Usually you say goodbye before you leave, but sometimes you forget you're listening to

Motley Full Money.

I'm Ricky Mulvey.

Joining us now is Bill Barker.

Bill, good to see you.

Thanks for having me.

Big news today.

Tesla's chief financial officer Zach Kirkhorn.

Well, he stepped down from his role last Friday.

Kirkhorn is replaced by Veybov, Teneja.

Well, you find out a CFO is leaving before they step down, Bill.

Even if they are staying on throughout the end of the year, this is a little unusual.

It's a little unusual, but not so unusual that the market seems to find it terribly disconcerting.

You want CFOs to stick around and arrange an orderly transition and all that.

So suddenness of the announcement raises some questions, but behind the scenes there

don't seem to be big questions that are concerning the market players yet.

Or big questions that we may not know about from the outside.

I mean, for newer listeners, the way a CFO steps down from a company can be a big deal.

Why is this something that investors pay so much attention to?

But other situations when a CFO steps down abruptly with a little detail about why, then

you're going to have questions about whether there were any financial irregularities that

either the CFO was responsible for and is being pushed out or is aware of and no longer

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