Financial Metrics

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: 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: Access this white paper to discover how you can improve business management through the application and adherence of budgeting and planning best practices. Read on to learn the twelve best practices that have been adopted by leading companies.

Posted: 01 Feb 2013 | Published: 01 Feb 2013

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

WEBCAST: This vodcast explains why it is crucial for businesses to integrate their HR and financial performance data and offers tips about cloud and SaaS solutions.

Posted: 08 Nov 2012 | Premiered: Nov 8, 2012

PRODUCT DEMO: This product demonstration shows how a unified cloud solution can integrate strategic HR decisions with the financial actions of a business.

Posted: 08 Nov 2012 | Premiered: 08 Nov 2012

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: While current technologies and techniques allow for more sophisticated and effective approaches to counterparty risk management than those that fell short in 2008, there are still barriers to successful adoption that will require organizational changes. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Based on interviews with CFOs and senior finance executives at six leading international companies, this report presents the strategies they are using to infuse flexibility into their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in order to detect and address the constantly changing market realities of today's stubbornly volatile global economy.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of how Thunderhead customers have achieved truly revolutionary ROI by streamlining their communications processes through the implementation of the Thunderhead Enterprise Communications platform.

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 | Published: 08 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This study of over 150 Fortune 1000 firms from every major industry or vertical explores issues associated with the lifeblood of today’s enterprises: data. The findings demonstrate the often dramatic impacts that even marginal investments in information technology can have when that technology addresses data quality, usability, and intelligence.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

PRODUCT DEMO: Financial messages must be validated before being sent across any network for financial data exchange or they may be delayed or rejected. Informatica minimizes these risks with message validation, part of its B2B Data. Use the provided links here to test Informatica SWIFT Validation.

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 | Premiered: 14 Jun 2010

ANALYST REPORT: The ARRA was enacted to jumpstart the US economy and drive it out of the recession. One of the requirements of the recovery act is that organizations that receive funds for projects must report on the outcomes of those projects. Read on to learn what these executives and managers plan to do to meet the reporting and compliance mandates.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the reporting challenges faced by organizations and examines the many benefits of automated U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) reporting systems.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008

WHITE PAPER: Real Estate and Workplace industry metrics and studies strongly suggest that hidden value on the balance sheet can reside within real estate and workplace assets.

Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | Published: 15 Jan 2009