CFO Bookshelf

CFO Bookshelf considers The Wisdom of Finance one of its favorite 25 business books. Mihir Desai combines abstract and obtuse finance concepts with literature, history, movies, and poems in his book,...

16 Des 202350min

One of the best books we've read on private equity is by Adam Coffey. The title is The Private Equity Playbook. Adam's newest book is based on a two-day presentation he gave on how to roll up an indu...

8 Des 202351min

Since I am not a customer of Dunkin' Donuts, I know very little about their origin story. When Around the Corner, Around the World hit my reading radar, I was intrigued and was compelled to read it. I...

2 Des 202339min

I had never considered the business aspects of pirating until I read Katherine Howe's newest book, A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself. Every ship's captai...

25 Nov 202356min

I'd recommend The Phoenix Project if I could only recommend one book to a CEO, CFO, or COO about the essentials or the heart of IT in a heartbeat. The Phoenix Project is the IT version of The Goal, a...

18 Nov 202357min

I cannot begin to count the number of times I've heard the following question or something similar, "Mark, I've heard my industry EBITDA multiple is 5x. What do you think?" As much as I want to screa...

4 Nov 202358min

As much as I enjoy reading the Goldratt books and his theory of constraints (TOC), I never considered his early book, The Race, a solid and readable primer on throughput for financial minds. Several ...

28 Okt 20231h

If you have read any books on pricing, the title that stands above the rest is Hermann Simon's Confessions of The Pricing Man. However, suppose you are looking for a book that includes nearly every p...

21 Okt 202352min