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Expert Slides from Accenture

Steve Culp, leader of Accenture’s global risk management practice, explains what steps companies can take to align their business strategies with their risk appetites.

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Understanding Your IT Investment

Tom DeGarmo, Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Leader of the firm’s Technology Consulting business can discuss new trends/important issues that PwC is researching in all areas of information technology and what the firm refers to as “the new CIO in the ‘reset economy’.”

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A CFO’s Guide to CRM

Calvin Jackman explains how Horizon Software streamlined customer management and reduced cost of customer acquisition.

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Keeping IT Costs Aligned

Mark Peacock, a principal at Archstone Consulting, explains how CFO’s can optimize their company’s IT investment and mend the disconnect between finance and IT.

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Death of the Budget?

Steve Player, Beyond Budgeting Round Table, explains how approaches to traditional budgeting have broken down over the last eighteen months, and what steps finance executives need to take to replace traditional budgeting processes.

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Overcoming BPM Road Blocks

Despite having an impressive track record of success, BPM strategies are still often met with resistance from within. Gary Cokins, author of Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics (2009 John Wiley Sons Inc.) explains what actions finance leaders can take to overcome road blocks and gain new advocates.

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Finding Cash By Tapping Indirect Tax

Scott Schaefer, a partner with Deloitte Tax LLP, explains how finance executives are increasingly leveraging indirect tax opportunities to generate refunds and recover large sums of money.

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How to Use Analytics

Bill Fuessler, global leader of IBM Corp.’s financial management practice, explains how companies can better apply business analytics to their business decision-making.

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How to Realize Merger Synergies

Susan Dettmar Cypra, principal, Archstone Consulting explains what steps companies need to take to better realize the revenue and profit gains a merger or acquisition promises to deliver.

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Managing Tax Function Costs

Mark Schutzman of the Tax Function Effectiveness Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers, explains how
to keep understaffed tax departments off the cost cutting hit list.

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Managing Risk in Uncertain Times

Henry Ristuccia, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP, discusses how companies missed the critical risk factors leading up to the banking crisis. Ristuccia outlines steps companies need to take to better manage risk in economically challenging times.

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CME Moves to Risk Based Compliance

John Verburgt, CME’s Director of Compliance, details the best practices that allowed the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to derive strategic benefits from its GRC strategy.

Go to GRC Case Study Podcast Part 1
Go to GRC Case Study Podcast Part 2
Go to GRC Case Study Podcast Part 3

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Transitioning to Continuous Monitoring

Jason Gross, Vice President, Controls Management Siemens Financial Services, Inc., describes the process and technology used to detect compliance and risk issues associated with its financial and operational activities. Gross identifies the best practices Siemens used to transition to continuous monitoring.

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Creating Your M&A Roadmap

Gerald Adolph, Senior Vice President, Booz & Company identifies the best practices required to create a “merganic” roadmap. Adolph discusses the importance of having “relative scale” rather than just size.