White Paper Published By: CEB
Published Date: Sep 04, 2013
Analysis on the key challenges, developments, and innovations affecting corporate and business finance. This edition helps you to compare your cost and growth assumptions with peers, establish a finance-friendly corporate culture, develop critical guidance-based skills on your team, mobilize global cash balances, increase the effectiveness of investor targeting, and improve business analytics.
Case Study Published By: Verint
Published Date: Apr 18, 2013
The vision for Celent’s Model Bank research was to try to answer an apparently simple question: “What would it look like for a bank to do everything right with today’s technology?” Of course, the question is not nearly as simple as it appears. The terms “everything” and “right” will mean very different things to different banks depending on their size, the complexity of their operations and product sets, and their technological starting points. While there is no such thing as a “Model Bank”—every bank does some things well, and others not as well when it comes to technology—it is possible to conceive of a “Model Bank” through real world examples of effective usage of technology.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Feb 21, 2013
CFOs should consider “The Last Mile of Finance” as a target for cost control, process optimization, and risk reduction that can enable finance to better support the strategic goals of the organization.
Case Study Published By: Globoforce
Published Date: Aug 02, 2012
How do you pitch recognition to senior management? Download the guide now and use it to show executives what strategic recognition can do for your company's bottom line.
Employee recognition works. But how do you pitch it to your senior managers? Speak their language by talking about the cold, hard numbers. Show them the link between recognition and quantifiable business records.
This guide shows five ways strategic recognition impacts the bottom line - supported by industry studies and statistics.
Case Study Published By: Globoforce
Published Date: Aug 02, 2012
Employee engagement is one of the most important objectives for today's HR leaders. We know we need it. We know we want it. We know it boosts our bottom line. But what isn't always clear is what drives it, and how to get it. Connecting with employees effectively can be a mysterious puzzle at times. What is important to them? What would motivate them to work more productively? What makes them feel valued? There is, thankfully, a better way than tea leaves or crystal balls. Globoforce-the world leader in employee recognition-surveys fully-employed workers in the United States twice a year to answer those very questions. Our aim is to gain more insight into people's attitudes and perspectives on employee recognition, appreciation and engagement. By capturing the current mood of the U.S. workforce, we can examine broader trends in recognition and job satisfaction. The goal of this report is provide you with invaluable insights that can be used to craft strategies that will unify and engage your workforce and culture.
White Paper Published By: Marketo
Published Date: Jul 31, 2012
The Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Marketing Analytics shows marketing professionals how to talk the talk of C-level executives in terms of forecasting and reporting, and walk the walk to the revenue table by leveraging metrics that matter.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Jul 24, 2012
Detect and prevent fraud by finding subtle patterns and associations in your data. IBM SPSS predictive analytics solutions have proved to be very effective at helping tax collection agencies to maximize revenues by detecting non-compliance more efficiently and by focusing investigations on cases that are likely to yield the biggest tax adjustments.
White Paper Published By: Esker
Published Date: Apr 12, 2012
Think about the process in your company for a minute. How much time and money is wasted waiting for an invoice to arrive, then walking the document around to be coded, approved, and finally paid? Discover how a touchless invoice processing can help.
White Paper Published By: Esker
Published Date: Apr 12, 2012
This buyer's guide provides you with the key topics and the most important questions to ask an AP solution provider so that you can select the most appropriate AP solution to meet both your business and process needs.
White Paper Published By: Esker
Published Date: Apr 12, 2012
This paper illustrates that solutions exist today, both as traditional software and Software as a Service, with a proven track record of success in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing.
To drive revenue opportunities, improve productivity, and grow profits, services and project focused companies must streamline, automate and unify the financial and operational processes of services delivery.
If you need improved functionality and automation, tighter internal controls, and greater visibility, it may be time to switch to a new accounting system. How can you be sure?
White Paper Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Oct 19, 2011
Grounded in extensive research, Reinventing the CFO outlines seven critical roles--from streamlining redundant processes to regulating risk to identifying a few key measures--that CFOs must take on to transform the finance operation successfully. Challenging many of the finance field's accepted practices and systems, this bold book revolutionizes the role of financial managers and frees them to make smart, ethical, strategic decisions that add real value to the firm.
White Paper Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Oct 19, 2011
It's inefficient, ages too quickly, and is out of sync with the strategic plan. No wonder so many executives hate toiling over the annual budget. But, says Peter Horvath, don't look to the budget as the sole management system. Horvath and his associate Ralf Sauter describe six ways to fix budgeting, including integrating it with such systems as the Balanced Scorecard, so that it supports strategy execution in today's fast-changing environment.
White Paper Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Oct 19, 2011
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading.
White Paper Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Oct 19, 2011
Despite a number of compelling reasons to move away from annual plans and budgets, many CFOs are reluctant to make the change. They fail to recognize that there are alternative (and less dysfunctional) ways of driving performance improvement and making managers accountable for performance. CFOs need to implement systems that provide managers at every level with the capability to make fast, well-informed decisions. They need to replace annual planning cycles with more regular business reviews that enable managers to see trends, patterns, and "breaks in the curve" long before the competition.
White Paper Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Oct 19, 2011
Surveys show that most CFOs want to upgrade their role from accounting specialists to strategic or business partners. But few CFOs have actually made the change, primarily because they have neither the time nor the necessary capabilities within the current finance team. But for those who do make the change, the rewards are tangible. This chapter lays out a number of important steps that the CFO and the finance team need to take to position themselves as trusted and valued business partners within the organization.
White Paper Published By: Adaptive Planning
Published Date: Oct 19, 2011
Budgeting can cause stress and conflict, eating up lots of hours. But a good budget can be the difference between financial success and insolvency. In this chapter, you'll learn about the many types of budgets that serve different purposes. You'll also learn how to determine which type most effectively helps you meet your business goals.
Sarah Cooke 
Don Shoultz 
Marc Rapport 
