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Up to the minute and accurate information on revenue, cash flow and profitability are required to make effective decisions rapidly, but what if your current accounting system can't keep up?

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.

Up to the minute and accurate information on revenue, cash flow and profitability are required to make effective decisions rapidly, but what if your current accounting system can't keep up?

This whitepaper unveils research that shows how banks are moving beyond organization silos, infrastructure complexities and other constraints -- toward an operation focused on the client.

This paper acts as a well-qualified resource to support the validity of how outsourcing key HR functions can produce positive business results.

This white paper provides valuable insight on how to build an HR strategy that produces results in any economy.

Read this white paper to learn about 10 principles to follow in order to build an effective human capital plan for your organization.

Download this white paper to understand how these changes create a need for new processes and systems to achieve compliance and drive the need for new and broader skills within financial and real estate personnel.

For many companies in the U.S., Europe and many other countries, the pending changes to real estate and equipment lease accounting will result in a multi-billion dollar impact on the company balance sheet. These changes will create a host of ancillary effects beyond compliance that finance and real estate executives and professionals will need to address. Download this on-demand webcast to learn more.

For many companies, facilities operations and management represent a significant business cost. Thinking of fixed assets as a source of economic advantage allows companies to optimize their processes and resource use to simultaneously reduce environmental impacts and lower cost.

Read how IBM Maximo provides a single work and asset management platform that enables operations to quickly see recurring issues, automate escalation and communication, and maintain comprehensive asset histories for governance requirements.

This high-level Flash video provides an overview of how the IBM Smarter Planet campaign can help improve facilities management. By using IBM Maximo Asset Management, facilities managers are enabled to create smart buildings that reduce overall energy use and are operationally efficient.

Jack Porco from William Beaumont Hospital and Mike Stephens from Atkins give an overview of their use of IBM Maximo Asset Management for facilities management and how it helped them run their buildings... smarter.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Improve your company performance and make finance more productive with Intacct's award-winning and AICPA preferred provider of cloud based accounting software.

By embracing new-breed financial software solutions, organizations of all sizes are achieving and enjoying the unprecedented flexibility of anytime/anywhere instant-access to financial data, reports, transactions, and analysis.

Guidant Financial Group's 401(k) Small Business Financing plan allows you to invest IRA and 401k funds into a business or franchise. No early distribution taxes or fees.

Paying in US dollars may not be the best option. Learn how you can save 2-10% when negotiating prices in your foreign supplier's local currency.

Learn currency risk management strategies that can help your business survive and thrive in China and other international markets. This 45 minute Webinar is a must-see if you are business leader whose organization is impacted by China's economy.