"The similarities of SCC with Enron were purely technical. It was rated, it wasn't off balance-sheet financing for McDonald's, and no-one was unfairly enriched," says a former treasurer of McDonald's and one of CFO's 60 movers and shakers in CF's 20th anniversary edition.
To celebrate 20 years of Corporate Finance magazine we profiled 20 treasurers of the future, 20 CFOs of the future and 20 CFOs of the past. To find out who has most influenced the world of corporate finance, and who is being described below, click on CF's August issue:
"He created an entire industry: Sarbanes-Oxley compliance! I don't think another CFO has had as much influence that will last as long."
Here's the top 10 for each category ? click on the magazine link to read the full profile and to find out which other names appear in the top 20
| CFOs of the future |
Influential CFOs of the past 20 years |
Treasurer's of the future |
| Colin Waggett, Fitness First |
Carleton Pearl, Freescale Semiconductor |
Kathryn Cassidy, GE |
| Emmanuel Babeau, Pernod Ricard |
Richard Schneider, DRS Technologies |
Andy Longden, Shell |
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