The Accidental CFO

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—–๐—™๐—ข โ€” ๐—” ๐—ก๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ช๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ก๐—ผ ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ

โ€œ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ซ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ.โ€ Last week I wrote about what happens when two systems disagree and somebody quietly decides which one wins. ๐——๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฉ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜€ left a comment that named something worse. He called it the ๐—”๐—ถ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐˜… โ€” the cost of Finance scrutinizing AI-generated data it had no idea was circulatingโ€ฆ

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The Accidental CFO โ€”ย The Worst Guy in the Water

“Stories and lessons from an unexpected journey in finance.” I started surfing this year. I am bad at it. Not charmingly bad. Bad in the way where you spend forty minutes paddling, catch nothing, and come in with your arms shaking and sand in places sand should not be. I have spent thirty years beingโ€ฆ

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The Accidental CFO โ€”ย Nobody Works Harder During the Close

“Stories and lessons from an unexpected journey in finance.” Q3 closes tomorrow. Somewhere in your building, someone is already dreading the next ten days. I’ve taken a close from 45 days to six. I’ve compressed another to four business days โ€” better than a 50% improvement โ€” and redesigned it toward a sustainable five-day standard.โ€ฆ

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