
Good morning. Expectations for CFOs to deliver results across the entire enterprise have never been higher.
In recent years, finance chiefs must think of themselves as “executive first, and CFO second,” Rob O’Donohue, a VP and analyst at Gartner, said during the firm’s annual CFO and finance executive conference on Tuesday at National Harbor in Maryland. That means CFOs are now expected to think beyond their primary roles and drive cross-functional initiatives, he said.