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Join us for a live webcast and hear supply chain finance experts, Navdeep Gupta, Director, Treasury, Advance Auto Parts and David Conroy, Managing Director, Global Transaction Banking, Deutsche Bank, provide insights into how to accommodate your working capital needs. They will address the following points during this interactive session:

• Learn why and how to utilize a supplier financing solution
• Identify best practices in implementing a robust financial supply chain solution
• Understand procurement's role during implementation
• Discover ways to facilitate on-boarding of suppliers

Join Procter & Gamble's Jeff Wuest and Greg Hinson as they offer a leading example of how to make the forecasting process more effective and transparent. Hear about P&G's global forecasting initiative, the challenges, and how they approached the daunting task of coordinating, collecting, rationalizing and aggregating regional and global business unit forecasts. Learn about the software they adopted, the granularity, consistency and comparability it provides and the value the visibility adds.

Optimizing business performance has never been more critical. Businesses need accuracy and transparency in their planning, budgeting and forecasting processes in order to drive strategy and positively affect their performance. Discover how automating planning, reporting and consolidation processes with a unified solution and applying planning best practices helps companies address financial and operational challenges and lay the groundwork for a more competitive organization.

In this webcast, Virgil Colby, Program Manager of the Celestica IFRS Transition Project will help answer these key questions and provide valuable insight for finance professionals impacted by or involved in an IFRS transition project. In addition, Tony Wright, Vice President, Product Management for Longview Solutions, will demonstrate how corporate performance management (CPM) software can dramatically reduce the time, effort and cost associated with IFRS transitioning and reporting.

Best Practices for Creating, Deploying and Optimizing Performance Metrics

Performance metrics are a powerful tool for organizational change and operational effectiveness. Establish goals, measure progress, reward achievement, and display the results for all to see, and people and teams will go to Herculean lengths to ensure success. Executives can use performance metrics to define and communicate strategic objectives tailored to every role and level of the organization. Managers can use performance metrics to quickly identify under-performing individuals or teams or ineffective processes and steer them back on track. Employees use performance metrics to focus on what's important and strive to do their best.

Learn how Cano Petroleum Cut Financial Close Process Time by 25% with SAP and Optimal Solutions

Join us for a live webcast and discover how automating financial reporting and performance management processes helps midsize companies address their most immediate operational challenges while laying the foundation for growth.

Our expert panel will discuss common finance operational challenges and how to leverage low-risk, turnkey technology solutions to streamline reporting, mitigate risk, ensure compliance, and gain accurate, real-time enterprise-wide visibility. The panel will also review best practices for achieving finance operational excellence Key areas include Customer and Vendor Management; Asset Management; Business Segment Reporting and, Cost Planning & Budgeting to name a few.

It’s clear, some organizations may be viewing the current economic downturn as an excuse to stop business improvements and shut off the process improvement spigot. These same businesses may now have more to fear from an economic recovery, when process-minded competitors easily overtake them on the path to renewed growth.

Attend this informative webcast and learn what best practices are helping organizations take control of their fragmented T&E spend and how process improvements can be implemented to actually achieve significant category savings. Find out what types of enabling tools are now available to monitor spend, track compliance and capture savings across the enterprise.

The Role of Procurement in Driving Significant Cost Savings

Current economic conditions and a tight credit market are driving CFOs to step-up efforts to preserve cash, control spending and reduce costs. In parallel, there are increased risks associated with cash management, supplier and vendor failures, and fluctuating costs.

As the last recession taught us, many quick cures can cause longer term problems. Hopefully, we have learned the lesson that some strategies are sustainable and lead to a more efficient and competitive business, while some simply do not, but rather present increased risks.

Learn how your business can benefit from the latest research on performance management.

Managing business performance is more important than ever. A challenging economy, changing business models, cautious customers and continuously shifting budgets have created a mandate for more effective processes and tools to make sound business decisions.

Join the experts from Ventana Research and Host Analytics and learn how to accurately assess your business performance management strengths and weaknesses.

