At the beginning of the establishment of NB Electric, Xiong Yongwang, the first batch of Xiong Yongwang to enter the company, lived in the dormitory of the old factory for more than half a year.

I was too familiar with the proprietress and briefly introduced the situation of the NB laboratory, and after answering a few questions from the students, I said hello to Vice Dean Zhou, and caught up with Zhang Hui and Chen Changhe, who had walked to the school gate and were about to get on the bus to return to the villa.

"Mrs. Liu, why are you here?"

"Come with my brother and listen, Dr. Xiong, how did you chase it out." Zhang Huiyan smiled, thinking that he had just talked for a long time, and he didn't even drink saliva, and took out a bottle of mineral water from the car.

Xiong Yongwang glanced at Chen Changhe, who was standing next to the co-pilot, and asked curiously, "Your brother?" ”

is both a younger brother and a future brother-in-law, the relationship is too complicated, Zhang Hui didn't know where to start, so she simply smiled: "My cousin, just came from my hometown in Jiangnan, by the way, how did you come over." ”

The proprietress is still so approachable, Xiong Yongwang smiled: "I came by taxi, they want to send it, I don't think it's troublesome." ”

"Then get in the car, I'll send you."

"Mrs. Liu, leave me alone, I'll take a taxi to the Linhai Hotel to meet Mr. Yan, and then go back to Hong Kong together after his training."

How could Zhang Hui miss this opportunity for Chen Changhe to have close contact with Dr. Liude, and opened the back seat door: "Dr. Xiong, don't be polite to me, it's not an outsider, and we are just going to Linhai Hotel." ”

Xiong Yongwang will be suspicious: "Really go?" ”

"My cousin is training there, Wu Xiaolian, the cashier of the electronics division, you know."

"Manager Wu's cousin?"

"yes. I didn't expect you to remember. ”

Since by the way. Xiong Yongwang is not hypocritical. Sitting in the car, she sighed with emotion: "In order to earn domestic sales share for the electronics division, she and her brother were excited to us at that time, and they couldn't forget it." Time flies, and now that I think about it, it feels like it happened yesterday. ”

Zhang Huile was happy, and while starting the engine, he smiled through the rearview mirror and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"You don't care about the company, of course you don't know. I'm not afraid of your jokes, we were a little nervous at the time. After all, as long as the tape recorder can be produced, there is no need to worry about sales in China. And the switch and socket panel has just begun, there are no customers to customers, there are no channels to channels, and there is no bottom in my heart. ”

When I was in junior high school, I was already starting a business.

Thinking that at dinner the day before yesterday, Wu Xiaozhu and Wu Xiaojun talked about their brothers and sisters applying for special zone permits, and Chen Changhe's heart suddenly became very uncomfortable, feeling like a soft rice eater.

Where did Zhang Hui know what he was thinking. Holding on to the steering wheel, he asked casually, "Dr. Xiong, is it difficult to study for a doctorate in the NB laboratory?" ”

The company's business is said to be ignored. For a few years, this is not something that everyone can do. After all, she is not only the wife of the chairman of the board of directors, but also the third largest shareholder of NB Electric Group.

Theoretically, NB Electric Group has little to do with NB Laboratory, and there is also a business connection. However, as a member of the first phase of NB Electric's R&D Center and a returnee who NB Electric focuses on training, Xiong Yongwang never thinks that he is really an outsider.

"It's really difficult, because the lab trains not only PhD students, but researchers. The goal of training is to train young people to be able to work independently, and it is necessary to be innovative and thorough. Even the brightest students have to work hard to meet the requirements for graduating from the lab.

In addition, we focus more on the application of technology, such as the processing technology of some products as a doctoral topic, and this kind of seemingly traditional can not be in the traditional subject, it is impossible to be a doctoral topic in China. But we also value whether students have ideas. As long as there are good ideas and innovations, as long as they are within the framework of the content of the laboratory research, research funding is not a problem. ”

The NB Lab has learned a lot from the experience of German research institutions, and thinking that they have all obtained PhDs, Zhang Hui couldn't help asking: "Dr. Xiong, you have studied hard in Germany?" ”

"It's not hard, but it's not easy."

