How to tell if your Finance function is any good
By Andy Burrows
There are many different ways of looking at the performance of a Finance function.
But in this article, I want to start from first principles and definitions.
As with any question of performance, before you can tell how well you’re doing, you have to know “what good looks like”.
How can we tell if we’re doing a good job if we don’t know what the definition of “good” is?
But don’t, at this point, go straight into thinking about how you’d define a good job in Finance! If you do, you’re jumping the gun!
We need one more definition... the general definition of “doing a good job”.
The general definition of “doing a good job” is that you are meeting your objectives, which in turn is defined as making your anticipated progress towards your ultimate goals.
So, you have to know at the outset what your goals and objectives are.
Most people think that these are so obvious that they skip the...
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