In over two years of CFOradio, the best CFOs have advised on many aspects of being a finance leader.  What has become a recurring topic is that of “being a leader” and managing people.  In today’s show, Rick Patterson will discuss measuring how people think, learn and behave and relate that to the role of the CFO, managing finance personnel.  Rick will advise on how you can link information about people’s behavior to easily understand how to make actionable decisions in all aspects of human capital management strategy.  In today’s world of electronic information available at your fingertips, learn how you can use software testing to help your company hire the right person/team, avoiding the expensive decisions of making a bad hire.  Learn as Rick describes the biggest mistakes CFOs and other business leaders make in recruiting.   What’s also important as a finance leader is retaining the staff we have, so listen in as Rick tells us what you need to know to keep your teams happy and motivated.

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Listen in at 5PM on Monday, March 26, 2012 as Jim Munson, President and CEO of Munson International discusses how to improve your company’s bottom line by reducing transportation costs.

Jim Munson is President and CEO of Munson International. He has over 35+ years of providing travel and relocation services thousands of happy clients. Jim’s approach is to remove the client’s stress of domestic and international relocation.

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In today’s show Jeff Pearson discusses his role as CFO of one of the largest providers of healthcare to children.  St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where “No child is ever denied treatment because of the family’s inability to pay.”  Considering the start of this non-profit in 1962 with an annual budget of $1 million, it’s come a long way in its vision to be the world leader in advancing the treatment and prevention of catastrophic diseases in children.  Today, St Jude  hospital requires $1.7 million daily to run its programs.  In 1962, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened its doors amid an emotionally charged debate regarding how to treat childhood cancer.  At that time, few children with the most common form of childhood cancer survived, and many physicians believed treatment was futile.  St. Jude physicians and researchers took a radically different approach, and these efforts proved pivotal in changing the way the world treats childhood cancer.  St. Jude is recognized for playing a significant role in improving overall survival rates for childhood cancer, which have increased from 20 percent in 1962 to 80 percent today.

Listen in as Jeff discusses his philosophy to leadership – Purpose, People and Passion.  To run a first-class finance organization, Jeff believes you “Shouldn’t get bogged down in the detail”.  Instead, “Inspire your people, listen to them intently and take the constraints off them so they may flourish.”

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In today’s show Lorraine Chilvers discusses the foundations of ethics in business from her real-life experiences of 20 years inside Fortune 500 companies.  She discusses her experiences as an executive of WorldCom leading a significant portion of the company’s financial restatement, the largest fraud and bankruptcy in the world. She discusses the foundations of ethics. . . and breaks it down into a framework of three components: “the Law”; “moral standards” and “appropriate behavior”, evaluating each one in turn.  She uses as the basis for this discussion presentations as a guest lecturer to leading universities, including Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.  Some of the anecdotes may surprise you!  Listen in as the host of CFOradio, Lorraine Chilvers, discusses some of the world’s worst examples of leadership and how such forms of leadership can be successful.

In today’s show Melissa Beard discusses her passion, a non-profit organization established in 2001 by Doctors Bob Malkin and Mohammad Kiani, with the aim of improving the technological infrastructure in hospitals in the developing world and ensuring access to modern health care.  Today, Engineering World Health (EWH) is the largest organization in the world dedicated to post donation medical equipment repair, maintenance, and training.  Melissa describes the socio-financial impact derived from the organization’s programs in African countries.  EWH’s programs provide an on-the-job educational and working forum for engineering students to travel abroad and provide technology solutions in parts of the world where teaching is not available to the masses.  You will learn how low cost / low tech solutions can benefit technicians and patients in these resource-poor countries.  Listen as Melissa describes how the students can derive highly ingenious solutions even from the most basic of available resources, such as re-tooling a beer bottle lid into a heart-monitor solution.

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In today’s show  CFOradio’s host, Lorraine Chilvers, talks about Systems Implementations, the top reasons they fail and lessons learned.  We are using as the basis for this presentation two articles: The first article, “Top 10 Reasons Why Systems Projects Fail,” from  www.Harvard.edu, is written by Dr. Paul Dorsey.  The second article “An Investigation of Statutory Internal Control Requirements and Information Flow of the Computer Based Data Processing System at XYZ Ltd,” is written by Lorraine Chilvers.  Listen in as the host of CFOradio, Lorraine Chilvers, discusses her experiences – as steering committee leader and project manager, she has managed technology implementations of SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft.

In today’s show, Tony Mitchell describes his path to being the CFO of a $1.5 billion company which is a subsidiary of one of the top twelve largest companies in the world, Compass PLC. From his early career with a Big 8 CPA firm and also being the CFO of two securities broker/dealer firms, Tony’s path led him to the food industry. He speaks of the challenges facing today’s CFO, needing to learn the “business” and motivating your finance staff. He also talks about being acquired by one of the largest companies in the world, and how successful this partnership has been, ten years running.

Join us on CFOradio.com as Tony Mitchell explores the aspects of being a CFO and leading the “business” and “people” of finance.

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Tune in as CFOradio talks with Marian Powers, Ph.D., Professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Through Marian’s career she specialized in teaching financial reporting and analysis to executives.  Marian has designed and delivered customized finance and accounting training for numerous corporations and organizations.  She is co-author of several college accounting textbooks and in-depth cases on financial analysis. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, The International Journal of Accounting, The Journal of Accountancy, among others.

Marian’s analysis of several of the highest performance companies of the world is quite surprising in its findings.  She discusses the characteristics of these companies having researched those who sustained this growth for a decade.  She talks in depth about the key finding that most companies or the finance function don’t focus upon – cash flow yield.  Listen and learn as she explains what it is and how you can measure it.

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Listen as Rebecca Flick tells the CFOradio audience why “Cash is king and queen” in today’s economy.  Rebecca explains how cash is the proxy for evaluating shareholder value and how running a business on cash is fundamental to increasing shareholder equity.  Ms. Flick also traces her experience as a former assistant vice president of credit products for Bank of America, and describes the differences in experiences between being a corporate treasurer and a banker.

Having closed approximately 35 acquisitions in 3-4 years, also gave Rebecca some unique insight into the corporate treasurer function. “Often, the lead financial roles in a corporation are referred to as the ones who readily say, ‘No.’ ” Rebecca dispels that myth and tells us how she was able to work with problems and issues to produce successful outcomes.  Tune in for her valuable tips and perspective.

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