CFO Bookshelf

While this is CFO Bookshelf where we generally interview book authors, there's no way I want to read a book on ERP planning and implementations. I believe this is a better topic addresses through doi...

17 Apr 202146min

As a financial leader, I enjoy any conversation with a CEO, especially one that's co-founded a business generating more than $100 million annually. Jeff Morrill is the co-founder with his brother of ...

9 Apr 202145min

Some of my favorite words in the CFO lexicon are momentum, acceleration, velocity, drive, and even thrust. Coincidentally, Mike Berland is the author of Maximum Momentum - How to Get It, How to Keep ...

3 Apr 202140min

If you liked The Big Short by Michael Lewis where we learn about the financial meltdown of 2007-08, then you will probably like the stories behind the financial revolution that took place during the 1...

26 Mar 202134min

The legendary CEO, Hunter Harrison, was making an impact with his tools and philosophies while turning around Canadian National Railway. But he still needed help with a serious problem. The organizati...

19 Mar 202144min

Adam Mead's new book, The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway was 5 years in the making and started out as a 5,000-page manuscript that was finally shaved to just under a thousand pages. ...

13 Mar 202142min

One of the best accounting books I've ever read about Lean from a CFO's perspective is Real Numbers by Jean Cunningham, one of the authors of that book. But the audience for that book is CEOs, operat...

6 Mar 202137min

Stacey Barr is the author of Practical Performance Measurement and Prove It! She is also the creator of the best performance measurement framework I've ever reviewed, and it's applicable to businesse...

28 Feb 202125min