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Quest for balance: CFO Drive, Support and Comply. Robin Fieth, ICAEW Executive Director, Finance & Operations National Conference 2011, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. Quest for balance The CFO – human or superhuman? .
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Quest for balance: CFO Drive, Support and Comply Robin Fieth, ICAEW Executive Director, Finance & Operations National Conference 2011, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka
Quest for balance The CFO – human or superhuman? Robin Fieth, ICAEW Executive Director, Finance & OperationsNational Conference, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, 2011
S.R. Harding, FCA, Deputy Controller, Royal Dutch Shell Group, 1963 We expect a finance manager in an operating company….to wear three hats…… the second as an active (not a non-playing) member of the management team…
The FD’s role is becoming more complex and more demanding …. Board of Chartered Accountants in Business, 1993
A framework of finance activities………. …..and the drivers that shape their implementation
Moral values Motives Commitments Qualities Achievements Behavioural characteristics of integrity Be honest and truthful Be fair Comply with laws Promote communityinterests Be open and adaptable Take corrective action Show consistency
“You start off your career thinking that there are all these gods in the boardroom who are all powerful …….. ….. and you realise fairly early on that they’re just human beings with quite a lot of the frailties that we all have.” Richard Pennycook, Group FD William Morrison Supermarkets
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