Reinventing the CFO: Moving from Financial Management to Strategic Management

by Henry Johanson, Thomas Walther, John Dunleavy & Elizabeth Hjelm

Chart your company's course. Reinventing the CFO is the groundbreaking guide by financial veterans Henry Johanson, Thomas Walther, John Dunleavy and Elizabeth Hjelm that offers a proven blueprint for professionals making the enormous shift from ``number cruncher'' to strategist and business partner. Based on Coopers & Lybrand's pioneering Office of the CFO frameworks, it leads you through the live critical steps that will define how you can face today's challenges, like:

Partnering and Integration

Redefining the Role of Finance and Retraining Staff to Understand Business Operations & Market Drivers

Strategy

Applying Traditional Analytical Skills & Business Judgment to the Question: Where Should our Company Apply its Capital Resources?

Management Control

Producing a New Set of Strategic Measures that Business Managers Can Use to Anticipate Problems & Monitor Progress

Cost Management

Creating an Aggressive, Long-Term Least-Cost Program that Replaces ``cost accounting'' and Continuously Drives Costs Down from Within

Processes & Systems

Classifying Each Financial Process as "Core," "Support," or "No added value" and Determining the Real Drivers that Impact the Company's Profitability