In today’s economic environment, it is imperative for finance leaders to make the right decisions to sustain and grow the financial health of their companies. Metrics driven CPM enables finance executives to do just that – by providing accurate and timely information in such a way that enables decision makers to execute and plan based on the powerful data generated by a corporate performance management business model.

Kelly Battles will share her experience in finance leadership roles and what she has learned on how to be a successful CFO for a SaaS company. She will share her insights regarding the evolving role of finance and the significance of a metrics driven organization. Kelly will provide concrete examples of how a metrics driven CPM model enables finance leaders to use benchmarks to implement best practices within their own finance organizations

Working capital is a major challenge for small and mid-sized companies, but today’s credit markets offer little relief. Find out why a growing number of successful businesses are taking an innovative receivables-based approach to cash flow management. Register for our exclusive webinar today!

Join us and learn:

• Why a new, market-based approach to selling receivables is more flexible and affordable than older methods such as factoring.
• How one company took control of working capital – and achieved remarkable growth – by selling receivables in an online marketplace.
• How to get affordable financing for your company without personal guarantees, all-asset liens, customer notification or binding contracts.

Featured presenter Kayle Neely, President and Owner of the EZ Payroll & Staffing Group of Companies, will explain how online receivables financing allows his company to fund operations and growth initiatives without the constraints of other short-term financing options. Don’t miss this chance to learn about an emerging "best practice" in business finance. Register now!

With today's stringent controls on reporting timeliness and accuracy and increased internal demands for meaningful financial information you are probably looking for a process that not only meets external reporting requirements but also feeds in the executive decision making process. In this webinar we will be discussing the Top 8 Best Practices for Consolidation and Reporting and how you can gain visibility and structure for quicker financial close results.

Financial planning done in silos within a static environment which does not allow anticipating and reacting to changes in business conditions puts companies at a competitive disadvantage. Developments in technology have changed the economics upgrading from the world of financial planning done in Excel and similar systems to a system that offers the functionality to unlock the power of delivering the right data at the right time to key decision makers to drive growth and profitability. The webinar content will include an overview of best practices in financial planning, how current and emerging technologies enable the adoption of best practices, and a case from a senior level financial professional that has leveraged technology in transforming the financial planning process at his company to impact top line growth and elevate the role of finance at his company.

Budgeting and planning is a key concern for many CFOs. Budget Time can last up to 6 months for some companies, negating any possibility of frequent re-forecasting. Worse still, mistakes are made and undiscovered, creating inaccuracies in financial reporting. What this process needs is a complete re-thinking and re-execution to make it better, faster, and more accurate and accountable. Join us to learn best practices including how to anticipate or react to change quickly, and weather adverse market conditions by modeling and planning for them.

Our world is clearly in transition to new paradigms that require new approaches to managing for success. Finance can only remain relevant by transforming as well. What it takes to succeed today is harnessing the knowledge and creativity of the entire organization, especially those that work at the intersection between the company and its customers. But how do you empower your employees and adapt to change without losing control?

In this webinar, featuring Business Finance planning and forecasting guru Steve Player, you’ll see how the office of Finance can use new approaches and new ways of thinking to transform performance management systems and drive enhanced productivity, performance and profitability throughout an organization.

Part of The Finance and the Cloud Webcast Series

The cloud has fundamentally altered the cost structure for technology. Companies no longer need to worry about dedicated, perishable resources like computing power, bandwidth, storage and software when they can get what they need, when they need it, from the cloud.

Join Business Finance budgeting planning and forecasting guru Steve Player as he examines how innovative organizations are finding new, lower costs ways to conduct business. Also joining the discussion is Marvin Newell, a partner with Everest Group, who will examine how the cloud improves both the economics of IT spending as well as non-economic factors such as speed and flexibility.

This session will focus on how finance decision support activities are using cloud computing to support rapid, low cost management analysis and actions. This is speeding both implementations and dramatically expanding usage. Learn how software as a service is helping organizations to move beyond transaction processing and bring greater value to business managers across the enterprise.

Recent research by APQC has found that a majority of large companies are currently planning or executing financial process improvement programs. They vary in terms of size of investment, urgency, and focus. But they share a common desire: to make finance more efficient and, at the same time, more effective.

Why this surge? CFOs know that legacy financial processes and systems are not adequate to address coming regulatory burdens and business managers’ growing needs for stronger analytical support from finance.

In this webinar, Mary Driscoll, Senior Research Fellow at APQC, along with Gary Callaghan and Ryan Senter from Protiviti, will examine the critical success factors in finance transformation.

At a time when corporate tax and accounting departments are caught between shrinking staff and ever-tightening budgets, it’s getting harder than ever to initiate a tax provision project and see it through to completion. Opportunities for derailment and competing business priorities lurk around every corner, whether they’re anticipated or catch you by surprise.

