The role of the CFO is becoming much more visionary. It's an opportunity to do much more, recognizing that everybody is a resource. 'Counting beans' is [dealing with] historic information, and that's relevant to the extent that you can learn from it and do things better in the future. It's much more exciting to be looking forward.

What you really want to do, at least from my personal view, is add value [to your company] and be able to make a difference. I can make far more of a difference by going out and explaining to people how they can use our technology and [thereby] make their jobs easier. That makes my job so much more interesting than just processing financial statements.