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Bringing People And Financial Operations Together
This year’s SAPPHIRENOW registration reached up to 20,000 on-site attendees, with another 200,000 on-line participants. The event brought together senior executives, corporate managers and line of...
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Thomson Reuters Helps Buy-Side Firms Manage Market Information
Thomson Reuters has launched a new tool to help buy-side firms make sense of the piles of data and information hitting their investment decision makers. Called Watchlist Pulse, it allows portfolio...
View ArticleAre You Ready To Reimagine Your Finance Operations?
The end of the year is behind us – and for many finance departments, this means annual closing processes are underway. How will your business roll up financial information supplied by business units...
View ArticleRecipe For Finance Innovation: Mixing Up The Right Ingredients
The opportunity of digitalization reaches enterprises of all sizes, allowing them to speed up the interaction with external stakeholders. The expectation of customers is to get an immediate response,...
View ArticleMeijer Stores Preserve That Local Flavor With Finance Transformation
Founded in 1934 in the midst of the great depression, Meijer is now a major retailer that operates 228 supercenters and grocery stores throughout Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and...
View ArticleIs Your Finance Department As Efficient As Your Competitors’?
CFOs in organizations of every size and shape are reporting on the need to boost efficiency. How does yours stack up? A quick quiz: • Are you losing opportunities for maximum savings? • Are high-volume...
View ArticleWill Your Business Stick Or Twist For Finance Software Modernization?
Like it or not, technology has forced a shift in the strategic role of the CFO in the boardroom. CFOs are now expected to deliver real-time and even forward-looking competitive insight for other...
View ArticleTop Priority For Surveyed Financial Executives: Improving Efficiency
Efficiency is the word on the lips of most finance executives, according to a survey commissioned by SAP and conducted by Forrester, an independent research group. The survey of 200 finance operations...
View ArticleHow Self-Service Access To A/R Data Helps Finance Teams Improve Cash Flow
Every business, particularly in today’s complex and volatile operating environment, is focused on enhancing performance. Finance organizations are increasingly looked upon to help the company set and...
View ArticleHow Deloitte And Carter’s Have Transformed Their Finance Functions
What do Deloitte and Carter’s have in common when it comes to finance? On the face of it, not very much. Deloitte, LLP is a multinational firm that provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk...
View ArticleTemplosion, Technology, And The Future Of Finance
Part 2 of 3. Read Part 1. What is templosion? How is it affecting finance? What role will artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and smart machines play in the future, and what impact will they have...
View ArticleThe “Thinner,” More Focused CFO
As CFOs, our role is undergoing unprecedented change. The legacy of our profession has traditionally been almost exclusively about process and financial control, with significant time spent reporting...
View Article3 Outdated Misconceptions About CFOs
There are a number of misconceptions about the CFO role, but the digital transformation has dramatically changed the types of skills CFOs must bring to their organizations. CFOs are now expected to...
View ArticleHow To Become A Digital-Economy CFO: Part 3, Efficiency
Part 3 of a Series. Read part 1, part 2, and part 4 Complexity is still a challenge for many finance organizations – complexity brought about by inefficient finance operations, conflicting stakeholder...
View ArticleUnlocking Economic Uncertainty: 3 Keys For CFOs To Navigate Market Volatility
The global economy can’t seem to shake out of its slump, driven by one uncertainty after another across a rotating cast of market factors. We are living in a prolonged era of economic and regulatory...
View ArticleHow to Become a Digital-Economy CFO: Part 4, Reimagine Business Performance
Part 4 of a Series. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 In today’s world, volatility is the “new normal.” CFOs must equip their businesses to respond quickly in an uncertain world. Today, too many members...
View ArticleTime For Finance To Face Strange Changes
In my last blog, The ‘Thinner,’ More Focused CFO, I talked about the significant changes in the profession over recent years, and the increasingly strategic responsibilities of today’s CFO. In this...
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A CFO’s View From APJ: ACCA Interviews SAP’s Richard McLean
Richard McLean FCCA, regional CFO at SAP Asia Pacific Japan (APJ), is not one who is averse to change. In fact, he embraces it. This is reflected in his decision to uproot from the UK 13 years ago to...
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Integrated Planning And Simulation: Delivering New Insights At High Speed
As businesses everywhere embark on their transformation journey, speed becomes critical for controlling. This put me in mind of an old story from Tom Peters’ book Liberation Management, circa 1993,...
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A Continuous Finance Experience
Part 4 in the Continuous Accounting Series. Continuous movement: Imagine the stroke of a tennis player, the movement of a ballerina, and the way a musician moves from one part of the of a composition...
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The Promise Of Digital Finance: A New Level Of Performance
World-class finance organizations outperform more typical peers on two important dimensions: They are more efficient and do their work faster at less cost, and they are more effective at delivering...
View ArticleOptimizing Disclosure Management For Capital Markets: Part 2
Part 2 in a 2-part series. Read Part 1. In our last blog, we outlined the importance of effective and efficient capital market communication for company growth, for convincing potential investors about...
View ArticleStandardize, Centralize, And Automate Your Corporate Close
Part 12 in the Continuous Accounting Series Corporate finance departments are acclimatizing to an environment of growth, mixed with uncertainty. For most enterprises, key growth measures are on the...
View ArticleLetting Go: Zen And The Art Of Finance Transformation
Part 2 in a series. Read Part 1. Being in control is a natural inclination for the CFO. As finance professionals, accuracy and consistency are programmed into our DNA. Thus, to ensure smooth financial...
View ArticleLeading CFOs Align With IT To Automate And Streamline Operations
CFOs today have a unique vantage point within their organizations. No longer are they merely financial controllers whose only responsibility is to manage the company’s balance sheets. Now, CFOs take an...
View ArticleStandardize, Centralize, And Automate Your Corporate Close: Step 3
Part 14 in the Continuous Accounting Series In the last part of our series on the consolidated corporate close, we touch on financial and management reporting. It’s hard to believe – or perhaps all too...
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