Position practices of the present-day CFO: A reflection on historicroles at Guinness, 1920–1945
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2017
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Asociación Española de Profesores Universitarios de Contabilidad
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nLos estudios contemporáneos sobre la figura del «director financiero» (Chief Financial Officer, CFO) lodescriben con un papel más transaccional antes de 1960. Las investigaciones históricas arrojan algu-nas dudas, pero tienden a no separar el rol del sujeto. En nuestro trabajo analizamos dicha figura enel seno de una gran fábrica de cerveza durante el periodo 1920–1945. Basándonos en el concepto deposición-prácticas, nuestros resultados muestran que anteriormente el rol del CFO estaba orientadohacia posiciones-prácticas existentes pero independientes del sujeto que las llevaba a cabo. Algunasposiciones-prácticas se pueden reconocer en los roles del CFO contemporáneo. Es importante destacarque centrarnos en el rol frente al sujeto nos da la posibilidad de orientar de una forma más amplia nuestrosfuturos trabajos sobre el rol contemporáneo
tContemporary studies of Chief Financial Officers (CFO) paint a picture of the role pre-1960 as beingreflective of a more transactional one. Historical research sheds some doubt on this, and tends not toseparate the role from its occupier. We provide an analysis of such a role in a large brewery from about1920 to 1945. Drawing on the concept of position-practices, our results suggest that a CFO-predecessorrole was informed by existing position-practices, which are separately identifiable from the occupier ofthe role itself. Some of the position-practices are recognizable in contemporary CFO roles. Importantly,focusing on the role as opposed to the occupier, gives our study potential to more broadly inform futureresearch on the contemporary role
tContemporary studies of Chief Financial Officers (CFO) paint a picture of the role pre-1960 as beingreflective of a more transactional one. Historical research sheds some doubt on this, and tends not toseparate the role from its occupier. We provide an analysis of such a role in a large brewery from about1920 to 1945. Drawing on the concept of position-practices, our results suggest that a CFO-predecessorrole was informed by existing position-practices, which are separately identifiable from the occupier ofthe role itself. Some of the position-practices are recognizable in contemporary CFO roles. Importantly,focusing on the role as opposed to the occupier, gives our study potential to more broadly inform futureresearch on the contemporary role
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Martínez Franco, C.; Freeney, O.; Quinn, M.; Hiebl, M. (2917), Position practices of the present-day CFO: A reflection on historicroles at Guinness, 1920–1945, Revista de Contabilidad - Spanish Accounting Review (RC-SAR), 20(1), 55-62.
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