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Cfo vs Controller - What's the difference?

cfo | controller |

As an initialism cfo

is chief financial officer.

As a noun controller is

one who controls something.

cfo

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • chief financial officer

    • Related terms

    * CCO * CEO * CIO * CSO * CTO

    Anagrams

    * *

    controller

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who controls something.
  • * (rfdate) (Dryden)
    • The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
  • (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
  • (computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
  • (nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.

    • Synonyms

    * administrator * foreman * chief, head, head man * comptroller * overseer * organizer * superintendent * supervisor

    Derived terms

    * memory controller * microcontroller

    Related terms

    * control theory