CFO說(shuō)

CFO說(shuō)

Cobham CFO，Simon Nicholls

“I learned then that effective governance - controlling the things that really matter and not wasting resources on things that don't - can add huge value to a business，” He posits that at Cobham， “the governance structure has been put together incrementally as various different sets of regulations have come out.” What's needed， is to take a look at what the governance code is asking companies to do and ask “how we can best apply that in our the most efficient way and then allocate the resources to control what really are the risks in the business”.

英國(guó)最大的航空、國(guó)防科技公司Cobham的CFO Simon Nicholls談到，有效的公司治理就是管理真正重要的事情，不在其他事情上浪費(fèi)資源，這能夠?yàn)槠髽I(yè)帶來(lái)巨大的價(jià)值。”他介紹說(shuō)，“隨著各種管理規(guī)定的出臺(tái)，Cobham的治理結(jié)構(gòu)已經(jīng)被逐漸整合到一起。目前需要的是根據(jù)治理準(zhǔn)則對(duì)公司的要求，看如何以最高效的方式將這些準(zhǔn)則加以實(shí)施，并根據(jù)業(yè)務(wù)中真正的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)對(duì)資源加以分配。”

Great Portland Estates FD，Nick Sanderson

As a team， finance spends a lot of time trying to use what Sanderson calls small data. “The best source of small data is the intelligence that we get from our tenants. If you want to know what is going on in the central London economy， go back to the people who are in the buildings，” he says. On a more bottom-up approach， finance pulls together the data so that management can re-review the business plan for every single property every quarter. “We run through the business plan of each asset and examine the forward look returns and that helps inform us as to whether it should be a hold or sell. That is core to our strategy， in that every asset has to earn its position in the portfolio.” explains Sanderson.

英國(guó)房地產(chǎn)投資公司Great Portland Estates的財(cái)務(wù)總監(jiān)Nick Sanderson介紹說(shuō)，公司的財(cái)務(wù)團(tuán)隊(duì)在對(duì)“小數(shù)據(jù)”加以利用方面投入了大量時(shí)間。“租戶是小數(shù)據(jù)的最佳來(lái)源，只要與他們多溝通，就能了解倫敦市中心的經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展?fàn)顩r。”Great Portland Estates的財(cái)務(wù)采用自下而上的方式對(duì)數(shù)據(jù)進(jìn)行整合，這樣能夠使管理層做到每個(gè)季度對(duì)每項(xiàng)商業(yè)計(jì)劃進(jìn)行重新審查。“重新審查幫助我們確定是繼續(xù)持有資產(chǎn)還是進(jìn)行出售。這對(duì)于公司的戰(zhàn)略而言是至關(guān)重要的，每筆資產(chǎn)都必須在投資組合中有適當(dāng)?shù)奈恢谩！?/p>

Validis FD，Ajay Golam

“When it comes to financial planning and modelling， the role becomes bigger and more important，” Golam explains. “In all companies， the financial aspect is most important. We recently moved into an overseas market in the US， and that's a lot of work on the legal side. On the financial side， you're considering whether it is feasible and whether it will be profitable. Eventually， we reached the decision that it is， and that's a market we are moving into.”

審計(jì)SaaS軟件提供商Validis的財(cái)務(wù)總監(jiān)Ajay Golam認(rèn)為FD是一個(gè)“實(shí)踐性”的角色。“在關(guān)系到財(cái)務(wù)規(guī)劃和財(cái)務(wù)建模時(shí)，財(cái)務(wù)的角色變得異常重要。”Golam解釋說(shuō)，“在所有企業(yè)中，財(cái)務(wù)工作都是最重要的。最近我們剛進(jìn)入美國(guó)海外市場(chǎng)，在法律方面有很多工作要做。而在財(cái)務(wù)方面，就需要考慮是否可行、盈利性如何，最后才確定這個(gè)市場(chǎng)是可以進(jìn)入的。”