Reach the Top in Finance : The Ambitious Accountant's Guide to Career Success

• Autore: Percy Sally
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (155 pages)
• Disciplina: 657.023
• Soggetto topico: Accounting - Vocational guidance; Career development
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Building your personal brand -- Why does personal brand matter to finance professionals? -- Building your brand -- A stand-out brand -- The value of pragmatism: Julie Teigland -- Changing your brand -- Marketing your personal brand -- Chapter end -- 2 Skills and capabilities -- Technical knowledge is not enough -- Partner potential -- Need a niche? -- Life-long learning -- Contact with the board -- Should you study for an MBA? -- International experience -- ABC - a lesson in being the best -- The skills of a CFO -- IT and systems -- The technical route to CFO: Geraldine Matchett's story -- The skills of a partner -- Career in audit -- Chapter end -- 3 Career management -- Moving from practice to industry -- Relationship with your boss -- Working with HR functions, recruitment consultants and headhunters -- Career hiccoughs -- When your company goes under ... -- Passed over for promotion -- From Big Four partner to Fortune 500 CFO -- Networking and public speaking -- Chapter end -- 4 Being the business partner -- Relationships with other departments -- Working with the CEO -- Working with entrepreneurs -- Working with private equity firms -- Working with clients -- Working in not-for-profit -- Presenting to the board -- Relationships with investors -- Relationships with the auditor, banks and credit rating agencies -- Media relations -- Managing cost-saving programmes -- The future of finance -- Chapter end -- 5 Leadership and management -- Approaches to leadership in industry -- New to the job? -- Leadership in professional services -- Setting the right tone -- Flying high: The Paul Donofrio story -- Under pressure -- The pros and cons of being a finance leader -- Making corporate history -- Chapter end -- 6 Women in finance -- Old boys' club -- Strategy for success. ; Torn between work and home -- Need to network -- Being female can be an advantage ... so use it -- How does she do it? -- Networking groups for women in finance -- Chapter end -- 7 Beyond finance -- Life as a CEO -- The CEO in industry: Ronan Dunne -- Senior leadership in an accountancy firm -- CEO in professional services: Sacha Romanovitch -- Non-executive roles -- The board chair's story -- Chapter end -- 8 The accountant as an entrepreneur -- Dreaming big -- Education, education, education -- How to become a billionaire -- Chapter end -- 9 Conclusion -- About the author -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reach the Top in Finance
• ISBN: 1-4729-3808-9; 1-4729-3811-9; 9781472938084
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910158604703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II