In August 2007, CFO Research Services launched a research program to explore the ways in which the role of the finance team has changed in recent years. This report presents the findings of our online survey of 255 senior finance executives. 

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 

Forrester found that by moving from a legacy reporting platform to a more flexible and dynamic reporting environment organizations can realize benefits around greater employee efficiency and improved visibility and consistency of financial information. 

Financial reporting can be time-consuming and expensive if done manually. In this expert guide, learn how automating financial reporting can offer your organization key benefits and discover recommendations on how to get started. 

This resource describes how the SAP Intercompany application can remove the biggest barrier from your financial close process – enabling reporting units to reconcile intercompany balances earlier while liberating central finance from labor-intensive involvement. 

Learn how comprehensive workforce management processes can transform common challenges of healthcare enterprise into opportunities. Discover how to improve the quality of patient care, meet regulatory compliances and reduce costs. 

This informative presentation discusses the importance of human capital and its effect on business performance and financial success. 

This brief video introduces an analytics platform that combines predictive analytics with what-if analysis, giving CFOs valuable insight into financial performance and paving the way for smarter, more reliable enterprise decision-making. 

Are fragmented enterprise performance management (EPM) point solutions the best way to help your people be more risk sensitive, productive, and informed when making decisions and responding to changing corporate finance priorities? Download this brief to learn how SAP EPM solutions provide a better alternative for corporate financial management. 

Read this white paper to find five tips to simplify your financial consolidation process. 

This white paper identifies the many challenges companies face when implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in corporate reporting and explores tightly integrated solutions that together centrally manage data and metadata on a unified platform--the first step in implementing a complete performance management solution. 

Today's tools and technologies for analyzing data enable individual users to access the reporting results they need instead of relying on a financial team to disperse data conclusions. Read this white paper to learn how these tools work and eight steps to help your departments leverage these technologies to gain key information from your data.