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Revamping Financial Analysis to Gain Business Insight

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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

The Link between Sustainability Management and Business Financial Management

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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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Blog Topics: Financial Accounting Management Software

Why You Should Strive for an Efficient Financial Close

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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

3 Constraints Facing Today's Finance Professionals

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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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Blog Topics: Financial Accounting Management Software

Aspects of a Team that Leaders Need to be Aware of

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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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Blog Topics: Talent Management

Providing Stellar Service for Hotel Guests with Social Collaboration Tool

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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

Entry-level Recruitment: Meeting Generation Z

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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

The True Value of Corporate Budgeting

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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

Factors to Consider when Choosing Accounting Software (Part 3)

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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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Blog Topics: Financial Accounting Management Software

[Infographic] Must-have Digital Tools for Modern CFOs

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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

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