Presenting Financial Topics to Non-Financial Types
By John Hutchison, CPA, MBA, SFO
Chief Financial Officer
Olathe (KS) Public Schools
The ability to communicate about school finance is inversely related to the knowledge you gain on the subject. In other words, the more I learn, the better I get at my job, the harder it is to explain school finance to other people.
What makes us all good SBOs is that we sweat the details. What makes us bad communicators is that we sweat the details. To effectively communicate about complicated subjects, such as school district budgets and school financing, you have to keep it super simple (KISS) — which is against our nature.