ACCOUNTANTS SHOULD BROADEN THEIR SKILLS TO BUILD BUSINESS SUCCESS SAYS IBM MANAGER

ACCOUNTANTS must become trusted business advisers to succeed in big corporations, says ACCA-qualified Sumathi Mohnani, whose 20-year career at IBM has seen her become Global Integration CFO for one of its subsidiaries – Sanovi Technologies. “You need to understand the business itself – the product or the service that you are selling,” she stressed. Indeed, when describing her work, it is clear that Ms Mohnani knows most details about the functioning, uses and marketing of the real-time data recovery systems sold by her company. Ms Mohnani’s current ...


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