What Happens When a Company Sleeps Through IFRS 18
IFRS 18 becomes mandatory from the 2027 financial year. That sounds like ample time. It is not. And the consequences of failing…
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Leadership Through Change: Why Teams Do Not Resist Change but Resist Silence
There is a moment in change processes that is almost always misinterpreted. The team does not pull together. Bookings slow down. Meetings…
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When the Auditor Asks Questions No One Can Answer
There is a moment in an audit of the financial statements that is unlike any other. The moment in which the auditor…
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Reconstruction Audit: What to Do When No One Remembers What Was Posted
There are audit situations that appear in no textbook, because they are too specific, too uncomfortable and too rare to be described…
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What a Company Loses When an Interim Manager Leaves Too Early
I would like to begin this article with a situation I experienced myself. Not because it is pleasant to write about. But…
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Implementing SOX Under Time Pressure: What CFOs Should Not Do Right Now
There is a particular way SOX projects begin in organisations that are under time pressure. A date is set. Usually from outside:…
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AI in Finance: Why the Revolution Isn’t Happening and What That Has to Do with Leadership
I recently had a conversation with a CFO that I can't stop thinking about. I asked him how far his organisation had…
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The E-Invoicing Obligation Is Coming. What It Does to Your AP Process.
Since 1 January 2025, B2B companies in Germany have been required to be able to receive structured electronic invoices. From 2027, they…
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What Distinguishes Real Expertise from Performed Expertise
There is a moment in every interim engagement that decides everything. Not the first meeting. Not the first presentation. Not the first…
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Audit-Ready HGB Financial Statements in 30 Days: What Is Realistic and What Is Not
When a CFO calls me and says they need an audit-ready set of German GAAP (HGB) financial statements in 30 days, there…
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Why Your AP Team Has Been Behind for Weeks
and why the answer shouldn't surprise anyone, except those who could change it
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Provider vs. Direct Mandate: What CFOs Should Know About the Margin
There is a convention in interim management that has become so taken-for-granted that almost no one questions it anymore. Companies that need…
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Sustainability Doesn’t Belong in Marketing. It Belongs in Financial Steering.
There is a question CFOs of mid-sized companies have increasingly been asked in recent years, without it being explicitly formulated that way….
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The Most Dangerous Employee in Your Finance Organization Is the One Without Whom Nothing Runs
There is one in almost every finance organization. The person who always has the answer. Who steps in when there's a fire.…
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Remediation Without Governance Is a Waste of Time
Remediation is one of those words that comes up often in finance organizations when something has gone wrong. Audit findings, faulty closings,…
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Intercompany Reconciliations: Why Unresolved Differences Are a Leadership Problem, Not a Bookkeeping Problem
There is a moment in every group close that reveals how stable a finance organization really is. Not the moment when the…
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Documentation for HGB Auditors: Why Most Finance Organizations Make the Same Mistake
There is a moment that comes at some point in almost every year-end audit. The auditor asks a question. Not a difficult…
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Interim Management in Accounting: What CFOs Really Need to Know
There is a situation almost every CFO knows, even if they rarely name it as such. The Head of Accounting resigns. Or…
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IFRS 18: What CFOs Need to Know Now and Why Most Implementations Will Fail
There is a quality that all major accounting standard introductions of the last twenty years had in common. With IFRS 15 it…
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KPI Dashboards in the Interim Mandate
Why the first 72 hours of an interim mandate decide success — and which KPI set an interim manager builds in a…
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