Unfortunately, many business owners actually think the same as the CFO. There are still many company treat source code as their sole intellectual property, this is a misunderstood concept by the non-technical business owner.
A software company can still function without all other roles (Sales, Admin, Finance and etc.), but they cannot call themselves a software company if they do not have any software programmer. Hence, I think it is fair to think that software programmer is the asset of any software company. The source code is a side effect or by product.
If you ask any business owner, would you like your business assets to increase in value, or decrease? I am sure they will look at you as if you must be really silly to even ask such question. However, if you ask them again, do they have any process in place to make sure their software programmer attending training, or even allow to attend any skill enhancement program; they probably will say no. Is this not weird? I have seen most company have the process that their software programmer needs an "approval" to attend training, let alone having hours set aside every week to perform self-study. Why would you create a process to prevent your assets increase in value? Do you think like the CFO in the quote above?
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