605: When Finance Sings a New Tune | John Cappadona, CFO, School of Rock
Unlike the music artists and instructors recruited by School of Rock to provide music lessons at its 270 locations around the globe, John Cappadona was first hired by the firm to provide a crash course in accounting.
“The day I joined, my controller and I walked through the door together not knowing anything,” explains Cappadona, who stepped into the CFO role at School of Rock shortly after its CEO, Rob Price, moved the music lesson provider’s headquarters to the Boston area.
Says Cappadona: “For the first couple of months, it took us almost 25 days to close the books—and we needed to shorten…
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