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CFO Executive Board Value Proposition | 5
A Membership That Pays for Itself
Serving thousands of CFOs for more than ten years has enabled us to gain a unique
perspective on their pressing challenges and how these can be overcome most effectively
Mission
The CFO Executive Board supports CFOs by
ensuring that corporate finance strategy and its
implementation is rooted in analytical rigor and
economic logic. Our research gauges the business
impact of Finance activities and focuses strategies
and resources on the highest-return initiatives.
Resources
Members receive unlimited access to our services,
including full access for the entire finance staff to our
archive of more than 1,000 research briefs, attendance
at executive retreats, training and development
resources, finance diagnostic and benchmarking tools,
teleconferences, and implementation support.
Membership
We serve the largest global network of CFOs—
finance leaders in more than 650 member
organizations, reflecting great diversity across
industry, geography, and organization size.
Service
We ensure and guarantee a member’s return on
membership. Upon joining the Board, members
are provided with a comprehensive introduction
to our services, and our account directors work
closely with members and their team across the
year to diagnose and respond to their organization’s
most critical finance issues.
Our Core Service Proposition
Case-based best practices research (and proprietary quantitative research) through which we share insights
and actionable solutions
Cross-functional perspectives on corporate fi nance, drawn from the Corporate Executive Board's unique
access to the insights of Finance’s business partners
Practical tools and templates that provide accurate benchmarks, diagnose problems, train staff, and supply
appropriate solutions
Saving You Time
We help you avoid
reinventing the wheel with
practices already profi led
in our research.
We shorten learning curves
for staff.
We save time by serving as an
“always-on” project resource
providing benchmarks,
diagnosing problems,
training staff, and supplying
appropriate solutions.
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Improving Your
Effectiveness
We help you validate or
reprioritize your strategic
agenda.
We enable you to avoid
false starts and speed
implementation.
We provide key functional
benchmarks (qualitative and
quantitative) and guide you
in improving performance.
Saving You Money
We help you shorten or avoid
consulting engagements.
We identify opportunities for
cost cutting, standardization,
digitization, and process
streamlining.
We replace the expense of
one-off executive education
and professional development
seminars.