I study an important accounting consequence—financial misstatements—of CFO outside board membership. I find that firms … control for unobserved factors that may affect both incidence of CFO outside directorships and a firm's financial … misstatements. I also provide some preliminary insights into CFO and home-firm characteristics that determine CFO outside board …

The demand for chief financial officer (CFO) service on corporate boards has grown substantially in recent years …, leading to questions about how these outside board appointments might affect a CFO's ability to fulfill her responsibilities … exceptions, CFO outside board service is beneficial, on average, in that it leads to higher home firm financial reporting quality …

important role in negotiations, nonetheless activism research mainly focuses on CEOs. We examine the relationship between CFO … activists take CFO overconfidence into account when deciding to invest in a firm with firms managed by overconfident CFOs being … significantly less likely to get targeted. These effects increase with the strength of CFO overconfidence and persist for different …

experience. She has been training corporate directors and senior executives for more than a decade. She is founder editor of the …