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THE VALUE OF A CFO TO A *SME By Chris Carl Regional Director at The CFO Centre *Small and Medium Enterprise While the first answer that pops into your head is very much a matter of your own context, if you are like most people in an SME, your thoughts probably fall simultaneously into two […]

At an age when they should (or we just wish they would) hang up their leather pants and retire disgracefully, more and more ancient rockers are embarking on yet another tour. This year alone, the Rolling Stones (of course!), Madonna, The Who, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Pearl Jam, Queen and even Ringo Starr are performing […]

Published by The Globe and Mail on 25/04/16 In the past decade, the classic image of the number-crunching chief financial officer has all but vanished to make way for the more nimble, generally trained, modern CFO. The expectations for these financial executives from investors and employers are high, but the skill sets and work environments […]

I work with a team of 10 high calibre Finance Directors across the North of England. Each of them is accredited by one of the major chartered Institutes and each of them used to work for successful companies as ‘traditional’ Finance Directors. By traditional, I mean that each of them used to work as the […]

Rolling Back The Years… The comedian Barry Cryer tells a story about a Finance Director walking down the street. The FD is approached by a homeless man. “Excuse me, mate” says the man “can you spare me a few quid, I haven’t eaten for two weeks”? “ I see” says the FD “And how does […]

You might well know how to grow (i.e. do more of the things that are working for you, and do them better) but as a seasoned entrepreneur, you tend to instinctively want to hold back a bit… Why? It’s chiefly a case of paranoia… Business owners tend to be more paranoid than they let on. […]

Colin Mills – Founder & CEO, The FD Centre Limited (www.thefdcentre.co.uk) So, to be a highly effective FD in your business, you have to be up to date on all the latest accounting standards, be really up to speed on the latest developments in tax legislation and spend long hours in your office reviewing reconciliations […]