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Finance vs. Accounting

CFO Simplified

In publicly traded companies, the CFO is also responsible for the company’s compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and regulations. Leaders in finance are most successful when they have skills in communication, quantitative analysis, financial planning, and team building.

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Transcript: Savita Subramanian

Barry Ritholtz

Because these regulated banks had to hire all these legal and compliance and expert folks to make sure we weren’t doing anything bad, right? It’s, 01:13:32 [Speaker Changed] What sort of advice would you give a recent college grad interested in a career in either finance, quantitative analysis or, or investing?

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