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CFO

CFO

30 4.6
A senior manager who manages a company's money, plans budgets, and reports results
  • noun
  • /ˌsiːˌɛfˈoʊ/
translation icon : director financiero
  • The CFO of the company carefully reviewed the financial reports before the meeting.
  • CEO and CFO

We do know that Zach, the CFO of Tesla, has told us.

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Examples

  • Eduardo is CFO, and owns 30 percent.

  • How long have you been CFO of this company, sir?

  • Interesting, as a CFO, my boss says to me, "Goal: grow bottom line by 5%."

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  • My dream was to be a controller or a CFO of a company.

    Blog text (1)
  • My CFO says the money hasn't arrived yet.

  • We do know that Zach, the CFO of Tesla, has told us.

  • Now, to provide you all with greater details on our financial performance, here's our CFO, Robert Olson.

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  • So I met with their CFO and presented a formula for restructuring some of their long-term debt.

  • The company's old CFO and interim CEO, Thomas Seifert, left in September.

    Blog text (16)
  • To gather information on DRPs, a questionnaire was sent to an organization's CFO or controller.

    Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

17 3.3

A person who looks after a company's money, receives payments, pays bills, and keeps records

covers broader financial planning, reporting, and strategic budgeting responsibilities

A senior manager who looks after a company's money, makes budgets, and prepares financial reports

has identical meaning but is commonly used as an abbreviation for the role
12 4.5

A senior manager who makes important plans and decisions for a company

concentrates on financial management rather than broad corporate strategy

How Senior

CFO
30 4.6
controller
  • US
8 4.3
accountant
212 2.7
clerk
273 2.5

Surface Forms

CFO singular
CFOs plural

Morphology

CFO = chief + financial + officer (semi-transparent) = C + F + O

An initialism that directly represents the phrase 'Chief Financial Officer'; a learner who knows that phrase will immediately understand the acronym. [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]

Etymology

The word CFO is an abbreviation of Chief Financial Officer, where Chief means 'head', Financial means 'money', and Officer means 'person in charge'. So, a CFO is the head who plans budgets, manages the company's money, and reports on its finances.