CFO Survey

Questions marked with a * are required

How much do you think each of these drivers increased the importance of the CFO role through the decades?:

* Funding of diversifying acquisitions

* Increasing complexity of regulations on Financial Reporting

* Increasing involvement of the Shareholders

* More complicated investment strategy

Please allocate 100 points on how the CFO spends his/her time on daily basis:

Financial Reporting & Taxation

Treasury

Business Controlling

Planning and Management Reporting

Risk Management & Compliance

How much has been improved each of these factors compared to the past for a CFO:

Navigation of the enterprise

Resilience to unforeseen events

Mediation with the external stakeholders

Connectivity within the finance teams

How much of these factors has been an obstacle to the improvement of the quality of the CFOs through the years:

Expanding necessary competencies

Arduousness to initiate the change

Inefficiencies in the knowledge sharing in the enterprise

* Please rank (1-11) the following challenges of the CFOs in the future in order of significance:

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Globalization Changing mindset from Finance to Business oriented Complexity of regulations Innovative approaches Business Intelligence and computerization Scale or Fail concept Imposing discipline on the emerging markets From Intuition to Data driven decisions Time management Complexity of the macroeconomic conditions Recruiting of capable employees

How much do you think each of these methods would help the CFOs to face successfully these challenges?:

Receiving Training

Improvement of the business processes

Value Added interpretative analysis

Balance risk with non-traditional approaches

Organization-wide systems

Please allocate 100 points on the following layers of entreprise organization according to the time a CFO should spent on each of them:

Department and Operations

Company going concern

Strategy and Planning management

Corporate Social Responsibility

Please rank in respect to the significance of each of these factors/skills to the sucess of a CFO:

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Academic background Working experience Financial Technology Skills Manager/Leader position experience ACCA or CFA Bilingual (FR/NL) Awareness of both big Belgian states/markets Internal/External Recruit Knowledge of the Regulations and the Operation procedures

Which academic qualification is more important for a CFO, please rank (1-3) in order of significance:

Which characteristics are the most important for a CFO, please rank from 1-3 in order of significance:

Managerial working experience
Diversfied basket of roles through his/career path
Purely financial working experience