Learn world-wide best practices and benefits of cost and profitability systems

Join experts from the Business Research and Analysis Group (BRAG) and Oracle for a fascinating look at these issues. Dr. Raef Lawson & Dr. William Stratton of BRAG will present findings from a recent survey on cost and profitability management systems. In this informative, one-hour webcast

This webcast will provide practical advice and key insights into what works in profitability and cost management systems -- and why having an effective system today can improve your company's performance tomorrow.

The webcast will review the leading performance management vendors on their progress, positioning, vision and changes over the past year. We will include an end-user ranking of the importance and value of new features that vendors are developing. We will reveal our list of the "core" performance management and business intelligence vendors for 2009 -- those vendors most companies should consider in their evaluations, as well as highlighting outstanding new vendors and specialists. BPM Partners will introduce its latest BPM Vendor Landscape Matrix to help you put all the vendors in perspective. In addition, 2009 BPM Pulse Survey data will be shared that highlights project status, planned expenditures, impact on BPM of IFRS and the global financial crisis, and the percentage of projects that meet or exceed their initial expectations.

An Exclusive Presentation by Microsoft North America CFO, John Rex
Global economic uncertainty is putting increased pressure on Microsoft finance to identify top line revenue growth opportunities as well as thoughtful efficiency and productivity plans. To achieve this, Microsoft finance must continue to do the basics well and also ensure that an agile strategic planning and performance management process exists to plan, monitor, analyze and make good decisions. Microsoft North America CFO, John Rex will discuss the performance management culture at Microsoft and also how technology has enabled greater agility in managing performance.

As it appears ever more likely that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is accelerating measures to retire GAAP and to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) -- it make sense to assess readiness sooner rather than later. IFRS implementation is relevant across the enterprise with implications beyond just financial management and reporting -- it reaches and affects all areas of your business. It will influence many aspects of a U.S. company's operations, from information technology systems, to tax reporting requirements, to the tracking of stock-based compensation.

Join representatives from Raymond James, AT Kearney and Infor as they discuss both the tangible results of having a fully automated expense management solution and some of the intangible results you may never have considered. Areas where your company could be losing money may not even be on your radar yet. Register for this free webcast and discover how to reduce costs through policy enforcement and refinement, how to analyze specific areas of expense, and ways to systematically prevent unnecessary expenses.

With increased regulatory oversight, shareholder accountability and financial management scrutiny, just automating T&E expenses is no longer enough. You need to get in front of the situation and be able to systematically prevent unnecessary and wasteful T&E spend. Do you have the systems in place to handle this?

An Executive's Guide to Integrated Business Planning

Most companies plan in silos and in spreadsheets! Time, money and resources will mitigate some pitfalls of this approach but right now it's likely you don't have much of these to spare. Failing to understand the implications of change can lead to difficult conversations with your boardroom, investors or shareholders. You need an integrated business plan that includes finance and operations, all in one process. This will allow you to quickly and accurately assess the big picture, rather than just looking at pieces of a puzzle.

This Webcast will explore how organizations can leverage a center of excellence methodology to increase operational efficiency and sales productivity.

The extraordinary is now the ordinary. But you already knew that. You didn't need an economic tsunami to tell you:

• We need to stop running Real-Time business in batch mode
• We need to Plan and Account the way we actually run the business
• Volatility is now Central and not just an afterthought to the already approved business plan

Control and oversight of sales compensation has become a top priority in finance organizations. They are challenged when it comes to accurately calculating commissions, auditing payments and forecasting compensation (as plans are devised and revised). Too many companies continue to use spreadsheets despite the fact they are error prone and time consuming. Automating the process is critical to providing the information required for financial management and control.

The editors of Business Finance have prepared an exclusive research report in conjunction with CA, that investigates how CFOs and other senior finance executives will address risk and compliance concerns in the year ahead. The survey explores how the role in managing risk and compliance is changing, the various departments within the organization are now responsible for risk and compliance, and the benefits that organizations are seeing from the programs they have in place.