Finance Mole will not be outmanoeuvred by a pushy head of sales when transatlantic problems at head office delay the finalisation of the annual budget for yet another month, not to mention a credit control issue with Russia
The one advantage of having a head office based stateside is that major crises can blow up without the ability to resolve them in a sane time frame.
Now we’re in February, there’s a sense of urgency about dealing with some of the work shelved at the back end of last year. For a brief while all the work that has been dragging on can be happily stuffed in a cupboard. Unfortunately, with February upon us, there is absolutely no excuse and all the work comes tumbling out like a pile of board games with the pieces spilling everywhere.
The new year had started with a ‘C Suite’ level crisis that had led to a certain amount of panic at Head Office in the US. The budget, which had supposed to have been rubber stamped at the late-December board meeting had ground to halt while we frantically tried to recalculate 2019 run-rate and argue about headcount, desperately trying to avoid being behind the budget before we’d even started.
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