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355: When KPIs Are Top of Mind | Four CFOs Tell Us Which Metrics Matter
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354: When It’s Time to Hire | Rick Phegley, CFO, Smart & Final
The world of grocery chains has been weathering an industry-wide downturn in recent years. However, for Smart & Final, 2016 was another year of expansion. The grocery chain added 39 new stores, bringing its total to 305 in seven western states. Join us when Rick Phegley, CFO, Smart & Final, explains his CFO mind-set and…
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353: The Expressive CFO | Kelly Steckelberg, CFO, Zoom Video Communications
Turn back the clock, and you'll see that Kelly Steckelberg's CFO career took a surprise turn when she advanced into the CEO office for a number of years. Back inside the finance realm as CFO of a fast-growing video conferencing company, Kelly now credits her CEO turn as helping to better illuminate the path of a strategy-minded…
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351: When It Became Time to Lead (Part I) | Kevin Bisson, CFO, Ipswitch
Not unlike that of many finance professionals, the opening chapter of Kevin Bisson's finance career was all about acquiring skills and experience, and United Technologies provided a variety of rich avenues down which Bisson could advance in search of opportunities. However, after 10 years of exploration and problem-solving, more weighty leadership opportunities beckoned and Bisson…
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350: How Travel Became One CFO’s Ticket to Ride | Dan Figenshu, CFO, Rocketrip
It was no coincidence that on the same day that Dan Figenshu agreed to join Rocketship as its CFO, the software developer lost one of its most loyal repeat customers—the reason being, of course, that Figenshu and the customer were one and the same. Having built a finance career inside New York's margin-minded media industry, Figenshu…
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349: The Age of Strategic Transparency | CFO Dave Pomeroy, Brett Knowles
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348: It Takes More Than Hard Work—Part 2: Roy Austin, CFO (emeritus), D. J. Powers Company
Join us for Part 2 of our interview with Roy Austin, CFO (emeritus), of D. J. Powers Company and learn how Roy acquired new coaching skills as his interest in helping small businesses continued to grow. Great Expectations "When I got there, I discovered that the controller they had hired when they bought this plant had…
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347: When Opportunity Knocked—Part 1 | Roy Austin, CFO (emeritus), D. J. Powers Company
After nearly three decades inside Eastman Chemical Company, Roy Austin thought that perhaps he was becoming burned out. As a senior accountant, he was a valued team member, but a number of key opportunities for career advancement had failed to come his way. Who was to blame? Roy decided that he could hold only himself accountable.…
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346: Making Data Connections | Darrell Cox, CFO, Vena Solutions
Join us when Darrell Cox, CFO of Vena Solutions, explains his priorities when it comes to advancing Vena's customer offerings, scaling the organization, and identifying and aligning sources of data that can empower the company to look beyond the next quarter. "Basically, I need to prepare Vena for scale. I need to help us drive efficient growth,…
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345: ASC 606: Ready for Action | Steve Giusti, Controller, Xactly Corp.; John Dunican , Armanino, LLP
Believe the hype. ASC 606 is one of the biggest compliance changes for business since Sarbanes-Oxley. The new revenue recognition standard goes into effect at the end of 2017 for public companies and at the end of 2018 for private companies. The new standard is based on one overarching principle: When goods and services are…
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344: The Ironclad Solution | Tom Walsh, CFO, Art Iron
Thirty-four years ago, Tom Walsh opted to forgo a job offer with a large multinational company to become a senior accountant with a small steel fabrication company that had set down deep Midwestern roots under four generations of family ownership. Join us when Tom recalls some of the early career logic that influenced the fateful decision that…
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343: From CAO to CFO | Paul Jalbert, CFO, Progress Software
As a chief accounting officer for a large telecom, Paul Jalbert has had a career that has led him to routinely relocate as the large company sought to more tightly integrate different regional operations. Preferring to put an end to his relocation habit and stay put with his family in the Northeast, Paul saw a door swing…
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