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Comment by CPAnet on September 15, 2010 at 12:24pm

Should Chief Financial Officers be Required to Hold a CPA Designation?

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"The controversy is back. Should Chief Financial Officers be required to hold a CPA designation, or not? It began with a guest post on the FEI blog, with a couple of nightmares, I mean examples, of companies with non-CPA CFOs at the helm, and continued on through the comment section. This has also been a hot topic in Proformative, too.

Non-CPA CFOs say it doesn’t matter, shouldn’t matter because they can still do the job, and companies just don’t understand that fact. Companies “glorify” that piece of paper. What they fail to understand is that it’s not about them. It is about what corporate leadership has decided is right for the company..."
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Source: CFO Coach

Comment by CPAnet on April 13, 2010 at 12:36am

Blue-Ribbon Panel on Private Company Financial Reporting Meeting Today
http://www.accountingzone.com/2010/04/blue-ribbon-panel-on-private-...