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Entrepreneur op-ed argues CFOs should expand influence beyond finance functions

An Entrepreneur contributor writes that the modern CFO role increasingly stretches beyond accounting, treasury and financial planning into sales, product development, operations, technology, risk and strategy. Drawing on experience across construction and financial services CFO roles, the author says financial reporting, liquidity and controls should remain the foundation of the job rather than its outer limit. The piece calls for CFOs to embed themselves in commercial functions like sales pricing and incentive structures.

entrepreneur.com · 2026-09-23

Payments Founder Warns Growth Exposes Hidden Technical and Compliance Debt

An Entrepreneur contributor writing from experience scaling a regulated payments company argues that surpassing roughly 100,000 customers does not mark the end of hard problems but the start of new, more dangerous ones. Early shortcuts in engineering, treasury, compliance and onboarding that worked at small scale begin to buckle under volume, often without warning until systems are already strained.

entrepreneur.com · 2026-09-11