Dependent VariablesThe first dependent variable is CFO compensation. We obtain CFO compensation data from Capital IQ People Intelligence and MorningStar Historical Governance and measure CFO compensation as the natural logarithm of the CFO’s total compensation, including salary, bonus, options granted, restricted stock, and other pay. The second dependent variable is CFO director. As we will discuss later, we use event history analysis to examine the likelihood that a CFO becomes a director on the focal firm’s board. The variable of CFO director receives a value of “1” in the year when a CFO becomes a board member of the focal firm and “0” otherwise. All the observations after a CFO becomes a board member of the focal firm are excluded in the event history analysis.