Xiong Yongwang took off his glasses, pinched the bridge of his sour nose, and said lightly: "There are too many things to learn, and I haven't learned German before, so everything is equivalent to starting all over again." Fortunately, some repetitive tasks are completed by experimenters, and as long as we learn and master the operating instruments, we can have more time to read the literature, think, communicate and discuss. ”

Studying abroad is the second option given by the future father-in-law, considering that the road of the NB laboratory is too difficult, Chen Changhe couldn't help but ask: "Dr. Xiong, do graduate students in Germany want to write a thesis?" ”

"Of course, but the evaluation criteria are not published in which academic journal, but whether the supervisor is satisfied, which is very different from China, the so-called slow work is skillful, although the graduation may not publish a lot of high-end articles, but the postdoctoral training under this mechanism is full of stamina, and there are many achievements in the near future."

He and his cousin had just confirmed their relationship, and Zhang Hui didn't want him to be like his younger brother and sister Zhang Lin, who would be out for a few years, and asked: "Dr. Xiong, let me ask a small question, since it is ultimately other universities that award degrees, when admitting students, will they be admitted according to the requirements of the universities that will get degrees in the future?" ”

Xiong Yongwang shook his head and smiled: "The university only provides student status, and in the future, it will only award degrees. At the same time, the requirements of the laboratory are relatively significantly higher than those of the university, so the admission of students should be based on the standards of the laboratory, not the university standards. ”

"Is this a cooperative training?"

"The right to recruit students is in the laboratory, and the training is in charge of the laboratory, not counting exactly. What's more, we have a lot of options when it comes to awarding degrees, like some members of the 'carbon nanotubes' team, if HKU and CUHK don't award degrees, other universities will be willing to award them. ”

This is the same as a person who has a career, and everyone comes to recognize their relatives.

Zhang Hui understood, pondered for a moment, and then asked: "Why does every student have to go abroad for exchanges, isn't there 8 universities in Hong Kong?" ”

"Because in this way, not only can the cooperation between laboratories and other research institutions be strengthened. It can also promote cooperation and communication between laboratory researchers and personnel from other research institutions. At the same time, it can carry out postdoctoral research for students in the future. and collaborative research to create opportunities......"

Talk about it. Time flies, and I arrived at the Linhai Hotel in Longkou Industrial Zone in a while.

As soon as the training ended, Yan Xiushi, the group's chief financial officer, was sitting in the audience to communicate with his colleagues. As a key member of the Group's new management team, he is well aware that standardizing the Group's finances is a top priority in all the immediate tasks.

The finances of Chinese companies are a big problem.

Due to political reasons, the mainland was financially subordinate to the Soviet Union, and the subjects were divided into two categories: "appropriation of funds" and "source of funds". There are only 17 accounting accounts, and the "increase and decrease bookkeeping" method is used for bookkeeping.

This kind of bookkeeping invented by "industrious and intelligent working people" is the most primitive and simplest bookkeeping method invented by mankind after the emergence of double-entry bookkeeping, which realizes Lenin's wish that everyone can be an accountant and is more in line with Mao Zdong's ideal that everyone can participate in management.

As for the internationally accepted method of accounting for loans and loans, it has not only been thoroughly criticized as an asset accounting method, but has also been accused of making it incomprehensible to the cadres and the masses, and has even criticized the capitalist accounting theory through a series of documents and rules and regulations, emphasizing that different accounting techniques have their own class nature, and only by adding or decreasing accounting can the accounting method fully reflect the scientific nature and superiority of socialist accounting.

Accounting systems cannot be created in a vacuum. It is the product of integration with the economic system and the legal system.

Although after the reform and opening up, the Bank of China took the lead in reverting to the use of the loan bookkeeping method. But it has not been comprehensively promoted, and it has only completed the integration of the name, and it still has strong Chinese characteristics - to a large extent, it is only bookkeeping, and it is an accounting without soul and spirit.

