How financial managers are responding to the new pressures.(includes related article on job applications for high-level posts)

From: Management Accounting (British) | Date: May 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Financial managers see a need for all managers to become involved in changing companies, and financial awareness and numeracy among managers needs to be increased. A common approach has to be developed for business issues, and this means the participation of all managers. Financial managers' tasks include communicating well, taking an independent stance, improving usage of companies' capital, and avoiding accounting tricks.

In the first article we looked at financial management from the point of view of the customers of the finance function, i.e. top management and the outside world, and ...

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