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The Disruptors

With Liz Farr

Stefan van Duyvendijk, Accounting Operations Evangelist at FloQast, wants accountants in the industry to expand their roles. In addition to the vital role of providing the basic requirements of accounting, he wants them to develop an operational mindset, as described in the book van Duyvendijk co-authored with Mike Whitmire, CEO of FloQast: Shift Happens: The Rise of the Operational Mindset and How Controllers Can Drive Real Value.

(Editor's Note: Liz Farr served as Developmental Editor on this book.) \

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The operational mindset isn’t just about “making sure we make the product, and we move the product, and we get it to people,” but it means taking the discipline accountants already have for optimizing accounting processes and “taking that and applying it to our work and saying, ‘I'm going to track what I do in work. I'm going to measure what I do and work objectively so that I can go in and improve it and change it,’” van Duyvendijk explains.

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