Tag Archives: Data Quality

I Can See Clearly Now: Maintaining Required Levels of Transparency for IFRS Reporting

Are spreadsheets still a part of your IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) reporting process? For most companies, the answer is yes – thanks in large part to the complex requirements of IFRS, spreadsheets were often put in place to bridge the gap between the reporting differences in ERP systems and IFRS during the initial conversion […]

4 Skills to Bridge Experience Gaps in Financial Audit Teams

Sometimes audit managers must find ways to bridge gaps between finance professionals with varying levels of experience to build a cohesive team. Review four imperative skills that finance and audit teams need to have to maintain success and minimize oversight and risk whether your auditors are on day 1 or day 1001. 1. Understanding Changing […]

How Do You Calculate the Cost of a Spreadsheet?

This article takes an insightful look into the cost of a single spreadsheet that is used for financial consolidation.  Many companies ignore the high cost of maintaining spreadsheets because they have already purchased Excel or another package, and there are not huge license fees.   Spreadsheets are great tools for short, small projects, but care […]

Five Steps to Take an Enterprise Apps Implementation from “Finished” to “Done”

Enterprise applications must continually evolve to support ongoing business changes. Frequently companies reach a stage where their ERP applications have “functional capability” but do not efficiently support the business process and are not easily adaptable. The below method operates at the individual application level as well as the enterprise ecosystem level to help companies obtain […]

The Business vs. IT: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

It is no surprise that IT is not always aligned with business goals.  The conflicts arise because IT is often unaware of how the business uses the systems that IT is responsible for installing and supporting, and the business is often unaware of exactly what is involved in an IT project.  There are several other […]

Change as a Growth Enabler

Despite the inevitability of change, the resistance to it is so pervasive that it has inspired numerous publications and an entire industry of change management experts dedicated to overcoming it. The inability to change is certainly seen as a major flaw in business, resulting in the call for agile management, agile IT, and agile thinking. […]

Chart of Accounts Transformation Master Class: Tips for Designing Effective Charts

Automation continues to transform whole industries – and finance and audit are no exception. Specific to the financial audit, most of the high-volume, routine, non-judgmental activities in real time are being transformed by software, leaving audit professionals more time to do what they do best: analyze results and make expert judgement calls. This webinar focuses on the framework and standards under which audits are currently conducted, and will showcase real-world examples where automation streamlines workflows to transform the entire audit process.

Into the Future (And Back Again)

Designing an accounting flexfield is one of the most difficult processes in an Oracle® implementation. Often, the failure to look far enough ahead during the initial implementation can impede business growth, and certainly makes it difficult to have your data truly ready for a fast-paced future. A “good” chart of accounts has the following criteria: […]

10 Steps to Reduce Complexity, Increase Transparency, and Get Value from your ERP System

Common data definitions that are aligned with business processes are what allow organizations to change as a result of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, new regulatory requirements, and new market initiatives. It has probably been years since you have taken steps to reevaluate the future business requirements and ensure that you are able to move in new […]

The Roadmap to Synergy

Companies evolve. While everyone’s story is unique—growth from regional to national or international, mergers and acquisitions, diversification of business lines and product offerings, and disparate regulatory environments—many of these business and regulatory drivers lead companies to have disparate data and localized operations. Whatever the cause, these fragmented environments can inhibit business agility and stunt performance […]