Recent TRG blog posts

“It’s an increasingly complex world” (Accenture, 2012)

Today, economic turmoil and volatility are dominant and the roles of CFOs and senior finance managers are changing. Thus, it’s critical that CFOs are able to:

Blog Topics: Planning and Budgeting, CFOs, Financial consolidation, planning and reporting, Financial Accounting Management Software

When Aberdeen Group conducted a study in 2011, they identified three classes of performance in corporate financial planning, budgeting and forecasting: Best-in-class, industry average and laggard. The research group outlined steps to help companies improve their performance, regardless of their current class.

Blog Topics: CFOs, Financial consolidation, planning and reporting, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Financial Accounting Management Software

Blog Topics: CFOs

Blog Topics: CFOs, Financial Accounting Management Software

Blog Topics: CFOs, Financial Accounting Management Software

In order to address objectives around both core and strategic financials, CFOs should look to Corporate Finance Management (CFM) as a proven solution. CFM is an integrated approach that combines flexible transaction processing and other core applications with the real-time reporting, analysis and planning capabilities necessary to strategically guide an enterprise.

Blog Topics: CFOs, Financial Accounting Management Software

In an increasingly demanding working environment, CFOs may find themselves trying to perfect core financial activities and finding a way to elevate finance to a strategic level. Among the challenges are:

Blog Topics: CFOs, Financial Accounting Management Software

The term ‘business competency’ denotes a range of broadly business or commercial-oriented skills. ‘Technical competency’ encompasses accounting and IT skills. There is not a total divide between business competency and technical competency. Change management and risk management skills for example both represent an ‘intermediate’ competency.

Blog Topics: CFOs, Financial Accounting Management Software

The term ‘business competency’ denotes a range of broadly business or commercial-oriented skills. ‘Technical competency’ encompasses accounting and IT skills. There is not a total divide between business competency and technical competency. Change management and risk management skills for example both represent an ‘intermediate’ competency.

Blog Topics: CFOs, Financial Accounting Management Software

After touching a record low in the previous quarter since this survey was started in September 2009, CFO optimism has recovered sharply. There is still significant pessimism, but the region’s finance chiefs are sunnier these day on both the macro-level and company-level than they have been in the recent past.

Blog Topics: CFOs, Financial Accounting Management Software