Is Your CFO Really Working? (Paperback)
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Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. It was 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. The board deck was late. Again.My CFO's team had been working on a cost-to-serve analysis for six weeks. I opened an AI assistant and typed the same question. Eleven minutes later I had a better answer - more detailed, more honest, and more useful than the one I had been waiting for.That moment cost me eight months of uncomfortable thinking, one difficult conversation, and eventually one of the most important decisions I have made as a CEO. This book is the full account of what I found, what I changed, and what it means for any company still running finance the old way.What this book arguesSomewhere between 60 and 80 percent of what your senior finance team spends its time on can now be done faster, cheaper, and often better by AI tools that cost less per month than a dinner for two. The work that remains - the judgment, the courage, the uncomfortable question asked at the right moment in the right room - is more valuable than it has ever been. Most finance functions are organized to do the first thing and have almost no time for the second. This book is about how to change that.What you get insideThe 41-deliverable experiment - documented results tracking every finance output over four months, comparing CFO team time and quality against AI replication. The numbers are uncomfortable.The AI Finance Audit - a 25-question scored diagnostic you can run on your own finance function today. Four score bands with specific recommended actions.20 ready-to-deploy AI prompts - fully written, immediately usable prompts for cash flow forecasting, variance narrative, board presentation architecture, scenario planning, and more.The conversation guide - step-by-step guidance on having the role evolution conversation with your CFO, including three annotated scripts and a 30-day follow-up protocol.The full technology stack - eight-layer AI finance stack with real monthly costs. Total software cost of the restructured function: approximately $300 per month.Four real transition profiles - finance professionals who made the transition, including one who was promoted to CFO with a 38 percent pay increase and one who recognized the new role was not what she wanted and left for something better. Honest accounts of what this actually looks like.Who this book is forCEOs who have privately wondered whether their finance function is generating strategic value proportional to its costCFOs who see the change coming and want to be the one who names it firstFinance professionals who want to understand what the new version of the role looks like and how to get thereBoard members and investors who are beginning to ask why finance function costs vary so widely across comparable companiesWhat this book is notIt is not a book about replacing finance professionals with AI. The argument is precisely the opposite: the work AI cannot do is the only work that matters at the senior level, and it is currently buried under work that automation now handles. It is not a technology book - the specific tools occupy one chapter. The rest is about leadership, honesty, and the psychology of organizational change.All characters and events depicted are fictional. Any resemblance to real persons or organizations is coincidental. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
N° de ref. del artículo 9798195922733
- Título
- Is Your CFO Really Working? (Paperback)
- Autor
- Casper Zhao
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798195922733
- Serie
- Libro 1 de 4: Executive Stack Series
It was 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. The board deck was late. Again.
My CFO's team had been working on a cost-to-serve analysis for six weeks. I opened an AI assistant and typed the same question. Eleven minutes later I had a better answer - more detailed, more honest, and more useful than the one I had been waiting for.
That moment cost me eight months of uncomfortable thinking, one difficult conversation, and eventually one of the most important decisions I have made as a CEO. This book is the full account of what I found, what I changed, and what it means for any company still running finance the old way.
What this book argues
Somewhere between 60 and 80 percent of what your senior finance team spends its time on can now be done faster, cheaper, and often better by AI tools that cost less per month than a dinner for two. The work that remains — the judgment, the courage, the uncomfortable question asked at the right moment in the right room — is more valuable than it has ever been. Most finance functions are organized to do the first thing and have almost no time for the second. This book is about how to change that.
What you get inside
- The 41-deliverable experiment - documented results tracking every finance output over four months, comparing CFO team time and quality against AI replication. The numbers are uncomfortable.
- The AI Finance Audit - a 25-question scored diagnostic you can run on your own finance function today. Four score bands with specific recommended actions.
- 20 ready-to-deploy AI prompts - fully written, immediately usable prompts for cash flow forecasting, variance narrative, board presentation architecture, scenario planning, and more.
- The conversation guide - step-by-step guidance on having the role evolution conversation with your CFO, including three annotated scripts and a 30-day follow-up protocol.
- The full technology stack - eight-layer AI finance stack with real monthly costs. Total software cost of the restructured function: approximately $300 per month.
- Four real transition profiles - finance professionals who made the transition, including one who was promoted to CFO with a 38 percent pay increase and one who recognized the new role was not what she wanted and left for something better. Honest accounts of what this actually looks like.
Who this book is for
- CEOs who have privately wondered whether their finance function is generating strategic value proportional to its cost
- CFOs who see the change coming and want to be the one who names it first
- Finance professionals who want to understand what the new version of the role looks like and how to get there
- Board members and investors who are beginning to ask why finance function costs vary so widely across comparable companies
What this book is not
It is not a book about replacing finance professionals with AI. The argument is precisely the opposite: the work AI cannot do is the only work that matters at the senior level, and it is currently buried under work that automation now handles. It is not a technology book - the specific tools occupy one chapter. The rest is about leadership, honesty, and the psychology of organizational change.
All characters and events depicted are fictional. Any resemblance to real persons or organizations is coincidental.
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