If plans, budgets, and forecasts are only to play with numbers, surely the CFO is only paying attention to reports that he has always handled, usually around financial accounting and forgetting the importance of management accounting.

The planning process is the reflec...

Unfortunately, many CFOs remain unconcerned in their confusing involvement supporting strategic planning and budgeting process. Their focus on revenue centers, cost centers and some useless standards is an evil that afflicts many finance teams, and what is worse, this...