The term "CFO" (which stands for Chief Financial Officer) is correct and is often used in written English
You can use it when referring to the position of CFO in a company, for example: "The company's CFO is responsible for financial planning and analysis."
At an event for equity analysts in February, Google did roll out the "CFO", but he was the chief food officer (ie, chef), Charlie Ayers, who talked about his grilled pork tenderloin.
For its June cover story, CFO magazine speaks to the ten female CFOs who made the Fortune 500 in the last year, nine of whom replaced men at their firms.
A survey by CFO magazine in 1999 found that 39% of chief executives had fired their last CFO, and 75% had hired the current incumbent 40% of them within the previous three years.Incoming bosses often bring in their own person.
Last year, Peter McLean, who leads the CFO practice at Spencer Stuart, a firm of headhunters, looked at the qualifications of CFOs at Fortune 500 companies.
But the role of the CFO also changed in the 1990s in a way that set the scene for trouble.A decade ago, most CFOs had a professional accountancy qualification.
During the trial period, the ads under-performed to such an extent that it impacted the company's bottom line: Twitter CFO Anthony Noto blamed the fact that the company missed revenue expectations in the first quarter of 2015 on the objective-based ads.
What it means is that we are subject to continuous review from the ATO," the CFO, Susan Panuccio said.
"I said, 'then they need to call God, not me' .The next best thing may be to appoint a CFO old enough to remember the trade.
Chief executives clearly want a CFO who will be part of the team.
iVillage, an Internet company, is on its sixth since 1997; Unisys has had four since 1995.Against impatient investors and a trigger-happy boss, the best defence of the CFO ought to be the audit committee, the group of (supposedly) independent directors who monitor the company's figures.
At Xerox, which overstated its profits by $1.4 billion, Barry Romeril's retirement as CFO in December has not spared him an SEC letter asking why he should not be charged with fraud.Why are so many CFOs in trouble?
