chief financial officer

1. 1.

   the corporate executive having financial authority to make appropriations and authorize expenditures for a firm

   SynonymsCFO

   Broadercorporate executive

Questions about chief financial officer

What does chief financial officer mean?

chief financial officer means "the corporate executive having financial authority to make appropriations and authorize expenditures for a firm".

What is another word for chief financial officer?

Close synonyms include CFO. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chief financial officer a common word?

chief financial officer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.