In these competitive times, survival depends largely on an organization's capabilities to anticipate and prepare for change rather than just react to it. The role of the financial officer, thus, becomes crucial to meet these technological, economic and political, changes. In today's business world what is the role of a financial manager? We have all heard at one time or another that "a financial managers wears many hats." The role of the financial manager has …showed first 75 words of 943 total…

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