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This year’s CFO of the Year award recipients (top row) joined by our Presenting Sponsors (bottom row) on stage following the event.
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Letter from the Publisher
Thank You to the 2014 CFO Awards Advisory Committee
W
elcome to the San Fernando Valley Business Journal’s CFO Awards
special supplement, in which we celebrate the efforts and achieve-
ments of those too often unsung heroes of the corporate space.
Every successful company in the Valley owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to
the Chief Financial Officers of their respective businesses, each of whom plays a
key role, not only in the success of their companies, but in the success of the
Valley financial community as a whole. So to all the great CFOs profiled in this
volume we say thank you!
This issue sheds some additional light on the honorees we celebrated at our
CFO Awards luncheon on Tuesday, June 17th at the Warner Center Marriott in
Woodland Hills.
Ten honorees are announced in this section from a diverse selection of indus-
tries. Congratulations to each of you – together with your CEOs, your decisions
affect all aspects of your respective businesses. You truly are among the finest
that the San Fernando Valley has to offer.
We hope you enjoy this special section, which contains some insights on what
exactly it means to be a CFO in today’s business climate, as well as profiles of
each of our esteemed CFO honorees.
And again, congratulations to all the great CFOs in the San Fernando Valley
who tirelessly contribute to the bottom line of your businesses, and ultimately,
our business community as a whole.
Best regards,
Josh Schimmels
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t Glendale based Avery Dennison Corporation,
Mitchell Butier has served as Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer for the 26,000 employee
labeling and packaging materials and solutions leader
for the past four years. He was elected to his current position in
May of 2010. As senior vice president and chief financial officer,
Butier leads the company’s financial strategy and operations,
including the audit, financial reporting, investor relations, plan-
ning and analysis, tax and treasury functions, as well as oversight
of the finance functions of the company’s businesses. Prior to his
current position, Butier was corporate vice president, global
finance and chief accounting officer, a position he held starting
in March 2008. Butier joined Avery Dennison in 2000 as director,
finance of Office and Consumer Products’ North America divi-
sion, and served as group director, finance in Label and
Packaging Materials Europe from 2002 to 2004. Subsequently, he
was appointed to vice president, finance in Retail and Branding
Information Solutions as well as general manager, Americas, of
the Information Brand Management division. He also served as
acting group vice president of RBIS as well as vice president, con-
troller in 2007. Prior to joining Avery Dennison, Butier served as
senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Butier graduated
from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelor of Science
degree in accounting.
CFO of the Year Honorees
MITCHELL BUTIER
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
Avery Dennison Corp.
Glendale
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CFO of NAI Capital, Inc., a leading
commercial real estate brokerage
with 14 offices throughout the 5
county region of Los Angeles. She
has had a notable career in real
estate tied together by 35 years of
wide-range experience in finance
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oseph C. Capezza, CPA serves as executive vice president, chief financial officer
and treasurer for Health Net, Inc. For the 7,565 employee health services leader
based in Woodland Hills, Capezza is responsible for all financial activities of the
company, including financial reporting, accounting, finance, risk management,
treasury, investments, business and financial planning, and investor relations. Health Net,
Inc. is a publicly traded managed care organization that delivers managed health care serv-
ices through health plans and government-sponsored managed care plans. In short,
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health benefits to approximately 5.5 million individuals across the country through group,
individual, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly referred
to as “Part D”), Medicaid, U.S. Department of Defense, including TRICARE, and Veterans
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assistance programs, managed health care products related to prescription drugs, managed
health care product coordination for multi-region employers, and administrative services
for medical groups and self-funded benefits programs. Prior to joining Health Net in
November 2007, Capezza was the chief financial officer of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in
Wellesley, Mass. His earlier professional experience includes CFO responsibilities at Group
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positions also include executive responsibilities at Willcox Incorporated Reinsurance
Intermediaries and Skandia America Reinsurance Corporation. Capezza also worked for
Coopers & Lybrand. Capezza is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public
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Management (SIFM). He served as president of SIFM from 1999 to 2001 and is the former
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(1987 to 1988). Capezza received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Fordham
University in Bronx, New York.
JOSEPH CAPEZZA
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Health Net Inc.
