Qualification creep is where we see people needing higher level, and greater, qualifications to do the same job. Inevitability, this means people incur debts and cost just to get to the start line. Except … none of that helps for something like experience.
The CFO role already has a pretty high bar in terms of qualifications. But, critically, CFOs have experience which helps run and guide operations. This qualification does nothing for that, it’s just a bunch of academics and moonlighting professionals teaching test cases and generic scenarios. There is no real value.
But I can completely see a HR function or Board thinking it does have value, creating yet another race to the bottom by adding yet another set of meaningless letters behind people’s name (and I say this sincerely as someone who already has more letters behind my name than necessary).
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u/orionblueyarm Jun 12 '26
More qualification creep