In this final chapter of CCH’s tax accounting series, “Four Steps to Tax Provision Success,” you will be see how organizations can review current provision projects, eliminate obstacles and keep plans on track for success.

Finance departments continue to be undermined by many of the same problems: budgets are not aligned with strategy, financial reporting processes are slow and complex, and key business information is not available quickly enough to decision-makers.

The use of corporate performance management systems is considered a best practice in addressing these issues. In this webinar, you will learn how companies can quickly expand beyond historic data gathering and traditional analysis to incorporate more thorough understanding of what factors truly drives performance.

Join us for a timely update on the SEC's XBRL mandate and how the mandate milestones in 2011 and 2012 will affect your organization's processes and timelines for preparing accurate and timely XBRL in addition to quarterly and annual reports.  Learn the extended benefits and value of integrated XBRL solutions that go beyond XBRL tagging and automate existing manual and error-prone financial reporting processes and enhance controls over the 'last mile' of reporting. Then, see a live product demonstration on Cognos FSR, the market leading financial reporting and disclosure management solution and its unique integrated XBRL tagging and validation capabilities that will streamline and simplify the reporting and XBRL tagging process.

In an increasingly volatile business climate, forecasting has never been more important, or more challenging. Many corporations have to confront the fact that their existing forecasting processes are not effective: unpleasant surprises are becoming more the norm rather than the exception.

Join The Hackett Group and IBM industry experts to learn:

• What the leaders are doing to improve forecasting
• How to overcome barriers to change
• How to automate and sustain a renewed forecasting process

Executives today are under pressure to keep pace with rapid global change and demonstrate results faster than ever before. But in a climate of financial and political uncertainty, and permanent volatility, organizations have struggled to implement strategies that achieve successful results. Learn how finance functions have built on traditional services to offer corporate performance management services to accelerate their company's results.

Join Bob Paladino, a longtime implementation practitioner and guru in the Corporate Performance Management field, as he shares his research on human capital's innovative contributions to achieving company strategy and related case studies from award-winning organizations. Learn how your organization can use five key principals of CPM to implement business strategies successfully by linking them to your budget.

Simply reviewing financial statements is not enough these days. Finance executives need to have more complex answers to more detailed questions on customers, products and brands and their relationship with new laws and regulations. Join Michael P. Krzus, president of Mike Krzus Consulting, as he explains the benefits of integrated reporting and how it can contribute to managing regulatory risk.

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Join us for a 60 minute webcast as we examine high-performing organizations and their ability to automate financial reporting and disclosures. We will contrast that with the struggles of organizations still mired in complex and manual internal and external financial reporting processes.

The SEC’s recent XBRL compliance mandate doesn’t have to be just another burdensome compliance report. It also represents an opportunity for companies to realize new benefits XBRL brings to financial reporting. Join Neal Hannon, an XBRL consultant for the Gilbane Group and the former director of Financial Reporting Technologies for the Financial Accounting Foundation, as he examines the implications this transition has for the internal compliance team, the risk and audit board committees and to external auditors. Hannon will also share his perspective on recent developments in XBRL software, how cloud computing is affecting auditing and track new trends affecting XBRL audit assurance.

CPE Credits Available: 1

With a focus on improved profitability in a fiercely competitive market , many financial institutions are expanding their use of technology for their budgeting, planning, forecasting and broader performance management needs including:

• Profitability planning and analysis including assessing impact of variability in portfolio and interest rates on net income
• Planning / modeling for the entire P & L including interest rates, spreads, growth, non-interest income, capital, payroll,etc.
• Integrated balance sheet planning, including runoffs, new volumes, projections of loans and deposits
• M&A modeling at the legal entity, region, branch and portfolio level with detailed cash flow analysis

When it comes to income tax provisions, corporate tax departments walk a dangerous tightrope between meeting reporting deadlines and delivering accurate results. Despite the increased complexity of tax provisioning, most companies still manage their processes with labor-intensive, error-prone manual spreadsheets.

In this third of four webinars, you see how organizations can utilize a complete balance sheet process for tax provisions, delivering faster, more reliable reporting and eliminating tax surprises.

Leading manufacturers and large enterprises are renewing their focus on profit and cost management. With an integrated software solution, companies such as yours can improve financial transparency and avoid pitfalls such as unprofitable revenue streams and operational decisions that don’t drive the bottom line.

Join us on July 28 for our Webinar and find out how Nestlé Direct Store Delivery, a division of Nestlé USA, used the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management application to cut distribution costs and speed financial processes.

In today's volatile world, traditional planning techniques and a set-in-stone budget just doesn’t cut it. Organizations need to instill budget, planning and forecasting techniques that reflect the rapidly changing landscapes they operate in. Business-planning consultant Steve Player will examine the critical processes involved in generating rolling forecasts and how better forecasting can improve decision making and profitability.