Woodland Hills
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M
ike Dooley began his role CFO for Applied Companies (a Valencia-based
manufacturing company) in May of 2012. Overall he has vast experience and
been involved in the finance workforce for over 20 years. He has well round-
ed business strategies with a successful career leading and redesigning organi-
zational infrastructure, operations and finances for companies in diverse industries with
multiple operating entities. His background encompasses P&L management combined and
accounting financial management for companies with over $1 billion in annual revenues.
Prior to joining Applied Companies, Dooley served as President and CEO of The Financial
Mapping Group based in Denver, CO for seven years. He provided management consult-
ing serving small to mid-sized businesses in financial services, media, technology and vari-
ous start-ups. Dooley has worked with clients to develop efficient operations, financial
reporting and planning, internal controls and assets preservation. Other projects have
included legal structure design, contract preparation and negotiation, risk management,
system implementations, policies and process analysis. As the Interim VP/Controller for
SunCorp, a $3 billion Commercial Credit Union, where he served for 4 1/2 years, he was
brought in to reorganize the finance and accounting department. In this position he hired,
trained and developed the staff, selected and implemented financial systems, increasing
internal controls to meet SAS 109 (Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404) compliance and developed
effective cross-training programs. He successfully managed the annual budget process, vari-
ance analysis, month-end close, monthly call reporting, charter conversion, all tax filings
(including Form 990), payroll and 401(k) plan, selecting and changing external auditors,
local tax filings, consolidating three offices into one, reducing headcount and operating
costs, managing the 457(f) benefit plan, outsourcing non-strategic operations and complex
securities and subsidiary valuations. Taking a look further back at Dooley’s career, he’s had
roles of CFO, Interim CEO, Finance Manager, and accountant within a broad base of
industries from a meat processing plant to the aerospace industry.
MIKE DOOLEY
Applied Companies
Valencia
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orking directly at the right hand of Visionary CEO Robert Yallen, Tim
Gerrity is a key leader who is responsible for the financial management of
all 12 of the InterMedia companies. As Yallen innovates and expands the
company, Gerrity works with him directly to develop the financial and
reporting structures to accommodate the new business developments and growth — and to
carry the entire corporation forward as a leader and innovator in the direct response and
general media advertising industries. Gerrity is responsible for all aspects of finance,
accounting, tax, treasury and financial planning for the Inter/Media Group of Companies.
Under the leadership of Gerrity, InterMedia has expanded and diversified its portfolio of
companies into commercial and residential real estate through subsidiaries - InterMedia
Properties and Sydney Properties. Under Gerrity, the company sales have exceeded $600
million annually. The company has increased by more than 30% since his arrival. Among
the company’s key clients are ShoeDazzle, Corinthian Colleges, Clear Choice Dental,
GoDaddy, Marinello Schools of Beauty, and Lifestyle Lift. One of the company’s major
undertakings was the purchasing and renovation of a new company headquarters in 2012-
2013 in Woodland Hills. Yallen looks to Gerrity for leadership on business development,
financials planning, acquisitions, negotiation and oversight of contracts, real estate man-
agement and developing and maintaining banking and other financial relationships.
“Bringing aboard Tim Gerrity was a major step in creating a superior C-Suite team that has
allowed us to grow exponentially, while controlling our costs and maintaining our cash
flow requirements,” reports Yallen. “He brings to his job supreme ability, coupled with wis-
dom and an engaging personality that makes him a well-liked by everyone in the compa-
ny. Tim always has an open door and a smile for everyone. And that’s often rare in a CFO.
Furthermore, he is unflappable … handling all of the most pressurized dilemmas with care,
consistency and calmness.”
TIM GERRITY
Senior Vice President & Chief Executive Officer
InterMedia Group of Companies
Woodland Hills
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achel Howitt serves as President and CFO of NAI Capital, Inc, a leading commer-
cial real estate brokerage with 14 offices throughout the five county region of Los
Angeles. Howitt has had a notable career in real estate that is tied together by 34
years of wide-range experience including metallurgical engineering, finance, and
business development. It is with such experience that Howitt so successfully oversees all
financial and administrative matters relating to NAI Capital, Inc. With over 26 years of expe-
rience leading the company, Howitt is also responsible for exploring strategic alliances to
enhance the depth and scope of the services NAI Capital provides to its clients, including
strategizing on company expansion plans. As the regionally exclusive NAI Global member,
NAI Capital provides transactional services for the leasing and sale of industrial, office and
retail properties, as well as the sale of land, senior housing and multi-family properties.
