There are a lot of resources available for people who want to start a small business. From business plans to funding websites to guides on entrepreneurship, the available pool of information on starting up and growing a business is huge.
It may not be much, but at least it’s something: The number of optimistic CFOs now outnumber the pessimists (though just barely), at least when it comes to the state of the U.S. economy. In a recent survey …
“What if golfers used something like GAAP to keep their scores?”. As all great humor is based on reality, this is a funny way of pointing out some of the weaknesses in US GAAP. It’s main contention is that GAAP reporting doesn’t provide the real information that investors need to truly reflect the value of a company, a view that many would agree with.
Finance teams are just as likely to be involved in such areas as IT development, cyber-security and strategic business planning as they are in more traditional areas, such as accounting and financial reporting.
…This is when the “if you don’t tell us” stuff comes in – where the service provider may suggest to the accountant or outsourcer that they can simply login as the client and nobody would be the wiser. I’ll fess up and say I have even entertained this idea with clients a few times but always shy away from discussing it in-depth. While it is basically true that the service provider doesn’t generally know which exact human being is sitting at the other end of that remote desktop connection, that doesn’t mean that it is okay to leverage it into an abuse of services or licensing.
New research on Critical Capabilities for Corporate Performance Management Suites evaluates 12 vendors across 9 critical capabilities in CPM.
I continue to get mixed signals regarding how advanced CFOs are with their journey to become the “strategic advisor” that is so frequently mentioned in finance and accounting magazines and consulting firm’s centers of excellence (CoE) websites. There are countless articles…
When my son was 7 he very badly wanted a Transformers action figure, Optimus Prime, for his birthday. We, of course, bought it for him and watched with anticipation as he opened it and went to transform Optimus into a truck…
Mobile solutions are helping companies expand and accelerate EPM advancement, but, as Sussman cautions, “without doing the hard work up front of rethinking the process, they are putting themselves at risk of actually seeing any value from that investment in the project.”
According to a recent article in the July 2014 issue of CFO magazine, CEB Managing Director Eisha Armstrong noted, “Finance transformation shouldn’t be a project; it should be the way of doing finance.”