO’s Mission and Aspirations

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 15-19

    5. Eight Balls You Must Keep in the Air

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 21-25

    6. The Essential Knowledge Prerequisites

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 27-32

  3. Enforcing the Law: Policies, Procedures, and Controls

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. System of Internal Control and Company Policies

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 35-41

    3. Generally Accepted Fiscal Policies

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 43-52

    4. Procedures for Quintessential Tasks

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 53-63

    5. The Weakest Link

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 65-75

    6. Budgeting as a Control Mechanism

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 77-83

    7. Controlling Commerce

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 85-91

  4. Deep Pockets: Your Capital Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Options for Capital Financing

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 95-112

    3. Business Nature vs. Financial Resources

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 113-122

    4. Soliciting Investors and Lenders

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 123-130

    5. Nurturing Financial Relationships

      • Marina Guzik
      Pages 131-138

  5. Cash Must Flow: Treasury Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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About this book

CFO Techniques: A Hands-on Guide to Keeping Your Business Solvent and Successful is a comprehensive and instructive working manual for multitasking chief financial officers and controllers working in the fast-paced commercial environment. Every senior financial professional with an ever-broadening span of control will benefit from this complete outline of the core activities—with specific descriptions of individual tasks—comprising the daily agenda of a successful CFO or controller. It covers everything from traditional responsibilities like budgeting and financial reporting, to more innovative tasks like performance analytics and business strategy development.

While emphasizing specific guidelines on what it takes to excel as a company's head of finance, the book refrains from overwhelming dryness by using cultural references, real-life examples, and a casual tone. With its bite-sized, easy-to-read chapters, CFO Techniques serves as both an invaluable desktop reference handbook and a good bedtime read. Whether you need a quick recommendation on treasury procedures, adhering to GAAP, keeping funds safe from embezzlers, or advice on dealing with the CEO, you will find the answers in this book.

  • Guides you through CFO/controller core responsibilities, function by function
  • Serves as a reference manual on financial matters specific to the small and mid-size commercial environment
  • Goes beyond finance and accounting, addressing the administrative and behavioral issues all CFOs occasionally must address 

About the author

Marina Guzik s career in finance and accounting spans 24 years, with the last 17 years in chief financial officer and controller positions in small and mid-size companies. She has worked in both the public and private sectors, including manufacturing, global supply chain, e-commerce, professional services, asset management, and consulting. Marina s functional expertise spans a broad range of tasks and duties, from international treasury to mergers & acquisitions and everything in between. She holds several academic degrees, including a master's in business administration in accounting. She believes in the strength of fundamental knowledge and commercial acumen, which can be intelligently applied to any particular business model.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: CFO Techniques

  • Book Subtitle: A Hands-on Guide to Keeping Your Business Solvent and Successful

  • Authors: Marina Guzik

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3757-0

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Marina Zosya 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-3756-3Published: 22 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-3757-0Published: 25 January 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 380

  • Topics: Business and Management, general

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