Chief Financial Officer: As an enterprise integrator

Author: Reed
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Today, the role of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has gone beyond traditional boundaries and actively spans operational functions, partners, and geographical limits to integrate these resources, thereby creating a truly global company. The CFO—As an Enterprise Integrator is a practical, performance-oriented guide that leads businesses to leverage the benefits of new integration technologies and forms a new, future-oriented financial process around the financial supply chain, management services, advanced analytics, and decision support. From complexity to simplicity—this is the theme faced by world-class CFOs today. Driven by globalization, new technologies, and recent accounting scandals, the role of the CFO is transforming rapidly from a bookkeeper to an enterprise integrator. What challenges will CFOs face now and in the future?
· Mastering the integration tools of the entire enterprise
· Achieving a return on investment from technology investments
· Streamlining financial processes
· Improving analytics and decision support
· Managing outsourcing and external alliances
· Ensuring strict reporting and transparency
The CFO—As an Enterprise Integrator addresses all these challenges and more. This book provides timely, practical advice and solutions to reshape the financial function to enable real-time information sharing, high-end decision support, and true globalization. The book features interviews with CFOs, draws on new research findings, case studies, and well-structured action plans to create forward-looking, value-added financial strategies.