Should we all be thinking effort to close rather than time to close?
Companies pay specific attention to their time-to-close, and reducing this has been a key financial objective for years. However, is…
New Gartner IT Market Clock for Financial Management Applications
Gartner recently published the latest IT Market Clock for Financial Management Applications 2014 and highlighted a new category of software…
IT Priorities are Shifting
A global survey from McKinsey, “IT Under Pressure” by Naufal Kahn and Johnson Sikes, recognizes IT’s strategic importance but also…
Responding to Geo-political Risk
Recent events in the Ukraine and its far-reaching political impacts remind us once again that global volatility and uncertainty are…
Do audit committees need access to systems of internal control?
Audit committees are a strong feature of the governance landscape. While all directors have a duty to act in the…
What can we learn from Global Risk?
January 2014’s gathering of policymakers, politicians and business leaders at the Davos World Economic Forum provided a sombre assessment of…
Top Performers Take Ownership of the Record to Report Process
In recent years many surveys have examined the R2R (Record to Report) process and have highlighted the uncomfortable truth that…
CFOs are turning to the cloud
A recent survey “Empowering Modern Finance” illustrates that CFOs are looking to the cloud to modernize finance. The study, carried…
Mandatory Rotation of Auditors is In the Cards
Just when you thought that your auditors understood your business and could find their way around your systems, the audit…
Year-end Close… THERE’S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY!
Year-end Close is well behind us now but…There’s got to be a better way! For many, the financial close process…