The integrated finance organisation: Balancing risk and performance
Featured white papers
- The IBM Global CFO Study 2008
- As the demands placed on Finance continue to expand, CFOs are challenged with the paradox of delivering a stable, highly effective finance environment while also providing the agility to respond and react to rapidly changing business climates.
The IBM Global CFO Study 2008 focuses on how Finance organisations can balance competing priorities of growth, risk and performance insight, while adding significant value to the business.
More than 1200 CFOs and Senior Finance Executives from 79 countries were surveyed, representing every major industry sector.
- Finance strategy: delivering the partnering role
- In order to support the agenda for growth through innovation, Finance needs to partner more, to analyse and predict, not only record and report. To do this requires most CFOs to do some reengineering of their own role, freeing up Finance to devote more energy to the business and growth agenda.
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Towards one version of the truth: Information integrity
Never has the need for the vaunted -one version of the truth- for organisational data been so acute. International and local reporting requirements have been through a sea change, and executive teams are demanding less quantity and more quality in their management reports. How can finance balance its time and priorities to deliver what they're increasingly asked for?
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Risk Management and the Global Enterprise
Global organisations face an array of threats -operational, environmental, legal, strategic, political and financial. The CFO alone can't be expected to manage them all. But finance can provide the leadership and analytical framework to help operations get a full picture of the threats they face, and how to make risk-aware decisions.
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Additional resources
- Orchestrating risk-adjusted performance management: Identify and address risk events better and faster
- By treating risk and performance management as separate disciplines, companies can miss opportunities to limit surprises and capitalise on the upside of risk. CFOs are finding that integrating risk into planning, budgeting, reporting and forecasting can lead to better decisions through risk-adjusted plans and budgets.
- Integrating the Finance organisation for global business: important implications for CIOs
- This paper looks at the growing alignment between the financial and technical disciplines. It examines the results of the Global CFO Study 2008 in the context of IT, identifying the critical implications for CIOs, and the need for a strategic partnership with CFOs and more ongoing collaboration between Finance and IT.
- Business of Risk Digest
- Should all risk functions that were traditionally considered local become centralised? Might the aggregation of risk management face opposition if it means the CFO becomes involved in areas outside of their traditional domain? These were the issues discussed at 'The Business of Risk' dinner forum, held at the Pearson Building on 7 November, 2007.
- Risk Management and Compliance in 2008
- After last summer's credit crunch, and in what continues to be a turbulent market, banks, insurers and other financial institutions are going to demand more of their risk and compliance functions. Business units will require dynamic risk management to add greater value and provide real competitive advantage.
Featured articles from CFO.com
- Back to Basics
June 02, 2008 - After years of empire building, Ahold learns the importance of focus.
- I Report, Therefore I Am?
May 29, 2008 - FASB and IASB join forces to seek public comment on the most basic elements of accounting — like what it means to be a "reporting entity."
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Articles from CFO.com
- U.S. Open
March 03, 2008 - European food retailers have tried and failed to crack the United States. But after ten years of global growth at Tesco, the UK firm's finance and strategy director thinks it's worth the risk.
- Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Consulting's Fons Trompenaars
March 03, 2008 - As globalisation continues apace, a cross-cultural management expert explains how to manage diversity.
- A World of Antitrust
March 01, 2008 - Complexity rules in M&A overseas, although there's hope for reform in hot spots like China and India.
- Who Needs the Big Four?
January 24, 2008 - Companies both big and small that are going global, need access to regulators, and want to avoid the cost of switching—that's who.
- Audit Firm Bigs Cite Lust for Global Standards
January 15, 2008 - The CEOs of the Big Four plus two say that melding global financial-reporting standards is the top accounting priority among a range of stakeholders.
- Tales of the Unexpected
November 05, 2007 - Can enterprise risk management programs deliver bottom-line value?
Events schedule
Upcoming breakfast briefings
The Economist Tower, London
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 and Thursday, November 20, 2008
