Rick Yvanovich
Rick is a versatile leader that wears multiple hats: he is USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, a Speaker, an Entrepreneur, a Techie, a Brit, a Baby Boomer, and a professional bean counter (hence the FCMA CGMA FCPA). Rick has worked for 30+ years in supermarkets, the accounting profession, breweries, newsagents, defence manufacturing, IT, property development and BP in the UK, China, Singapore, Switzerland and Vietnam. Rick views Coaching as essential to leadership and is inculcating the value in his own organisation. Thus, his current focus is on Ikigai, Life, Executive, Performance, Team, and Coaching Culture Coaching. Rick inspires and transforms professionals for consistently higher achievement through coaching.
Financial analysis dates back centuries, at least to the codification of double-entry bookkeeping in the 15th century. The analysis of balance sheets and income statements has long served as the basis of credit and lending decisions.
The discipline of management accounting developed in the early 20th century as a way of using accounting data to keep corporate executives and managers informed about what happened or is happening and why.
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Blog Topics:
Financial consolidation, planning and reporting,
Financial Accounting Management Software
More and more companies are coming to realise that sustainability performance management (SPM) can create and protect their businesses’ long-term value. Thus, defining the link between sustainability and business performance becomes critical in business management, especially in financial aspects.
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Financial Accounting Management Software
In today’s fast-moving world, companies have to juggle multiple priorities when managing their business, such as overseeing financials transactions, measuring corporate performance, attesting financial reports, timely closing and consolidating financial data. Thus, it is no surprise that CFOs are always aiming to close books and comply with regulations faster and more efficiently.
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Blog Topics:
Planning and Budgeting,
Financial consolidation, planning and reporting,
Financial Accounting Management Software
In the era of economic changes, it cannot be denied that the role of finance professionals has become more and more important. Financial constraints have created a host of issues, such as greater risks of layoffs, intense competition to stay in the market and headaches in delivering efficiency while driving down costs.
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Financial Accounting Management Software
You have probably experienced many cases where you’ve encountered the CV of the perfect candidate, who possesses an outstanding experience and checks all of your boxes. However, throughout the probation period, the candidate turns out to be unfit for your team and your organisation.
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Talent Management
You and your hotel staff are constantly flooded with information from emails, text messages, walkie-talkies, online meetings, and, of course, telephone calls. But your communication technologies are imperfect, because they exist in silos and are disconnected from core systems and processes. Because of that, your employees may lose key facts, fail to make necessary handoffs, and miss connections and opportunities to provide stellar service.
Learn more: Hospitality resource portal
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Blog Topics:
Hospitality solutions
Much has been written about Millennials (Generation Y) in the workplace. But the labour workforce is getting swamped by Generation Z, those who were born after 1995 and are about to looking for more professional roles sooner or later.
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Blog Topics:
Talent Management
Budgeting is one of the most fundamental business processes. However, there have been controversial views regarding to the true value of budgeting, or what it actually brings to companies in terms of ROI. Some people say that the process can be skipped, some say it plays a considerable role, while others remain sceptical about an objective way to measure the ROI of budgeting.
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Blog Topics:
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM),
Financial Accounting Management Software
In the previous posts, we touched upon the somewhat more obvious factors to consider when picking an accounting software solution, such as your company’s requirements and the software’s capabilities. However, they are only half the story.
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Financial Accounting Management Software
Digital disruption has been creating new norms in the way organisations operate. In the era of Digital Transformation, CFOs are expected to look beyond their traditional roles to become an enterprise-wide strategist, an innovation and a change leader utilising technology and help drive the business. Adopting new digital tools is a must in order to further improve existing capabilities and the overall performance of the CFO.
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Blog Topics:
CFOs,
Financial Accounting Management Software