Spotlight on Independent Retailer Month

Spotlight on Independent Retailer Month

July is independent retailer month, a campaign that runs each year in July to ” highlight the important role smaller, local, independent retailers play in the communities they serve, the local economy they contribute to, and in the retail sector as a whole” Independent Retailer Month.co.uk. Independent retailer month aims to impact the retail sector…

Benefits of Mentoring your Staff

Benefits of Mentoring your Staff

When looking at how companies become successful, one trait which stands above many others is that successful companies have excellent leaders and with excellent leaders come excellent employees.  This is why WrightCFO has launched a Finance Mentoring Programme, whereby an experienced WrightCFO Finance Director meets once a month with your finance employee (usually a finance…

Forming a state-of-the-art Finance Team: it’s all about personality.

Forming a state-of-the-art Finance Team: it’s all about personality.

When hiring finance staff personality is more important than experience and education.  The first you are born with, the other two you can work on. Mark Dumon describes the 7 types of personalities which are deemed to fail in Finance.  http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financialcareers/09/7-people-fail-finance.asp  They include the Selfish Jerk, the Doormat and the Excel Lightweight. You may be surprised…