Get Out Of The Office And You Will Learn More.

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Stay at the office for a long time and wait for others to do business. Even most of the working time of CFO will be spent in signing and meeting. But don't forget, if you have free time, you must go out and go out, you will understand the truth of the matter, you will actively improve the dull business process, and you will be more creative.

Going out is not just an enterprise workshop.

At the grassroots level, this is far from enough. As CFO, you should spend more time visiting outside markets and customers.

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You can understand the purchasing quotas and suppliers' comments on purchasers, and the inevitable kickbacks. You know, purchasing price control is a basic function of CFO.

Visiting sales customers, you will know whether the annual advertising, publicity and promotion expenses are effective or not. You will know whether business managers tell the truth to the company in terms of price management, business process and account control. You will understand the difficulties of the sales department and give them the necessary support.

Visiting competitors and brotherhood companies, you will doubt that they all offer similar products, why is their cost lower? Why is his operation efficiency higher? Why is his process control better?

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High degree of need and cooperation with CIO, but at the same time, attention should be paid to:

1. your department has higher requirements for data security than any other department, because your traditional account book has become a central database record and he doesn't store it where you can see it. You should not rely too much on the confidence of IT staff, and insist on checking and tracking their backup mechanism until you see your data burned to hard disk or CD and stored in reference room.

The informatization team led by 2.CIO is often a high cost department. The rapid upgrading of hardware needs huge budget support, and the intellectual property rights of software make you basically do not understand and control its price.

3. do not expect that information construction can be directly evaluated by ROI as other investment projects. The focus should be on the improvement of office efficiency, optimization of business processes, simplification of ordinary managers, and so on.

4. do not neglect accounting books, computers can not take everything. Some or complex or critical businesses need to record from multiple perspectives. Standardized computer processing may not be able to solve all problems. They must be managed by traditional accounting books, but the form of checking accounts can be either manual or another account.