World-class finance organisations are doing more with less – and they have the data to back it up. They spend 42% less and have about half the staff of their lower-performing peers, according to new research from The Hackett Group. This ability to be effective and lean at the same time enables top finance functions…
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Rolling-Forecasts
Podcast: Rolling-Forecasts Steve Player, CPA, CGMA, the programme director for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table in North America, offers tips on how companies and finance professionals can spend less time looking to the past and more time planning for the future using rolling forecasts. Podcast Steve Player: Rolling forecasts By CGMA Magazine http://cgmamagazine.podomatic.com/entry/2014-12-08T12_07_50-08_00
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Accountants as Navigators
Accountants as Navigators—Guiding Your Organization from Where It Is to Where It Wants to Be Never before has the global business environment been more challenging. In the first part of the Gateway’s Spotlight on Professional Accountants series, Charles Tilley, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), discusses how professional accountants help businesses…
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Why CFOs are hiring more consultants
Companies count on CFOs not only to be experts on financial performance but also to have oversight in matters such as risk, compliance, HR, and IT. Combine an expanding role with the amount and pace of change in business, and it’s enough to make even the most informed, tech-savvy head spin. Whether it’s for new…
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