As this year’s CFO of the Year honorees illustrate, a company’s top financial leader is often tasked with making hard decisions to ensure business growth and sustainability. It’s a daunting challenge that takes a delicate balance of nuts-and-bolts accounting knowledge, leadership skills and the vision to help set long-range goals. And almost without exception, taking a struggling company that’s operating in the red and making it profitable is never easy, as if often requires layoffs and other…