Liu Siwei, chairman of the board of directors, is an accountant, so the company implemented the loan accounting method at the beginning of its establishment, and even became a teacher for nearly half a month, cultivating the first batch of financial executives, including Wang Bingcun, former financial director of NB Electric, and You Ruiqin, manager of the audit and supervision department.

However, in Yan Xiushi's view, this is far from enough, in order to let the financial personnel present understand what is the soul and spirit of accounting, I used a little time after the training to talk about some personal feelings.

"First of all, before you start this job, ask yourself, are you willing to work with numbers? I think many people will answer that they don't like it very much, but the financial job seems to be relatively stable, and it is relatively not difficult to find, so I chose the finance industry. I think this is the reason, but I need to understand that it is difficult to achieve something in a job that you don't like.

Perhaps, some people want to do a financial career for a while and have the opportunity to do something they love again. However, the characteristics of financial people determine that they have been in this business for a long time, so people will become cautious and somewhat conservative. Of course, not all people are like this, but most of them will become like this consciously or unconsciously. The so-called men are afraid of getting into the wrong industry, and I think you should think about it. ”

He is the most senior executive of the group, having served as the chief financial officer of three Fortune 500 companies, and in order to poach him from the United States, the group's chief executive Wu Jinhua and vice president Xu Sangcheng have made six trips to New York.

Zhang Hui didn't want to disturb his work, so she pulled over a chair and sat behind Wu Xiaolian and other female colleagues.

Like Principal Gao, he went to the United States from Taiwan and spoke Chinese very well, and while looking around at everyone, he said step by step: "If you really like financial work, then you also need to choose where to develop in financial work itself." Generally, after the scale of the finance department reaches a certain level, it will be divided into five areas, namely: accounting department, tax department, treasury department, financial analysis department and internal control department.

Different departments have their own characteristics, and it is difficult to say which is better or worse, so choose according to your own personality. Of course, not every enterprise has such a detailed division of labor, but these functions are necessary for a complete financial system, and don't think that financial work is simple accounting work.

Secondly, the entry threshold for finance is not high, and many people can engage in it. For example, those who study science and engineering and economics will basically have no problem handling simple business after about half a year of training, and even better than those who study finance. That's why I often jokingly tell my former colleagues: you have to have a sense of crisis, and now there are more people who can do finance than sweep the streets. ”

Approachable, without a bit of a shackle, he looks more like a college professor. And it's humorous. It always arouses everyone's interest. Take the boring financial knowledge. It's very interesting to talk about it in simple terms. Just like during the training just now, everyone immediately burst into laughter.

"However, it is very difficult to become a high-level talent in this industry, very difficult!"

Yan Xiu turned his words around and said very seriously: "First of all, as I said just now, if you don't have a good sense of numbers, then you will never reach the realm of a financial master. The first boss in my career was Taiwanese. Three other colleagues and I gave him a report of more than 50 pages in five days.

But after less than 20 minutes of watching, he keenly pointed out the contradictions and inconsistencies between many of the data. During this time, he hardly used a calculator, and judged it by his brain and feelings, which shows that he belongs to the kind of person who has numbers in his blood. ”

Many people who are engaged in finance have encountered this situation, and a colleague raised his hand and said: "Mr. Yan, the chairman also has numbers in his blood, although he rarely comes to Chinese companies now, but every time he sees the accounts, he can find this or that problem." ”

"The chairman is an accountant. He is professionally trained and experienced. This is not surprising. ”

Yan Xiushi smiled and continued: "Secondly, financial work is a job with less sense of achievement, and many financial people work overtime every day, but if someone asks you what you have done, you will feel difficult to answer. Because what you say, others may not understand and understand.

The salesperson can say, how many things I have sold this month; The production staff said, how much I overdone; The quality inspectors can say how much the defective rate has been reduced; But what about us, saying that the report was completed smoothly? No tax problems this month? Therefore, doing this work requires concentration, and even more importantly, it needs to endure loneliness. ”

is worthy of being a financial expert, and in a few words, it went to everyone's hearts, and even Chen Changhe, who doesn't understand finance, thinks it is very reasonable.

