Corona-proofing 2020 Budgets: A Resilient Forecast
By Jeff Kuhn
[This article originally published 4-17-2020 by Suzy Taherian in Forbes] Most companies prepared their annual budget for 2020 sometime in late 2019. Those budgets are now irrelevant. In this time of unprecedented uncertainty, it is difficult to forecast the future and nail down budgets. Here is how to build a…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
Read MoreManaging Through a Crisis: A CFO’s Guidance
By Eric Hall
CFOs are unlike other employees. Most of us toil in the background while sales, marketing, and products get more attention. Crises, however, really get a CFO’s blood pumping. We’re suddenly in the spotlight being called on to raise or conserve cash, slash expenses, and keep the company solvent. Our knowledge…Read More
Read MoreMemo to the C-Suite: Do the Opposite of What your Gut is Telling You
By Greg Curhan
This too shall pass……But don’t stick your head in the sand while you are waiting Thoughts for Corporate Officers (CEO, CFO) of publicly-traded companies from the perspective of an experienced Public Company Corporate Officer, Sell-Sider (Analyst, Banker, Institutional Salesman) and Buy-Sider (Hedge Fund Manager) Ancient Chinese Curse “May you live…Read More
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