Turnover for financial officers—CFOs, controllers, treasurers—is decreasing (albeit still high in the range of 13%), according to Russell Reynold’s Financial Officers’ Turnover, 2007 Study. But, as outlined in the article, CFOs need to rise above the financials, they are struggling to assert their influence in business decisions.

Chief financial officers (CFOs) and finance executives need to improve the quality of their organisations’ management information if they are to fulfil their ambition of updating their role and influencing senior decision-makers, according to a survey by CFO Europe Research Services for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Substitute Human Resource executives for CFOs in that finding and it sure sounds familiar!