Over the last 18-months, I’ve been continuing to develop my blog and use it as a platform to provide wider insights to a primarily non-Finance population. The goal has been to improve financial awareness through all functional areas of an organization and allow those groups to better understand what “drives” the Finance department, which often, may not be the best communicator. Fortunately, I’ve been able to provide as much value for the corporate finance community as well.  Recently, I was contacted by John Kogan, the founder of Proformative.com , to provide guest blog commentary, along with some peers whom I have been fortunate enough to network with.

            After speaking with John, I immediately liked the direction he was going with Proformative.com, which is a “free, open, and independent community of corporate finance, accounting and related professionals interested in asking questions, sharing knowledge and resources, and getting work done”. The site “provides a common ground on which to meet, communicate, and help one another with day-to-day issues involved in the highly complex and technical worlds we work in”.  The other aspect of the site that I was immediately impressed with was the documented Community Conduct page.  While simple and obvious, there are rules to abide by on the site, and if not followed, will be enforced and users dropped or sanctioned.  Additionally, there is no self-promotion on the site…i.e. advertising. There are no press releases, spam, schemes, or other promotional materials allowed. Bottom line, it’s a finance-centric site that is operated by and for corporate finance professionals.

            On the site, there are a number of different areas that are of keen interest. Particularly, there is an offering of different groups, discussions, resources, jobs, blogs, and events. As an example, the offering within the Group section includes:

Ø  CFO’s

Ø  Corporate Controllers

Ø  Cost Accounting

Ø  Director / VP Finance

Ø  FEI members

Ø  Non-Profit finance

Ø  Risk Management

 

            John has put together a great platform with Proformative.com , and if you work in Finance, there’s definitely a value in helping to promote and build this platform. It’s worth taking a few minutes to review, sign-up, and be a part of this platform.

 

Thanks for reading . . . .

 

Jeffrey Ishmael