The 80/20 CFO

How to Make Strategic Transformations in Your Company

By: Janice Berthold, Suzy Taherian

Narrated by: Estella A.

It is not a massive treatise on everything you should know as a CFO. But the book contains shortcuts a CFO can use to earn credibility and trust. This will help create change within the organization.

One of the biggest challenges for a new CFO is often there’s not a job description. It’s usually something vague like “make the CEO look good and help the company succeed”. How do you do that exactly? This book is unlike any other of its kind. We’ve cut to the chase and shared with the CFO what they need to do and how to do it.

©2018 Janice Berthold (P)2022 Janice Berthold

Good if you want to be a CFO / Otherwise, just ok

This book would be very good for anyone who would like to know what a CFO does, if they would like to hire a CFO or if they would like to be a CFO. For others like me who are just mildly curious what a CFO does, I don't think I learned too much.

Short and very high level

Most of it seem like made up stories to deliver examples and behaviors that have little to do with reality of situations.

No substance

Beginner ideas with no explanation on how to execute them. “Working together” is 80% of the book