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Finance & Controlling and its new responsibilities – from internal service provider to business navigator

Today’s scope of duties in Finance & Controlling differs in many ways from the support services, that a CFO has traditionally been responsible for. The depth and the breadth of subjects a CFO has to master today has increased significantly. The transformation process of the Finance & Controlling functions is underway. Now, every company has to determine its position in this development process and has to take the necessary measures for the advancement of the F&C division.

The current scope of the CFO:

  
There is a variety of issues that have to be reviewed and adjusted in the course of the necessary transformation of the Finance & Controlling functions. The interested reader may look at the navigation bar to find out, which subjects Plaut deems worth mentioning and what they mean to Plaut and form his own opinion. You will find the most important basics of the individual scope of tasks, described in concise form. These elaborations aim at establishing a mutual basic understanding – in order to avoid talking at cross-purposes, when discussing specific questions and problems.

We - Plaut - are convinced, that a professionally planned and in turn consequently implemented transformation strategy, that duely incorporates all these issues, is imperative. Otherwise, a CFO should hardly be able to make his department effectively future proof.