CFO Guidance: How to Build Your Relationship with the Board
By Mark Archer
The CFO is one of a company’s key leaders interacting with the Board of Directors, second only in importance to the Chief Executive Officer. A good working relationship between the Board and the CFO is critical to your company’s success. The foundation of that relationship should be built on mutual…Read More
Read MoreHow to Get on a Corporate Board
By Jeff Kuhn
Because part of FLG’s consulting practice is to counsel corporate boards, we’re often asked about how a C-suite executive finds and secures a corporate board seat. The short answer is: “planning, persistence and patience.” Identifying Board Opportunities: Network, Network, Network In many respects the process of finding and being selected…Read More
Read MoreManaging Cybersecurity Risk: The Role of the CFO
By Fuad Ahmad
According to Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime will inflict damages totaling $6 trillion, globally in 2021. Cybercrime costs are projected to increase at an annual rate of 15% over the next 5 years, bringing in more profit to organized crime syndicates than global trade in all illegal drugs. Cybersecurity Risk: The Scope…Read More
Read MoreHow the Audit Committee Chair Helps a Company and Its Board Navigate Through A Crisis Such As COVID-19
By Laureen DeBuono
In my almost 40 years of working as a management and financial executive and serving as an Audit Committee Chair to public companies, I thought I had seen every crisis in the playbook: multiple economic downturns, the 1989 earthquake and its impact on the Bay Area, Y2K, 9/11, and the…Read More
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