This Week's Features
Companies are leveraging technology to automate processes, but finding new employees with the skills necessary to become productive immediately is emerging as an alarming issue, says a new report.
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"Super-regional" motor freight carrier Old Dominion shows how finance and IT teams can work together to solve a tactical risk of burgeoning process costs and a strategic risk of irritating customers.
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Though shared services has become a widespread business strategy, executives can still leverage a competitive advantage by looking beyond the obvious. According to an exclusive feature from Deloitte, tax and internal control represent two areas ripe for shared services potential.
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Corporate Finance
The ability to respond to change is now more important than the ability to plan. Planning software that has built-in project management features can open new windows of opportunity because it explicitly manages events that have time dependencies and aggregates individual investment project totals. Both of these capabilities make it easier to adapt to changing circumstances and do a better job of allocating a corporation's limited capital resources.
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Budgeting
Is budgeting worth the effort? The annual budget process can take six months or more to develop and finalize (following multiple executive tweaks and revisions), and it can be obsolete just a few months after it is published. The Beyond Budgeting Round Table provides an alternative.
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Human Resources
Studies suggest alarming funding shortfalls, while employees continue to struggle to understand their pension benefits.
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Governance, Risk and Compliance
Ben Tomhave, principal consultant at LockPath, explains why data security concerns should be addressed in governance, risk management, and compliance programs before leaping into the cloud.
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Tax
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter is pushing a bill that would close some innovative tax loopholes, including "Reverse Morris Trust" transactions which allow companies to dispose of unwanted assets while avoiding taxes on any gains from the assets.
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Software and Systems
McKinsey researchers have identified five broad ways in which large data sets can create value.
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Upcoming Webinars
More than ever, finance organizations need new tools and disciplines that will transform their forecasting process into a dynamic, reliable system that helps identify performance gaps with enough lead time to assess alternatives quickly, and enables effective decision-making. On Oct. 26 join The Hackett Group and IBM industry experts to learn what leaders are doing to improve forecasting, how to overcome barriers to change, and how to automate and sustain a renewed forecasting process. Don't miss this webinar if you aim to anticipate and shape business outcomes more effectively.
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Finance departments continue to be undermined by many of the same problems: budgets are not aligned with strategy, financial reporting processes are slow and complex, and key business information is not available quickly enough to decision-makers. In this Nov. 3 webcast, you will learn how companies can quickly expand beyond historic data gathering and traditional analysis to incorporate a more thorough understanding of what factors truly drive performance.
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