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Table of Contents:
1 From Complexity to Simplicity 1 What Issues are Today’s CFOs Grappling With? 6 Best Practices in Finance: What’s Next? 12 The New Finance Value Proposition 16 Integration: What it Means for You as CFO 20 CFO Checklist 25 2 Leveraging your ERP Investment 27 What does Integration Mean for the CFO? 32 Unravelling System Spaghetti 36 Beyond ERP 42 Reducing Complexity 46 A Vision for the Post ERP Era 49 Making Integration Work for You 57 CFO Checklist 60 3 Streamlining the Financial Supply Chain 63 What is the Financial Supply Chain? 66 Leveraging the Benefits 66 In-house Cash and Banking 73 Order-to-cash/Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment 80 Purchase-to-pay 90 Simplifying Billing and Payment: Bill Consolidation 91 e-Financing and e-Settlement: A Promising New Tool 93 The Future: Integration and Collaboration 96 CFO Checklist 100 4 Moving from “Shared” to “Managed” Services 103 Why Move to Shared Services? 106 Shared Services Today 111 Physical versus Virtual SSCs: The Lights Are Still On! 113 To Outsource – or Not to Outsource? 115 Evolving Technology: What’s New, Faster, Better 122 Applications Management and Managed Services 124 Evolving Exchanges: Huge Promise and Tough Reality 130 The Potential for Web Services 137 Making it Happen 144 CFO Checklist 150 5 Connecting Strategy with Operations 153 Introducing Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) 157 Tracking Corporate Performance 160 Integrated Risk Management 166 Blow Up the Budget! 171 Operational Planning and Simulation 177 Business Consolidation and Integration 179 Implementing Integrated SEM 185 CFO Checklist 194 6 Analytics: Converting Data into Action 197 Broader Bottom-line Demands 202 Integrated Analytics: Transforming Data into Decisions 205 Increasing Customer Value through Analytics 207 Bringing Analytics to Supply Chain Management 214 Analytics: Transforming the Finance Function 220 Enriching Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) 227 Improving Human Resource (HR) Analytics 232 Getting Started: Analytics Critical Success Factors 235 CFO Checklist 241 7 Collaboration via the CFO Portal 243 Doubling Productivity 246 Choosing the Right Portal 249 Integration Outweighs Best-of-breed Technology 254 The Personalized Desktop 255 Why should the CFO Drive Portals? 258 A Journey, not a Destination 265 Growing your Finance Community 272 CFO Checklist 277 8 Managing Intangibles 279 Intangible Assets: The New Value Drivers 282 The Problems with Traditional Accounting 283 A New Approach to Performance Management 287 The Enterprise Control Panel 293 Harnessing Innovation and Customer Relationships 295 Value Creation through Value Networks 299 New Processes, New Skills, New Systems 304 Communicating Value Internally and Externally 305 CFO Checklist 313 9 Integrating for Corporate Integrity 315 Global GAAP and Accountability for Value 319 Rebuilding Public Trust 322 CFO as Independent Business Partner 326 The Corporate Reporting Supply Chain 327 Closing the Information Gap 331 Timely and Accurate Financial Reporting 333 Integrating Processes, People, and Technology 337 CFO Checklist 347 Epilogue 349 Biographies 353 Notes 359 Index 363

About the Author :
Cedric Read currently acts as a strategic advisor to SAP on the impact of eBusiness and technology on the finance function. He also works with Atos KPMG, providing consultancy services to CFOs in leading companies ranging from Shell and BP to Diageo and GlaxoSmithKline. Cedric Read served as a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for close to 25 years. In his position as Global Leader of PwC's Financial Management Consultancy, he wrote two books, CFO: Architect of the Corporation's Future and eCFO: Sustaining Value in the New Corporation. Hans-Dieter Scheuermann is senior vice president of SAP's General Business Unit Financials group, which has global responsibility for developing leading-edge new software products to support financial and managerial accounting, strategic enterprise management (SEM), and business analytics. Most recently, he has spearheaded an initiative to development sophisticated software solutions in financial supply chain management. Prior to his current position, he coordinated SAP software solutions for the financial services industry.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780470441503
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 047044150X
  • Publisher Date: 18 May 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 384


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