Invisible Finance
The changing role of the CFO is a never changing topic for the past many years. So, I thought I could also follow the well-trodden path…
CFO: To be and how to be
Over half of my working-career I have been a CFO, graduated to a CEO role about half-a-decade ago. When I was not a finance chief, I wondered if…
In 2019: Can we expect a better governed Corporate World?
2018 was some sort of a watershed year for governance in the world of business. Some of the best known corporate executives and well-known companies…
Executive Dialogue: CFO Engage- Pankaj Vasani Executive President & Group CFO, South Asia of Publicis Groupe
FACT FILE Joined Publicis Groupe: in early 2018 Core Finance team size: 100+ Education: Chartered Accountant (India), Associate Certified Public…
CFO is needed more in a startup than in a large organization
Most of the founders and CEOs of startups don’t believe in the need for a CFO and the general thought process is to take support if need be during…
How can the CFO improve the finance team’s role and optimize its business impact?
A successful company is one which can add value to its various stakeholders. This requires the company to perform better than the current economic…
AR – Way ahead for Banking Sector
Augmented Reality (AR) is getting a lot of attraction these days. Even a person who knows little of AR is using it one form or another. The best…
How Leadership Would Manage Crisis
Introduction “In case of Nestle now taking steps to protect the reputation of the Brand Maggie in the Indian market. How does leadership expected…
Financial Risk in Corporate Treasury
Introduction Treasury is a place where entire cash of the Company sits, this can be compared with a fresh lake of water serving the needs of the…
Evolution of CFO Role in E-commerce Sector
Introduction In todays’ evolving world the role of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is changing dynamically. Its orientation is becoming futuristic…
Diversity or Equality Series : How to increase women in leadership?
Quick summary for those who missed my previous article in this Diversity or Equality series. We spoke of the important quality women need to build…
Diversity or Equality – What’s the Path Forward?
Gender Diversity and Inclusion are hot topics that are being discussed in HR War rooms and even in board rooms today. What are we doing to increase…
Shaken not Stirred
This dialogues from the Bond thriller, best describes the hard-pressing reality for the Finance leadership in todays world. Conventional Reporting is…
“Govt must not look at angel tax as just another source of income from businesses”
Angel tax has been buzzing in the startup arena of late. More than 2,000 startups have been handed over angel tax notices, according to Indian…
Empowering sales team is good, over- empowering not so much. Strike the right balance!
Off late senior management has been focusing on empowering the sales team, but they generally tend to find a right balance. This has been a…
Negotiation
After 20 years of working and being rated as one of the best negotiator by my corporate, I still contemplate, is negotiation an art or science? Is it…
M&A Talent retention and recruitment
It was announced by the H'able Finance Minister and rightly so that the Indian economy is the only progressive economy amongst the BRIC nation.…
Failure of Corporate Governance: Pointing Fingers, will it resolve Governance Issues?
In the recent past, several reputed corporate houses in India (I prefer not to mention individual names) reported governance challenges. We went…
Role of the CFO as a Corporate Governance, Transparency and Social Responsibility Leader
In an uncertain business environment, the pervasiveness of interdependency among companies is very much evident. The role of the management has…
Talent Management
"Talent Management "……. the moment we think of Talent management it takes us to the entire life cycle of an employee, this is one responsibility…
Governance, Risk & Compliance with Technology
The emerging role of CFOs have put them on the forefront of Governance, Risk & compliance. There are no disagreements on the subject that with…