Howitt earned her Bachelor’s degree at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, attended
Brown University Graduate School of Engineering with a concentration in metallurgical
engineering, and was hired by Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. While working at JPL,
she simultaneously received her degree from the UCLA Graduate School of Management.
Her entrepreneurial spirit lead her to join four male counterparts to start Brentwood Saving
and Loan, the highest capitalized Savings and Loan to open in California at that time. In
1988, she joined NAI Capital, Inc. as CFO and also became President in 1996. Howitt now
handles all areas of finance for the organization and its expansion plans and development
of new lines of business. Overall, Howitt’s ambition and purpose is to provide a nurturing
environment that promotes independent, productive thinking, and to demonstrate that
those she is in business with don’t work for one another, but are instead interdependent on
one another.
RACHEL HOWITT
President & Chief Financial Officer
NAI Capital Inc.
Encino
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andy Hutchings has been the CFO of Helmet House Inc. for 15
years. In that time he has helped the company grow to the largest
motorcycle helmet distributor in the country. He is involved in
every aspect of the business including all of the usual CFO duties
such as budgeting, financial reporting, projections and analysis, managing
banking relationships, etc. As if these duties did not already constitute a full
time position in which only a highly motivated and dynamic individual can
excel, Hutchings involves himself in much more. Hutchings plays a key role
in vendor relationships including traveling to Japan and Korea to negotiate
contracts with suppliers. He negotiates all of the prices for shipping with
third party providers as well as contracts for credit card processing and all
other business critical activities. He displays a remarkable knowledge of each
of these disparate areas. He can match most credit card processing reps in
terms of knowledge when talking about how merchants are charged for cred-
it card transactions (a complicated field to say the least and can dissect a
complex bank statement or UPS invoice often as well if not better than his
banker or UPS rep. It is because he takes the time to master each of these
areas that he is able to advocate so effectively for his company. Helmet
House has the most aggressive pricing possible from every vendor that they
use, thanks to Hutchings. His financial statements are always timely and
accurate. His AR and AP agings are clean and precise. In fact, according to his
coworkers, there seems to be no area where Hutchings is anything less than
remarkable. Hutchings is a graduate of USC’s Leventhal School of
Accounting and prior to joining Helmet House was in public accounting.
RANDY HUTCHINGS
Helmet House Inc.
Calabasas

R
ick Kline joined IPC the Hospitalist Company (IPC) in November of
2011 as Chief Financial Officer. Kline oversees all financial matters for
IPC, which is the nation’s leading provider of hospital medicine and
related facility-based services. Its providers deliver high quality inpa-
tient care efficiently and cost-effectively, supported by IPC-Link, the most sophisti-
cated, comprehensive physician software technology available today. Under Kline’s
fiscal stewardship, IPC employs more than 1700 affiliated healthcare providers in
22 states. To support its providers, IPC offers management and administrative
services such as billing and collections, recruitment, marketing, training and edu-
cation. A pioneer in the field of hospital medicine and related facility-based serv-
ices, IPC has a reputation as a leader in quality and innovation. IPC is the first
practice group exclusively focused on hospital medicine and post-acute care to
become a publicly traded company. Prior to arriving at IPC, Kline served as Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer and later as President and Chief Operating
Officer of Castle & Cooke, Inc., a consortium of businesses in real estate, hospitali-
ty, golf courses, restaurants, warehousing/logistics, building materials, aviation, life
sciences, oil and gas, and transportation. Prior to that, he was with Ernst and
Young, LLP, serving most recently as Partner of the Assurance and Advisory
Business Services group in the Los Angeles office. He received his BS in Accounting
from the University of Southern California.
RICK KLINE
IPC the Hospitalist Company Inc.
North Hollywood
J
ulie McClure purchased Montrose Travel in 1989 along with her
husband Joe McClure and sister in law, Andi Mysza. From 1989 to
2013, they built Montrose Travel from a small travel agency into a
nationwide “major-player” travel management company that now
has over 200 employees, 800 independent contractors, and six operating
divisions located in four self-owned buildings in Montrose. Today Montrose
Travel is one of the Top 40 Travel Management Companies in the US. Julie
McClure showed her strength quickly when within the first six months of
taking over the company the Gulf War started and stunted travel for all sec-
tors of the industry. Her very conservative cash flow management skills
gleaned from her hard-working North Dakota parents allowed Montrose
Travel to weather that first storm with great success. In fact, much of
Montrose Travel’s success is due to the amazing work she has accomplished.