"Again, the pressure of financial work is very high. This pressure comes from the settlement period, from the depth of analysis, and from being on the edge of the policy. There is a saying that late fairness is unfair, and again, late financial statements are meaningless. This is the reason why many of us work overtime every day, if you take a month to get the last month's report out, or submit the analysis report, although it is very detailed and accurate, but it will not help the business in any way!

I believe you have noticed that many companies have the phrase "can withstand work pressure" in the recruitment advertisements for financial personnel, which shows that the pressure on financial personnel is not universal. Financial analysis is the same, because there are no certain rules and standards for financial analysis, so many people will have different opinions on the analysis you make, and even point fingers at you. ”

Yan Xiushi took a sip of mineral water and continued: "These will make you feel very depressed. At the same time, finance is very policy-oriented, you have to abide by accounting standards, and you must also abide by tax laws. Although you have a high standard, the law, especially the various documents and regulations in the mainland, are interpreted by law enforcement officers.

So no matter how careful you are, you're bound to make mistakes or be on the verge of making mistakes. No matter how good you usually behave, if you let the law enforcement authorities fine, then your boss's face will definitely be very ugly. If you don't want your boss to embarrass you, then you have to fight with a bunch of bureaucrats in taxation, industry and commerce, foreign exchange, and customs, which is also very painful for many people! ”

I am not afraid of pain, but I am afraid that no one can understand after the pain.

The group's chief financial officer can be so reassuring, and everyone is very moved, after all, they have all suffered some grievances before.

Although business skills are still a long way from hope, Yan Xiushi is still very satisfied with everyone's performance, and while signaling the male colleague who always puts his hand in his pocket to smoke, he continued: "Thirdly, finance requires lifelong learning. Of course, there seems to be no line of business that does not need to be learned, but the mainland is now in the process of improving various economic laws and regulations, so various economic policy changes are very frequent, and if you do not update them in time, then you will not be able to keep up with the times.

For example, if you publish a new accounting standard, this alone will be enough for you to learn for a while. In addition, many of the various tax and foreign exchange laws in the mainland are stipulated in the form of 'notices', 'replies' and 'XX letters', which are very logical and coherent, and the replies of law enforcement officers vary from person to person.

Therefore, you have to understand yourself thoroughly before you can justify yourself when you are inexplicably buttoned by someone. The scariest thing about mainland law enforcement is that they never give you any policy advice in writing, so if you are vague, you may lose a lot of money to the company. ”

The first time I came to China, I knew the domestic laws and regulations so clearly, and I obviously did my homework. This eloquent group chief financial officer made Zhang Hui, who had worked in finance for a period of time, very admirable.

"As we all know, researchers at NB Lab are using Matrix Lab software for R&D, which is a very good software that can greatly improve R&D efficiency; The engineers of NB Electrical are using EPLAN, the world's best electrical computer-aided design software, to design high and low voltage complete sets of equipment;

So for us, the application of financial software is the general trend. If your mind and brain don't keep up with it, you will feel helpless in front of advanced software. Because software is not simply to replace the work at hand, but contains a lot of advanced management concepts and internal control mechanisms. This is the reason why so many Hong Kong companies have adopted ERP and failed in it. ”

This is an important work that the group must implement this year, Yan Xiushi will not miss any opportunity to mobilize, looking at the look of everyone, solemnly said: "If the company's philosophy is not updated in time, the determination to change is not so strong, then the ERP software is almost a burden." Especially for a complex ERP software like SAP, it is not possible for ordinary enterprises to use it. At first, I believe that it will be very painful for everyone, but as long as you can hold on for a year, you will feel that this thing is so good, and you can't even do without it. ”

I had heard of the Matrix Lab software used in NB Lab and EPLAN software used in NB Electrical. But because the price was too expensive, it was not imported from abroad, so that there was no chance to even see the demonstration.

In order to facilitate work, the Hong Kong headquarters has installed a set of state-of-the-art video and telephone conferencing systems, and now it has to adopt the best financial management software in the world. Use the best for everything, Chen Changhe was secretly frightened, and he was stunned for a while and couldn't come to his senses. (To be continued......)