WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 18 Mar 2010 | Published: 16 Mar 2010
The SEC will likely require companies to report in both GAAP and IFRS formats during the first official IFRS transition year and for two years prior. Accordingly, our customers want to know how SAP supports parallel reporting.  Read this paper to learn which options SAP recommends and find out which is best for your organization.
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WEBCAST:   Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Premiered: Available On Demand
In this webcast you'll hear from Frank Colich, vice president of finance with 3TIER, on how his company reduced its financial close time by five days. And Intacct CFO Marc Linden discusses how cloud applications can simplify and streamline any organization. Watch this webcast to learn more about how cloud computing helps gain more ROI.
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VIRTUAL SEMINAR:   Posted: 10 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Mar 2010
The regulatory landscape is constantly evolving. Within the last 18 months we've seen revisions to decade-old regulations, tweaks and clarifications to industry standards, new regulations and state data privacy laws, looming regulations for financial firms and changes to current regulations, such as the recent addition of HITECH.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 22 Jan 2010 | Published: 22 Jan 2010
This paper reviews aspects of cost reduction and examines some typical financial accounting expense categories. This paper also looks at how data quality services can be applied in those examples to reduce expenses, and examines the potential for applying data quality management as a way to manage and reduce organizational expenses.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 18 Jan 2010 | Published: 18 Jan 2010
Businesses running SAP solutions still employ paper-driven Accounts Payable processes. As a result, they are limited in their ability to minimize per-invoice costs, improve productivity, and prevent duplicate invoices. Read this paper to learn about the unique value of a comprehensive platform to streamline Accounts Payable processes.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Jan 2010 | Published: 04 Jan 2010
This paper introduces hedge funds and hedge fund service providers to IFRS.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009
This document examines the current state of Order Management Systems (OMS) portfolio management capabilities, identifies major challenges and "pain points" that firms encounter, and outlines seven system attributes needed to overcome them.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009
A new standard file format, Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), for submitting financial reports to the SEC in the United States is being mandated for June 2009. Both the creation of, and reporting from XBRL, are functions performed by the same new tool described in this paper.
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ANALYST REPORT:   Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009
What's arguably the single greatest barrier to the fast close has remained constant - the completion of the intercompany reconciliation process. This paper examines the issues behind intercompany reconciliation and outlines how companies can make impressive progress when they employ software solutions such as those from SAP Business Objects
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009
The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls
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ANALYST REPORT:   Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008
To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged the importance of cost and efficiency..
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008
In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009
In this research, we examine the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management.
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