Proudly funding its organic growth solely from profit and positive cash flow,
Montrose Travel has never had any debt on its balance sheet and continues
to remain one of the most financially healthy Travel Management
Companies in the United States. Successfully navigating its way through all
the challenges, tragedies, and opportunities of the travel industry including
9/11 and the economic downturn in 2008 – both which forever changed
the way we travel and do business – McClure’s skills and leadership were
always present. While most companies try to “cut” their way out of prob-
lems, Montrose Travel has always fought to “grow” their way out. As an
example, when other competitive travel agencies hunkered down in their
bunkers and cut all extraneous spending during these difficult periods of
time, due to McClure’s strong financial management skills, Montrose Travel
was able to aggressively quadruple its advertising spend allowing it to actu-
ally grow the business.
JULIE McCLURE
Montrose Travel
Montrose
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B
J Sattar has over 19 years of progressive experience in the accounting field work-
ing with closely held and publicly traded organizations in the entertainment,
financial services, manufacturing and distribution, real estate sectors. Her experi-
ence ranges from managing day-to-day accounting and treasury management
functions to fiscal reporting, audit, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions. A strategic
thinker, self-starter, energetic, focused, driven, well-rounded and articulate are all ways to
describe and distinguish Sattar in her professional acumen. She strives to identify ways in
which she can add value to business processes and the overall financial growth of the organ-
ization. ADCO produces covers for recreational vehicles, automobiles and patio furniture.
About two years ago they hired Sattar as the company’s CFO. Initially she was involved in
updating the accounting system and financial operations of the company as well as provid-
ing the normal financial reporting for a growing company with operations in three coun-
tries. During these two years the company moved to Valencia from Studio City and brought
a significant amount of inventory into their new warehouse. This change required signifi-
cant cash management and coordination with Comerica Bank. During this transition Sattar
communicated extensively with the bank at every significant event. At the same time she
expanded the detail in financial reporting allowing the company to better understand its
income and expenses across multiple products. Colleagues and people from other organiza-
tions and banks who work with Sattar report that she is very organized, has a good under-
standing of complicated legal agreements and repeatedly presents all information in an easy
to follow format, with audit trails back to the originating documentation.
BJ SATTAR
Financial Controller/Chief Financial Officer
ADCO Products Inc.
Valencia
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isa Turchan has been the Chief Financial Officer for The Buckley School since
2004. Her role as CFO has changed the financial position of the school in 10
years, in which time she has led and managed all nonacademic functions for the
not-for-profit K-12 school, including the business office, human resources, IT, risk
management and campus operations. Established the School’s financial rating as
Investment Grade A by increasing the Board Reserves from less than $1 million in 2004 to
over $18 million in 2014. In the decade since she started with The Buckley School,
Turchan has grown the School’s endowment by over 150%. She has also developed a cash
management strategy, selected a manager targeting returns to achieve long term strategic
goals while balancing the risk levels. Turchan is also a key strategist and developer of
Campus Master Plan obtaining City entitlement for a new conditional use permit (CUP),
allowing for growth in enrollment by 80 students, construction of approximately 95,000 of
net new square feet and greater campus usage. She is also the representative for the Master
Building Plan, managing an overall $42.5 million campus enhancement plan budget,
delivering projects on time and under budget. Under her financial stewardship, the school
built its first new campus state of the art buildings in over 30 years. She has been instru-
mental in maintaining full enrollment, including an increase of 80 students from 2008 to
present, during a weak economic climate and led the charge in increasing the level of
financial aid the School awards from 7.5% to 12% of expenses to address the growing need
of applicant families. She also serves as liaison to the Board of Trustees, succinctly present-
ing all financial and operational communications. Her dramatic impact on the school has
largely been thanks to her disciplined approach and creation of a long-term vision.
LISA TURCHAN
The Buckley School
Sherman Oaks

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Calabasas
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Cheesecake Factory
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BlackLine Systems
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Jason Boling
Cherokee Inc.
Van Nuys
Tom Emrey
DineEquity Inc.
