Ghana CFO awards launched
The second edition of the Ghana CFO awards has been launched at a ceremony in Accra. The awards scheme, which has been an annual event, would be organised by Instinct Wave Limited.
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The Ghana CFO is expected to showcase and acknowledge not only chief financial officers and their teams, but also firms that provide them with the services, support and technologies that enable their individual success.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Instinct Wave Limited, Mr Akin Naphtal, said CFOs played a key role in driving innovation, business model optimisation, strategic leadership and proactive stakeholder engagement – yet they were the least mentioned or noticed in the limelight, unlike chief executive officers and marketing managers.
“The 2016 CFO Awards celebrate Ghana's top chief financial officers and senior finance executives at another awards networking dinner,” he added.
According to him, this year’s award category has been extended to all industry sectors in the country with the aim of recognising and honouring the accomplishment of finance executives doing exceptionally well and contributing to the growth of their organisations and nation at large.
He said this year’s awards would precede a CFO Lecture for all finance executives in the country to discuss major issues, challenges and the way forward for finance professionals to explore their fields for growth.
Our goal for this year’s CFO Lecture and awards is to showcase the functions and role played by finance executives while honouring and acknowledging finance executives or CFOs and their teams including the organisations that provided them with relevant resources for their success and growth, he added.
He indicated that the Ghana CFO Lecture was a key opportunity for finance leaders across all industry sectors to examine issues, share insights and best practices.
He said this year’s lecture would bring together innovative leaders in the country to talk about top issues in the profession, the role to driving innovation, business model optimisation, strategic leadership and proactive stakeholder engagement.
According to research, value creation rather than scorekeeping is the mission of today's corporate financial leaders. This it says does not just require CFOs to help executives, boards and business unit managers make effective decisions; it requires them to challenge decisions and in the end endorse them as well.