The whole notion of CFO’s becoming the watchdog of CEO’s and the public face of many enterprises, has its roots in the 1980’s, when financial engineering took a front seat to operational skills. Problem is, the exact skills that make for a good CFO make for a terrible company spokesman. As evidenced by recent gaffes commited by Yahoo’s Susan Decker and Google’s George Reyes.
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