Financial Reporting

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the current state of analytics in today's accounting systems, and ventures to find ways to enhance and strengthen this foundation. Learn how automation can help support accounting systems.

Posted: 07 May 2013 | Published: 07 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: This resource explains how disclosure management can lead to significant productivity gains when used for statutory reporting, and evaluates the viability of this strategy as an option for improving budgeting, planning, and forecasting (BPF) financial processes.

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: This quick resource describes how a finance and administration (F&A) outsourcing partner can help you strategically manage your finance and accounting business processes, leading to better business outcomes, improved service performance, and more.

Posted: 26 Mar 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: In today's economic climate, it is more important than ever for a company to achieve faster, more accurate financial closing and reporting.  Check out this white paper to learn about common targets for improving financial close, and get tips for how your business could optimize its financial processes.

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource describes how the SAP Intercompany application can remove the biggest barrier from your financial close process – enabling reporting units to reconcile intercompany balances earlier while liberating central finance from labor-intensive involvement.

Posted: 20 Mar 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: Closing the books and reporting financial results are core functions of any finance department, but the most successful companies are achieving closes at the fastest rates.  This informative white paper explains how you can close faster and shorten decision-making time in order to gain edge over your competitors.

Posted: 19 Mar 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the major areas that pose serious challenges for commercial banks today.

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 | Published: 16 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how by ensuring that their technology enables the necessary transparent analytics and reporting for regulatory compliance, banks can also improve operational efficiency, hone their competitive advantage, and mitigate risk.

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 | Published: 29 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover why stakeholder collaboration is one of the keys to forecasting accuracy.

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 | Published: 05 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details a Gartner research study that analyzes the lack of attention to XBRL and IFRS projects by IT organizations and details recommendations for improving disclosure management strategies.

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 | Published: 31 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details on the relationship between financial reporting and business intelligence. Learn more about how applying new disclosure management technology to financial reporting can extend the value of existing BI tools.

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 | Published: 30 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the processes involved in a company's extended financial close process, the problems associated with a manual effort, and the benefits of using an integrated and automated single-platform solution for Financial Close Management (FCM).

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 | Published: 29 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: A well thought out financial process provides your decision makers with the most up-to-date, accurate data and information whenever they need it. This paper outlines the benefits of a properly designed and implemented financial process.

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 | Published: 02 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: Today's tools and technologies for analyzing data enable individual users to access the reporting results they need instead of relying on a financial team to disperse data conclusions. Read this white paper to learn how these tools work and eight steps to help your departments leverage these technologies to gain key information from your data.

Posted: 04 Sep 2012 | Published: 04 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to find five tips to simplify your financial consolidation process.

Posted: 01 Sep 2012 | Published: 28 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: This Economist Intelligence Unit white paper looks into how companies are ascending the maturity curve of effective management of enterprise risk and compliance and demonstrates that a unified approach can actually help reduce costs – and optimize business performance.

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn why among leading organizations there is an increasing recognition of the value of using unified enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions to measure, manage, and monitor their financial and nonfinancial performance

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 | Published: 04 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This brief paper discusses one option for disclosure management and how it is designed to support a collaborative approach to document production, enhance productivity and establish process visibility into the Last Mile of finance.

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 | Published: 08 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this brief paper and learn how IBM Cognos can lead finance teams into the next generation by offering driver-based budgeting with vastly shorter planning cycles, flexible rolling forecasts, faster and more reliable financial close and consolidation, tighter control over operational performance, swifter reporting capabilities and so much more.

Posted: 10 May 2012 | Published: 14 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper and learn why automating The Last Mile of Finance can enable your organization to meet evolving requirements and reduce risk without increasing your costs. Gain insight into why upgrading your Last Mile processes is essential to remaining in line with regulatory reporting and compliance initiatives.

Posted: 09 May 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission has forced organizations that file reports with it to automate most of the steps, leading most companies purchase software that helps them do so. This paper by Ventana Research explains the value of automated tagging software and how implementing such a strategy can lead to an elevated ROI.

Posted: 09 May 2012 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: To improve and coordinate decision-making across all of its departments, the Australian pie and pastry producer Mrs. Mac's knew it needed to give its staff effective tools to share and cross-reference clear and accurate data from a trusted source. Read this case study to learn about the business intelligence (BI) software that Mrs. Mac's chose.

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 | Published: 03 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Traditional procurement and financial analytics practices lack the visibility today's businesses need, and can lead to millions of wasted dollars. Check out this paper to learn about an innovative financial analytics tool that can help monitor and analyze purchase data to ensure prices and contracts are being met.

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 | Published: 21 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: Modern financial software enables business to collaborate with visibility, reliability, and accountability in a controlled environment. This paper explains the issues with spreadsheet budgeting and helps business find better financial software for easy long-term planning.

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 | Published: 19 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the results of a budgeting survey aimed at discovering the most significant budgeting, forecasting, and reporting issues troubling today’s CFOs.

Posted: 29 May 2012 | Published: 29 May 2012