The FD Future Agenda: Compliance and careers

Posted by Christian Doherty in Risk & Regs, Career Ladder on Fri, 30/10/2009 - 08:23
  • The regulation bandwagon is careering out of control
  • FD's careers and roles are fast changing to handle the tectonic shifts
  • Can the FD make the shift to chair and non-exec roles, leveraging his special skillsets?

The current rash of new regulation being introduced in the wake of the banking crisis is far from over. Regulators are taking the bull by the horns and re-examining the rules of the system. Anything that is deemed to have encouraged the reckless practices is being rooted out and removed apparently.

Rooting and removal seeming to take precedence over commonsense in a guilt-fuelled attempt to make right what shouldn't have gone wrong.

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What are your top business challenges today?

2009-08-12 14:53 - 10393 reads
Getting through to 2H 2010
7% (5 votes)
Planning strategies for growth after the recession
14% (10 votes)
Keeping down costs
31% (22 votes)
Raising capital and credit
6% (4 votes)
Maintaining a healthy cashflow
42% (30 votes)
Total votes: 71

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