Finance and Accounting 101 for Aspiring SMB CEOs

July 21, 2022

by an investor from Harvard University - Harvard Business School in Toronto, ON, Canada

This week's podcast episode focuses entirely on the critical finance & accounting function, an area that countless former and current searchers have effectively had to build from scratch after assuming the CEO role (myself included).

In our conversation, we discuss:

- How CEOs should manage cash & other sources of liquidity amid all of the current macroeconomic uncertainty

- Impacts of the current inflationary environment

-.Employee financial literacy, including the how transparent CEOs should be with company financials

- Capital allocation, including how CEOs should think about how to best spend the cash that they generate

- Several questions related to hiring, specifically focusing on how CEOs should think about hiring a senior finance & accounting leader for the first time.

Please enjoy!

Finance and Accounting 101 for Aspiring SMB CEOs

Reply by a searcher
from Dartmouth College in San Diego, CA, USA

I particularly liked the tangent at the end about framing a resume in the context of accomplishments over activities. Preach!!!

Reply by a searcher
in Paris, France

thanks for sharing Steve, very useful for searchers !

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