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The CFO Series Whitepapers are reports and presentations based around topics and issues that are specific to the needs of today's and tomorrow’s Finance Chiefs. They are regularly updated and available to download in a PDF format. The CFO Whitepapers provide a direct link to the region’s most preeminent CFO’s and Business Thought Leaders.

Generational Leadership

Author: Stacey Ashley
Ashley Coaching & Consulting

Stacey Ashley is the Managing Director of Ashley Coaching & Consulting. Stacey works with organisations and executives in the fields of leadership development and Executive Coaching. Stacey is passionate about leading and facilitating great change,enabling people to be their best, to become true leaders, and create extraordinary results for themselves and their organisations. 

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Wellness@Work

Author: Christopher Paterson
ALCHEMY Career Management

Christopher Paterson is managing director of ALCHEMY Career Management, a coaching business that helps staff and executives to be at the best with one on one coaching and supports organisational wellness with an empirically tested Wellness@Work® program.

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A Business Case for Outplacement

Author: Christopher Paterson
ALCHEMY Career Management

Christopher Paterson is managing director of ALCHEMY Career Management, a coaching business that helps staff and executives to be at the best with one on one coaching and supports organisational wellness with an empirically tested Wellness@Work® program.

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Women on Boards

Author: Dr Ann-Maree Moodie
Managing Director | The Boardroom Consulting Group

For the first time in Australian corporate history, an S&P/ASX 100 company board of directors is comprised of a majority of women, following the successful IPO of Australian healthcare company Medibank Private.

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Measurement of Strategy Success

Author: John Frame
CFO | Bethanie Group

The effective modern CFO needs to have a sharp sense of strategic thought.To constantly seek the right things to do to attain sustainable competitive
advantage. To challenge the existing models that permeate the organisation’s DNA and which may well be holding back its potential, or worse, steering it
into oblivion.

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Is the CFO the new CIO?

Author: Ken Matthews
Managing Director | CIO Advisory

The relationship between these two executive groups has soured in recent years with CFOs accusing CIOs of spending too much, not being aligned with the financial stresses of the company, delivering technology for technology sake, and a general lack of interest in business improvement.

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IR is gaining ground

Author: Stephen Downes
GAAP Australia

LET’S NOT over-complicate integrated reporting (<IR>). As firms and their boards and senior executives become more aware of what it is, its basic premise gets obscured. Complications afflict a patient who isn’t even sick.

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