Automating External and Internal Financial Reporting
. Robert Kugel is a senior vice president at Ventana Research , where heads up the Finance practice ...
Planning for Fixed-Asset Investment Requires the Right Tool, Not Just a Spreadsheet
In today's economy, all companies are contending with a dynamic business environment characterized by volatile commodity prices and exchange rates, a shaky global financial system and slow growth in many countries. Many of them rely heavily on desktop spr ...
A Practical Look at Driver-Based Planning
... came up in the context of our planning benchmark research showing that only 6 percent of companies with more than 100 ...
Going Beyond the Budget
... the chart. Robert Kugel is a senior vice president at Ventana Research , where.... This is an issue most companies face. Our benchmark ...
The Sustained Advantage of FPM
are so well established, Ventana Research's benchmark research finds that a majority of companies... ... of the table Robert Kugel is senior vice president at Ventana Research , where he heads up ...
FINANCE GEEK: Priming the Profit Pump with Price Optimization and Sales Incentives
Two software applications I follow, price and revenue optimization (PRO) and sales compensation and incentives, can be highly complementary when used together. Unfortunately, since they typically are developed and sold by different kinds of software vendo ...
FINANCE GEEK: Why You Need a Tax IT Guru
. Ventana Research's benchmark research finds that as many as half of finance organizations have ...
Ventana Research: Creating Your Tax Database of Record
... departments have limited knowledge of the laws. When Ventana Research has benchmarked topics that involve taxes... enough; having the ...
Finance Geek: Why Our Government Needs Performance Management
"Performance management" is an approach to running an organization that aims to optimize the use of its resources. It is an outgrowth of the concept of Peter Drucker's mid-20th century "management by objectives," which emphasizes measuring results against ...
Finance Geek: A Blueprint for Profitability Management
. Ventana Research Profitability Table... customers. Indeed, for years research has shown that financial services companies make high profits ...












