The Executive's Guide to Financial Management

DEWEY NORTON has been the CFO and corporate controller of numerous international public companies in technology and manufacturing where he has led financial turnarounds, support of exponential growth, acquisitions, divestitures, formation of joint ventures, SEC reporting, negotiation of large scale loan agreements and raising equity. He has worked at Ford Motor Company, GKN, Baldwin Filters, Avista Laboratories, Robert Half Management Resources and several entrepreneurial companies. He has twice been named one of the five best managers worldwide in a NYSE company and most valuable employee of a pre IPO company. In addition to his work in finance and accounting, he has also led several successful implementations of enterprise wide business systems and published an article on how to do this. He has led supply chain management and human resources. Dewey is active in leadership of the profession in Financial Executives International where he has been President of the Los Angeles and Nebraska chapters, Vice Chairman of the international Committee on Finance and Information Technology, founder and for seven years editor of their Technology Survey for Financial Executives, Chairman of their international conference on business and technology, adviser to a Financial Executives Research Foundation study on data warehousing, and a member of the national Committee on (federal) Government Business. He has a BA and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, USA and an MBA from Wharton School.