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What’s Holding Back Integrated Business Planning?
A new research paper, ‘Trends in Integrated Business Planning – Using Technology and Information To Create a More Effective Process’ by Ventana Research seems to suggest that currently companies rarely...
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Transfer Pricing Based On ABC Reduces The Likelihood Of Tax Audits
Other than some noticeable exceptions, such as Norway, the OECD statistics show that corporation tax has been steadily falling for decades and now typically stands at between 5-10% of a country’s total...
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Is Travel Management The Express Elevator To The Cloud For The CFO?
Although it’s still a young company having been formed in 2006, Chicago-based Aasonn is one of the leading cloud consultancies in the world with over 1400 customers in 30 countries. With its business...
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What Lies Within – A Cautionary Tale Of Fraud Prevention
Fraud Prevention From The Inside Out It’s a worrying thought, but the biggest threat to your business may not come from external forces such as low-wage competitors in emerging markets, political and...
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What The Tour de France Teaches Us About Good Performance Management
The Tour de France and Performance Management Many folk in the UK are not too concerned about the dismal weather we are being subjected to at the moment and are revelling in what might just turn out to...
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KPMG Survey Shows Risk Management Is Still An Uphill Struggle
The struggle to operationalize risk management After a well-earned rest day yesterday, the Tour de France kicked off again today with Chris Froome of Team Sky still with a 1’25” lead over his nearest...
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Why Self-Service Visualization Makes Sense for Finance
In my experience of working alongside them, management accountants and indeed others working in analytical roles tend to find working with data curiously rewarding: the process of getting the numbers...
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It’s Never Been Easier For Finance to Ramp Up Its Analytics Capability
Now that business intelligence tools have become easier and more intuitive to use and sophisticated data mining and data visualization can be purchased in the cloud without having to jump over CAPEX...
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Business Partners Needed; Finance Needs More Talent
Before he dropped out of his economics degree at the University of Johannesburg to become a professional road cyclist, this year’s Tour de France winner, Chris Froome, was on a path that he says would...
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Is CFO Remuneration Fully Aligned With Their Changing Role?
With stock markets around the globe making a remarkable recover in recent months, any CFO with stock options must be feeling pretty good about life, especially if the time to vest is coming up any time...
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A lawyer friend was saying that he often wondered how law ever gained the lofty status of being classed as a ‘profession’. Yes, they have to know case law to know how to make their pitch, but most are...
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10 Questions That Can Help When Recruiting Tomorrow’s Finance Team
How can you tell when a financial analyst is an extrovert? – Answer; When you engage them in conversation, they always look at your shoes rather than their own! Seriously though, some of the most...
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What CFOs Don’t Know: Top Cloud Myths
Many companies have embraced cloud technology for everything from human resources to customer relationship management, yet the finance department isn’t jumping on board. What’s holding them back and...
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The Role of Finance May Be Changing, But the Route to the Top Remains the Same
You can only join The 100 Group if you hold or have held the position of CFO in a UK company that is or was listed in the FTSE 100 – and if they invite you. The members of this organization are the...
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Is the Balanced Scorecard Really a Top 5 Management Tool?
Growing revenue, improving profitability and reducing cost come out as the most important priorities of the 1208 respondents that took part in Bain & Company’s 14th Management Tools and Trends...
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What Makes Budgeting More Efficient – and What Doesn’t
Despite continuing investment in planning and budgeting system, a new piece of research titled ‘Increasing Budget and Forecast Process Productivity’ from the Corporate Executive Board suggests that 90%...
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‘”Real” Decision Making in the “Real-Time” Enterprise
Data is the new oil and Big Data is the new prospecting ground. In its raw state, it’s crude and needs refining through analysis, but the promise is that if you get it right, you’ll hit pay dirt with...
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Why Your Place in the Fast Close Rankings Matters
Two new reports ranking the speed of closing of the world’s largest listed companies have just been published – Close Cycle Rankings 2013 from BPM International and the Close Cycle Report 2013 from PWC...
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Investing to Close the Gap in Performance Management
With finance still relentlessly seeking further efficiencies and desperate for better insight to their peers in the business, it’s timely the a report commissioned by consulting organization PWC titled...
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Product Profitability Comes Into Its Own
Much is being made of the facts that house prices here in the UK are growing at again at 5% and economy has returned to growth with GDP increasing 0.7% in the last year. Well with signals like these –...
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