The Role of the CFO

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is generally the least understood of the executive positions within a company. This presentation focuses on the role of the CFO in companies that are experiencing rapid change. It discusses how a CFO sets priorities, what work a CFO’s people should and shouldn’t be doing, and how the CFO’s focus must change with a changing company. If you understand the pressures facing a CFO and what motivates them, working in accounting and finance can be one of the most rewarding positions within a company. Mr. Moore has led companies from early stage to initial public offering twice in the past 15 years and will discuss how the CFO’s focus, role and responsibilities evolve with the changing needs of a company.

About your speaker: Emmett Moore
Emmett has been a Controller, Treasurer, COO and CFO with companies ranging in size from 50 to 3,000 people. His 25 years of experience have been focused on raising capital, M&A, and managing accounting and finance teams in companies that were experiencing rapid change. After receiving his BA from Dartmouth College in 1988, he started work in public accounting with Ernst and Young, and received his masters in Accounting and MBA from New York University. He became a CPA in 1993 and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) in 1998.

During his career, Emmett has worked with early stage, private and public companies and is an expert at helping companies forecast cash and operating results to navigate uncertain futures. He has raised more than $2 billion in equity and debt capital including two Initial Public Offerings. After moving to Atlanta in 2002, he served as a CFO partner with Tatum Partners before joining a Duluth, GA based military contractor, DataPath, in 2005. Since selling DataPath to Rockwell Collins in 2009 Emmett has focused his consulting practice on helping companies forecast cash and operating results to support their ability to raise capital, budget effectively, restructure, eliminate obstacles to growth and in general upgrade their approach to accounting and finance to focus on customer needs.

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