Chief Financial Officer -- As a Corporate Integrator

Author: Reed et al
Publisher:
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
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 company CFOs today. Driven by globalization, new technologies, and recent accounting scandals, the CFO's role is shifting 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. A key feature of this book is its creation of forward-looking, value-added financial plans through interviews with CFOs, leveraging new research, case studies, and well-structured action plans.