Do Accountants Make the Best CFOs? Steve Rosvold | Accounting Influencers Podcast

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"Do Accountants Make the Best CFOs? Steve Rosvold."

Steve Rosvold is the Founder of CFO.University, a professional development platform for finance leaders. He spent 20 years leading corporate finance teams honing his ability to drive change, improve profitability and ensure long-term financial health for businesses before creating an advisory practice that grew into CFO.University.

The company’s foundation is built on the four pillars of CFO success: Accounting, Finance, Treasury and Leadership and its mission is to deliver practical, performance enhancing and convenient professional development to finance leaders all around the globe.

In this episode, we discuss how accountants and CPAs are dialed into governance, financial control and historical reporting, but how this often locks them out of future focus, predictions, and analytics. If accountants and CPAs don't have the right skills, what do they need?

Steve shares the four pillars of success in COF University that lead to mastery as a senior financial officer and an even stronger accountant. The Four Pillars are made up of:

Accounting – Governance & Controls, Transaction Recording and Reporting

Finance – Business Planning, Financial Forecasting and Investment Analysis

Treasury – Cash Management, Funding (Capital Raising) and Risk Management

Leadership – Self Awareness, Team Building and Strategy & Culture

We explore how the CPA or chartered accountant qualification used to be a route to CFO status and positions but no longer. And we look at what is. Lots of goodies here to help accounting professionals appreciate and even step into the financial expertise required by modern businesses.

Steve lives in beautiful Vancouver, Washington and is an avid bicyclist. On his longest one-day trek he pedaled 275 miles from Seattle to Spokane, Washington.

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