\"Though risk management will continue to remain in focus, the hopes of an expected revival will see CFOs starting to take risks...\" says L&T CFO R Shankar Raman.

RK Garg, director (finance), Petronet LNG says  a CFO should provide support to CEO and his counterparts. The CFO should arrange funds at the right time and cheap cost for the company.

Page Industries, executive director (finance), Pius Thomas says the budding CEOs should master the various aspects of the profession. The finance professionals should not hop their jobs continously.

Raj Kumar Baheti, director and president (finance) at Alembic Pharma says aspiring CFOs should be good team members. They should have indepth knowledge of the business of the company.

Dr Reddy's CFO Saumen Chakraborty says CFOs in the pharma industry should not take too much financial risk. A CFO should drive business performance and create more value for the organisation.

Ramakrishnan Subramanian, VP -finance, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer says aspiring CFOs should focus on becoming business strategists. The CFO should move out of accounting aspects and move into business aspects.

Pratibha K Advani, CFO, NIIT Technologies says CFOs should ensure growth of the organisation. They should successfully manage stakeholders. 

Ashok Bhandari, CFO and ED at Shree Cement says starting and end point of a business should be cash. Realisation of profit into cash is more important for a sustainable business model.

Titan Company CFO and ED Subbu Subramaniam says the aspiring CEOs should have hunger for learning at business level. They should understand the building blocks of the business.

Sandeep Batra, director (finance), Pidilite Industries says CFOs should take timely decisions to become successful business leaders. A young finance professional should understand various aspects of finance and get into details of finance functions which will help him in his leadership role in the future.  

Former CFO and EVP at Mphasis Ganesh Murthy says the budding CEOs should build a relationship of trust with key stakeholders, and conduct themselves with high level of integrity.

L Kulshrestha, GM (finance) at GMDC says young finance professionals should review the system and understand the delegation of power in the organisation.

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