The role of financial analysts and their impact on improvements in organizational growth and productivity is explained by Mary Driscoll, APQC's finance subject matter expert.
An outsourcing agreement is deemed successful if the expected benefits are harvested and the organization’s stakeholders recognize that the deal is delivering these benefits. Achieving these two objectives is dependent on the effectiveness of the client team managing the agreement. A team that is too large or too small, or that lacks the required skills or has the wrong mandate, will jeopardize ...
Managing an accounting firm is first and foremost about managing a business. Like any business, the first obligation is to grow and prosper so in turn the firm can serve clients, provide jobs for staff, and generate financial rewards for own- ers. Unfortunately, many firms have traditionally engaged in practices that don’t maximize growth and prosperity. One key to growth is the embrace of ...
Tom Bohn is the CEO and executive director of the International Association of Payment Professionals (IAPP). In this interview, he explains why AP professionals are poised to play a more strategic role within the finance function.
Tom Bohn argues that a sea-change is now underway in AP. For starters, he says it is imperative to consolidate AP and AR into a financial shared services structure. ...
Supply chain management is, by its very nature, a multi-disciplinary business process that touches all operational functions in a manufacturing organization. Clearly, at the heart of the supply chain are both the prediction of future customer demand, and the satisfaction of the customer demand in a profitable manner. In doing so, the supply chain touches Engineering, Finance, Logistics, ...
Finding and producing oil and gas in the most efficient, reliable and affordable way possible is the core mission of the upstream oil and gas industry. The challenge is to fulfill this mission in an intensely volatile market environment-one marked by unpredictable price fluctuations, costly and onerous regulations, intense competition, mergers and acquisitions, and ongoing pressure to address ...
The word “jian” (“jee'-on”) has its roots in the martial arts and means "the master of every art". We chose this unusual name because it reflects our goals as well as the goals of many of our customers. JIAN is a contemporary American software company focused on applying modern techniques to the art of building businesses. We specialize in providing expert knowledge and effective, timesaving ...
Here we highlight the need to recognize problematic software accounting methods; minimizing errors in account balance integrity, ledgers and sub ledgers; and reducing the need for expensive rectification, thus avoiding serious legal ramifications.
Integrated Project Management and Accounting (PMA) technologies can be a catalyst for business transformation while delivering a powerful return on investment (ROI). Rather than describing the discrete elements of a PMA solution, the emphasis herein will be on the interaction between PMA advocates and management decision makers—and how they ultimately joined forces to accelerate project and ...
Gain compelling insights from our interview with Jean Cunningham, former CFO and author of a pioneering book on the trend toward lean accounting. Learn why and how the push for high quality standards and practices on the shop floor are prompting finance and accounting executives to rethink their traditional cost accounting policies.
Learn about SaaS as well as its advantages and disadvantages. This webinar will compare hosted and on-premises deployment methods and describe Blue Link's ...
Take a look at the latest version of Blue Link Elite ERP software solution for small to medium-sized businesses. An integrated accounting, business and ...
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