Accounting Influencers

Episode 100. In today's interview, "The 3 Kinds of Modern Day CFO with Kevin Appleby."Kevin Appleby is COO at GrowCFO. He hosts the GrowCFO show, a weekly podcast dedicated to finance leaders. He is also the co-host of the long-running business show The Next 100 Days Podcast. He qualified with BDO, worked as European Business Accountant for ICI’s Plastics Business, and as a management consultant with PwC and BearingPoint. Key takeaways from this episode include:⍟ how exams teach someone how to be an accountant but not a CFO⍟ what is changing about most CFOs coming from accountancy backgrounds⍟ the three types of CFOs and their relative strengths/skillsets⍟ the different routes accountants and other professionals take to CFO roles⍟ the role of fractional CFOs who hold roles in several companies⍟ how the CFO role has changed and expanded over the last 10 years and why it's so much more than running the finance⍟ what separates the good CFOs and the great CFOs in becoming the external face of finance⍟ the differe