After You Fire Your CFO: Build an AI Enabled Finance Department that Never Sleeps

The leader who builds this machine before their competitor does is not optimizing. They are winning.Every AI finance transformation in America starts the same way: a presentation, some enthusiasm, a pilot. Then it hits the real organization and dies. Not because the tools do not work. Because nobody mapped the failure modes first.This book maps them. Then it tells you exactly what to do.15 chapters. Each one produces a deliverable: - A diagnostic that tells you honestly where your finance function stands before you touch any tooling - A close transformation playbook: from 10-day close to real-time, with the sequence, the governance, and the audit trail - An FP&A automation framework that produces board-ready forecasts as machine-generated first drafts - Technical accounting workflows for ASC 805, ASC 842, and ASC 606 that preserve the judgment layer a controller must own - The governance structure that makes the whole system defensible - including through audits and personnel changes - An 18-month build plan with 20 milestones, milestone owners, and evidence-of-completion requirements - The political strategy for getting this done inside a resistant organization without losing the sponsorship you need This is a field manual. That word is chosen deliberately. A field manual tells you what to do when the situation is unclear, resources are limited, and waiting for better conditions is not an option.Part of the StackedCFO Series. Each book is a standalone read.