CFO Survival Guide : Plotting the Course to

You're already a technical expert in accounting, and probably finance, or you wouldn't occupy (or be aiming for) the CFO chair. However, accounting experts now acknowledge that technical competency alone isn't enough to be competitive. You need more to stand out in the field.

Catherine Stenzel, MST, MBA, and Joe Stenzel, MD, are full-time ontologists and Editors in Chief of the Journal of Cost Management, a bimonthly RIA Group periodical. They are also codirectors of Genesis Organizational Diagnostics, which provides cost and performance consulting services focused on government, healthcare, and higher education.

FOREWORD

ix

PREFACE: BEING THE ONE WHO COUNTS

xi

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

xix

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

xx

ABOUT THE WEB SITE

xxiii

CHAPTER 1 The Profession and the Reality

1

(32)

An Account of the Profession

3

(3)

Who We Are

6

(10)

Who We Are Becoming

16

(8)

Being the One Who Counts: Underlying Assumptions

24

(1)

Accountability Requires Maturity

24

(2)

Transparency, Learning, and Meaning

26

(1)

Numerical Realities and Other Oxymorons

26

(2)

Cost, Spending, and Other Inequalities

28

(1)

Value Anyone?

29

(1)

Notes

30

(3)

CHAPTER 2 Development: The Science of Becoming

33

(36)

The Science of Becoming

38

(2)

Development Essentials

40

(4)

Moral Development

44

(3)

Psychosocial Development

47

(5)

The Natural Human Maturity Sequence: Learn,

Experience, Develop

52

(2)

Learn Skills

54

(5)

Experiential Knowledge

59

(4)

CFO Technical Skill and Management

Experience Assessment

63

(4)

Notes

67

(2)

CHAPTER 3 In the Company of the CFO: Maturity, Leadership Competency Development, and Workplace Applications

69

(54)

CFO Maturity-Essence and Function

70

(5)

Developing Professional Maturity and Leadership Competencies

75

(14)

Applying Awareness: Self-Management and Relationship Management

89

(20)

Leadership Competencies-Finding Them and Keeping Them

109

(1)

People, Their Organizations, and Their Work Environments

110

(9)

In the Heart of the Helix

119

(1)

Notes

120

(3)

CHAPTER 4 Working with the Accounting/Finance Function

123

(78)

Forging Functional Identity

126

(1)

Replace Yourself

127

(2)

Assessing Current Conditions

129

(6)

A Guide to the AFF Readiness Diagnostic

135

(8)

Using the Diagnostic

143

(4)

General Business: Process Improvement

147

(10)

General Business: Performance Measurement and Management

157

(4)

Cost Management: Cost Accounting System

161

(13)

Financial Accounting: Month-End Close and

Income Statement

174

(1)

Triple Helix and Psychosocial Development at Work in the AFF

174

(24)

Running the AFF

198

(2)

Notes

200

(1)

CHAPTER 5 Working Governance: Leadership Maturity in Action

201

(64)

Corporate History Cliff Notes

202

(3)

Olympian Executives

205

(5)

Governance

210

(6)

The Five Interdependent Governance Alliances

216

(2)

Assessing Organizational Governance Maturity

218

(3)

First Governance Alliance: The CEO-CFO

221

(14)

The Second Governance Alliance: The CFO and Executive Counsel

235

(13)

Degrees of Separation: The Third, Fourth, and Fifth Governance Alliances

248

(14)

Notes

262

(3)

CHAPTER 6 Working

265

(44)

The CFO at Large

267

(1)

Sustainability in Natural Systems

268

(11)

Enter the CFO: Step One to a Democratic Workplace

279

(4)

Work In Process-Steps Two and Three Toward a Democratic Workplace

283

(6)

Workforce Readiness

289

(1)

CFO, Gatekeeper of the Public Good: The Fourth Step to a Democratic Workplace

290

(4)

The Representative CFO In the Democratic Workplace-Step Five

294

(5)

Wealth Distribution: Steps Six and Seven In the Democratic Workplace

299

(4)

Survival Patterns

303

(2)

Notes

305

(4)

INDEX

309

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