Recent TRG blog posts

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

In battle, strategic ambiguity can sometimes lead to disastrous results. At Gettysburg, for example, on the first day of the epic US Civil War battle, General Robert E. Lee ordered General Richard Ewell to take Cemetery Hill “if practicable.”

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

In battle, strategic ambiguity can sometimes lead to disastrous results. At Gettysburg, for example, on the first day of the epic US Civil War battle, General Robert E. Lee ordered General Richard Ewell to take Cemetery Hill “if practicable.”

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

As chartered management accountants, CIMA members throughout the world have a duty to observe the highest standards of conduct and integrity, and to uphold the good standing and reputation of the profession.

Blog Topics: 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

Every year, the IFRS experts at accounting firm Grant Thornton International publish what they call the “IFRS Top 20 Tracker.” It contains the 20 disclosure and accounting issues they think will pose potential challenges to IFRS preparers for the year.

Blog Topics: IFRS, Financial Accounting Management Software

In planning, budgeting, and forecasting, numbers do not always represent a complete or accurate picture. As a budget rolls up, small errors can snowball into major miscalculations, which ultimately have to be explained to senior managers or, even worse, investors.

Blog Topics: Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Financial Accounting Management Software

The world is changing fast, and so is the working environment of finance executives. Never before have the demands on finance been so great – or the stakes so high. Here are several mega-trends that are reshaping the role of finance organisations and transforming the careers of those in charge of them:

Blog Topics: CFOs, Financial Accounting Management Software