Hackett: CFO Magazine, 'Is Your Finance Job Recession-Proof?'

  
    
  
  
    
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      You might not have liked your job much recently, but if there was one 
      silver lining to the years of post-Enron reforms and regulatory 
      pressure, it was the near-guarantee of employment for anyone with 
      accounting or finance skills.
    
    
      But is that one solace now also in jeopardy? Turmoil in overseas markets 
      on Martin Luther King Day had the Fed on a hair trigger to drop rates 75 
      basis points almost as soon as U.S. markets reopened Tuesday. With a 
      recession increasingly likely, CFOs will be looking for cost cuts — 
      and possibly leading by example.
    
    
      Hackett Finance Practice Leader Bryan Hall is featured in this article 
      on the potential impact of a recession on each finance function: tax, 
      internal audit, treasurer, and controller, as well as the prospects for 
      finance employees in general, and, yes, for the CFO.
    
    
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