
There Are More Women CFOs Than Ever Before. What More Needs To Be Done?
The number of female CFOs rose dramatically last year. But what do the numbers really tell us?

The number of female CFOs rose dramatically last year. But what do the numbers really tell us?

The head of finance for the company behind some of the biggest teams in sports is focused on winning on the field—and on the balance sheet.

At our CFO Leadership Council’s annual meeting in Boston this week, the CFO of global pharma powerhouse AstraZeneca shared lessons from a most unusual—and successful—career. ‘You won’t please everybody all the time.’

From how you focus your knowledge base to how you’re managing technology, finance chiefs need to take new steps today to stay relevant, says Razzak Jallow, CFO of FloQast.

Christina Van Tassell has been finance chief of major communications companies, including WPP Group’s Xaxis and News Corp.’s Dow Jones. Now head of finance for $2.1 billion Wiley, she talks about the CFO’s new role as ‘translator in chief.’

Healthy discussion and disagreement are relatively easy to navigate in the day-to-day work environment. But when the venue is a board meeting, the stakes are much higher. Here’s how to meet the challenge.