Glendale
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MRV Communications, Inc.
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MOVE, Inc.
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Controller & Corporate Secretary
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Tix Corporation
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Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
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Van Nuys
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Corporate Controller
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Chatsworth
Margaret Killeen
Controller
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Harbor Freight Tools
Calabasas
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So Cal CDC
Valencia
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Executive Vice President &
Guitar Center
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Senior Vice President of Finance &
Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Financial Officer &
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Project GRAD Los Angeles Inc.
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American Fruits and Flavors
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Unicare Pharmacy Inc. DBA MedicoRX
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Glendale
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Wood Ranch BBQ
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Alfred Music
Van Nuys
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Senior Vice President
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Public Storage
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President
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Woodland Hills
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Treasurer
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& General Manager
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Avjet Corporation
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Clay Lacy Aviation
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At the Event
Over 300 attendees were on hand for the Business Journal’s CFO Awards Reception and Luncheon event at the Warner Center Marriott Hotel.

Businesses around the world seek
enhanced competencies among
their finance professionals to bet-
ter address the challenges and opportuni-
ties of today’s complex business environ-
ment. Based on extensive global research
among employers and other stakeholders,
the Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants (CIMA) and the American
Institute of CPAs (AICPA), two of the
world’s largest accounting organisations,
have identified a competency framework
with 45 areas where employers such as
IBM and Unilever expect proficiency.
The framework is comprised of four
knowledge areas — technical, business,
people and leadership — with competen-
cies defined at four levels: foundational,
intermediate, advanced and expert. It was
developed through research that included
a survey of nearly 3,400 members, stu-
dents and educators; roundtable discus-
sions in 13 countries; and in-person
interviews with representatives from 67
organisations, including IBM, Unilever,
Microsoft and Shell.
The CGMA Competency Framework
was created to assist Chartered Global
Management Accountants – including
CFOs, controllers and treasurers – in iden-
tifying the broad skills employers expect
from their finance professionals. The
framework helps management accountants
assess their current competency level and
provides insight on steps they can take to
expand their skills while meeting their
commitment to lifelong learning. It is pub-
licly available to any employer or educator
to benchmark their team’s capability, cre-
ate job profiles or design curriculum.
Expected capabilities include risk man-
agement and internal controls, macroeco-
nomic analysis, communication and
negotiation along with strategic under-
standing in a global context. Technical
financial competencies include financial
accounting and reporting, management
reporting and analysis, and risk manage-
ment. The number of competencies and
proficiency expected varies by functional
area and level of seniority.
Charles Tilley FCMA, CGMA, Chief
Executive, CIMA, said, “With the role of
finance constantly developing it can be
hard for employers to know the standard
to expect of their management account-
ants. The CGMA Competency Framework
is research-led and informed by those on
the front line of business and it will show
employers the new knowledge require-
ments and skills needed for both current
and future management accountancy
roles. In addition, it will help accountants
to become more employable by guiding
them through their professional develop-
ment, as well as helping educators to bet-
ter prepare students to become well-
grounded management accountants.”
The competency framework underpins
the updated CIMA Syllabus that will be
examined from January 2015, and under-
scores the commitment of both CIMA
and the AICPA to meeting the needs of
business. The organizations, through a
global joint venture, created the CGMA
designation in January 2012 so employers
anywhere in the world can easily identify
management accountants with the high-
est levels of technical knowledge, busi-
ness acumen and ethical integrity.
In addition to helping organizations
find and develop high quality talent,
CIMA and the AICPA are also working to
help improve the decision-making and
forecasting processes that businesses use.
They are developing a set of Global
Management Accounting Principles that
will provide businesses with the first set
of globally applicable management
accounting best practices to more effec-
tively manage the complexity that
defines modern business.
“Today’s CEOs need a partner at the
helm – a co-pilot to help steer clear of
obstacles and toward opportunities,” said
Barry Melancon, CPA, CGMA, president
and CEO of the AICPA. “They are turn-
ing to their management accountants to
provide this guidance, to pull insight
from information and connect it to oper-
ations in new ways to position their busi-
nesses for long-term, sustainable success.
The CGMA Competency Framework
ensures management accountants’ skills
remain aligned with the demands of an
increasingly complex and constantly
changing business environment.”
Information for this article was provided by
AICPA. To learn more, visit AICPA.org.
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