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Money-Making Job Opportunities in Accounting Career: Exploratory Guide

Strategy Driven

This title demands a deep understanding of finance, and it requires, at the least, a four-year bachelor’s degree in accounting. Bottom tier jobs depend on the level of your education, such as a clerk or bookkeeper’s job demands a high school diploma and an associate degree. Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Bookkeeper.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? ™: How to Future Proof Your Small Business and Improve Your Tech Bottom Line. An excerpt is below.

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You Can't Argue With Crazy | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly. Bottom line…If you can’t avoid the crazies there is still hope…I sincerely believe productive working relationships can be formed with even the most difficult people where there is a sincere desire/need to do so. I Think Not.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

Unlike the world of the CFO, management and staff generally do what they like when it comes to creating and (not) disposing of information, creating a cavernous gap in accountability. It is ultimately up to each of us to make a difference.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

In light of this, an employee is evaluated not based on what she contributed to the company’s bottom line, but whether she identified a new, breakthrough idea. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Customers don’t expect to get bottom-of-the-barrel prices everywhere they go, but they do expect to be treated with respect. Recently I ordered some shoes from Zappos that ended up not fitting.