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The hidden cost of ignoring financial infrastructure—and why heroic CFOs aren’t the solution I recently came across a sharp, insight-packed LinkedIn pitch – the kind we all scroll past daily. The story was familiar: a CFO leaves, the business slows, the forecast softens, Board decks lose clarity, and meetings drift into opinion because the numbers…
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Recent LinkedIn posts seem to diverge on the proper role of a CFO. There are two schools of thought. One warns against overpaying for a glorified bookkeeper masquerading as a CFO. “Bookkeeping is clerical — don’t pay a CFO to do bookkeeping.” Another describes bookkeeping as fundamental; fit for strategic oversight at the CFO level.…
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LinkedIn markets the role of CFO as: That’s the textbook definition, but it’s incomplete and misleading, especially for small and mid-sized companies. And adding the secret code word “hands-on” does not do it justice. The Reality: “CFO” in the SME Market Means ‘Hands-On CFO + Controller + Process Architect’ In enterprise environments, the CFO has…
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Collections technology has evolved dramatically over the past decade — but almost entirely on the consumer engagement side of the business. AI is already transforming: This is the “AI front end” revolution, and it has rightly attracted attention. But there is another half of collections operations, one far less glamorous and far more operationally painful:…
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Tech vendors love to say they’re building a “CRM for collections.” But in reality, the distance between a sales CRM and a collections CRM is not a short hop. It’s an entirely different planet. Collections is one of the only industries where you must: A traditional CRM does one of those things. A Collections CRM…
Financial Foundations with Jim Curham 