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Review of False Flag
Loved it! 😍 "An exhilarating look into cold war espionage in the tradition of Ian Fleming's 007, and its greater meaning in world...
5 days ago2 min read


FALSE FLAG - an extract
6th June 1965 – Eastern Finland The Soviet T-62 tank passed within inches of Nic Slater. He was lying prone in long grass beside a...
Mar 231 min read


From Fact to Fiction
COMING SOON: The Behind the Curtain Series of Cold War Thrillers
Feb 142 min read


Five steps for CFO’s to guide AI investment
This article was originally published in the October 2024 issue of the Journal of Accountancy To successfully assess and implement AI...
Oct 31, 20244 min read


Analytics - Remember New Coke?
Almost forty years ago one of the most iconic companies in the world made a huge blunder—Coca Cola ditched Coke. The irony is that the...
Jul 1, 20243 min read


No Safe Harbour for Finance in the Storm that is 2024
A year ago, I wrote how finance professionals could face challenges of forecasting in a world characterised by global supply chain...
Apr 16, 20246 min read


What does it mean to be an Entrepeneurial CFO?
Welcome to the fifth in a series of 'reprints' of articles that I have written over the last two years in FM Magazine published by the...
Oct 16, 20231 min read


Time to Focus on Forecasting
Welcome to the fourth in a series of 'reprints' of articles that I have written over the last two years in FM Magazine published by the...
Oct 9, 20231 min read


Winning the War for Talent
Welcome to the third in a series of 'reprints' of articles that I have written over the last two years in FM Magazine published by the...
Oct 2, 20231 min read


Finance is at the Heart of M&A
Welcome to the second in a series of 'reprtints' of articles that I have written over the last two years in FM Magazine published by the...
Sep 25, 20231 min read


Are You A Finance Strategist?
Hello, This is the first of a series of 'reprints' of articles I have had written over the last two years in FM Magazine published by the...
Sep 18, 20231 min read


What's the answer to failed regulation? More regulation!
As Einstein famously said the. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." It...
May 2, 20232 min read


Are Audits Still Relevant?
A story in today's Wall Street Journal starts with the headline "KPMG Gave SVB, Signature Bank Clean Bill of Health Weeks Before...
Mar 14, 20232 min read


Rolling Forecasts are having a 'moment'
The concept of a rolling forecast as opposed to a static budget has been a favourite of consultants (this one included) for years. I...
Sep 20, 20222 min read


Getting Ahead of the Numbers
CFOs are often thought of as backward looking and internally focused. If that is their sole focus, they are failing. By the time an...
Sep 13, 20221 min read


What ever happened to “Total Quality”?
Six Sigma, TQM, Black Belts, Green Belts, Defects. Not too long ago the language of Total Quality Management was the lingua franca of...
Aug 17, 20222 min read

The Trainwreck That Is Financial Forecasting
Two addtional articles in today's Wall Street Journal, "Target Says Price Cut Vital" and "Retail CFOs Wrestle With Inventory as Hurdles...
Jun 9, 20222 min read


Forecasting Futility--WalMart and Target join the Hall of Shame
It was only back in February that I wrote about the flaws in forecasting. Yet I feel compelled to comment again. At their annual...
Jun 8, 20221 min read


The Metaverse Needs To Get Real
It seems only five minutes ago that we were talking about Web 2.0, virtual reality, blockchain and artificial intelligence. Now they...
Mar 29, 20223 min read


Facts, Forecasts or Fantasies
Forecasting is big business. Pundits forecast the outcome of sporting events, economists forecast GDP growth rates, meteorologists...
Feb 28, 20222 min read
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