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- The Fast Close: Are We There Yet?
- Efficient financial reporting sends a positive sign to investors and other stakeholders and is a key ingredient to a comprehensive enterprise performance management process. And along with goal setting, modeling, planning, continuous performance monitoring, and analysis, such reporting can improve a company's ability to spot business opportunities and efficiently allocate...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Oracle Corp., Performance Management, Research & Development, Operational Planning, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Public Power Corporation Optimizes Value of Software Investments and Ensures Rapid financial reporting
- Public Power Corporation wanted to optimize the value of Public Power Corporation's strategic investment in Oracle Database and Oracle applications by ensuring fast and smooth upgrades to new versions of the software and maintain high availability of Oracle Financials for the company's more than 2,000 users of the software. The...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Oracle Corp., Financial, Oracle Financials, Investment, Power Corporation, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Finance, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Best Practices Under Audit Standard 5
- With the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX in 2002, companies have had to dramatically ramp up regulatory compliance efforts. Based on the guidance they received, companies began factoring a compliance check list into almost every process. Controls were designed to cover every possible source of financial reporting fraud. As...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Audit, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Oversight Systems, Best Practice, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Government, Finance
- White papers 2007-10-23
- financial reporting Dashboards - Click-Through Demo (msi)
- Financial Reporting Dashboards - Click-Through Demo is a portable, interactive demo that closely simulates the UI and functionality of an actual solution. Installs to your Start menu and includes a presenter script. Scenario Summary: Enterprise financial information is often housed in accounting, customer relationship management CRM, and other line-of-business systems....
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-09-20
- Frigoglass Accelerates financial reporting and Enhances Sales Analysis
- Frigoglass is the world's leading manufacturer and solutions provider of Ice Cold Merchandisers ICM, with operations in 14 countries across Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, India, China, and Indonesia. Headquartered in Athens, Greece, the company achieved revenues of US$540 million in FY2006, an increase of nearly 31% over the previous...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Oracle Corp., Financial, Sales, Frigoglass, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- The Stanley Works Increases Productivity and Enhances financial reporting Capabilities
- The Stanley Works is known worldwide as a leading manufacturer of tools, hardware, and specialty hardware products for home improvement, consumer, industrial, and professional use. A long-time customer of Oracle's Hyperion software, The Stanley Works wanted to implement a Web-based data delivery system that would allow for the transmission of...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Financial, Stanley Works, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- Banco de Drogas Antineoplasicas (BADAN): Reliable financial reporting Enables Non-Profit Expansion
- BADAN wanted to make antineoplastic medication used to inhibit or prevent the development of tumors more affordable for communities in Venezuela, but it realized that its IT systems and manual financial reporting processes were holding it back. BADAN's ability to gather sales and financial information was also problematic. Limited availability...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, IBM Corp., BADAN, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2007-07-29
- 404: not founded in reality?
- Sarbanes-Oxley has proven itself to be a terrific money maker for the accounting andlegal industries in the United States, but the evidence on its effectiveness as aninformation equaliser in the capital markets is ambiguous at best.Here's the soxlaw.com section 404 summary: Issuers are required to publish information in their...
- Tags: General, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Security Compliance Best Practices
- There are numerous new laws related to corporate governance, financial reporting practices, protecting personal information, counter-terrorism, and the potential for litigation. These laws impact an organization's data backup and storage requirements, electronic documentation, and overall security strategy. Plain and simple, many organizations are not prepared to comply with these laws....
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Law, Hill Associates, Financial Planning, Corporate Governance, Security, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- White papers 2007-04-30
- Freehills Adopts Integrated Microsoft System for financial reporting and Analysis System
- Leading Australian law firm Freehills faced many information challenges. The firm needed its people to make faster decisions based on accurate, up-to-date information, but they were challenged by a financial reporting system that had evolved over time and was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Freehills overhauled its core business intelligence...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Analysis, Freehills, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Cutting Costs and Saving Time at One of Australia's Largest Health Services
- Large organizations using data warehousing often confront mountains of information, making it difficult to get compelling business intelligence to employees when they need it most. Southern Health, one of Australia's largest metropolitan health services, faced this issue, and more, in attempting to streamline its financial reporting procedures. After scanning the...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Financial Reporting, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Data Management
- Case studies 2006-10-05
- XML grows up as XBRL
- XML grows up as XBRLStandardsWhen open standards are involved, protocols can flourish. So, I have no doubt this will have legs.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/Further thoughts on the XBRL taxonomies as open sourceDana Blankenhorn is absolutely correct in his conclusion that XBRL is lowering the cost of doing business which is good for companies...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Standards Bodies, XML, XBRL, taxonomy, financial reporting, financial
- Discussion threads 2006-06-23
- Planning for a Financials Implementation: How to Avoid a Nosebleed
- At many companies, it seems that they are continually implementing, re-implementing and tuning critical financial reporting applications. Financial scandals at Enron and WorldCom, the crash-and-burn of the "Internet bubble," and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have all increased the exposure and attention, both internal and external, paid to financial...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2006-03-30
- Directory File Listing Utility for Microsoft Excel (zip)
- List all files from any device including directories and subdirectories. Sort by filename, file size, file date, or path. List up to 65,000 files at a time. Export list to a new Excel worksheet. Custom toolbar, print list, complete documentation on Help tab. No installation necessary. Simply delete file to...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Financial Planning, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Finance
- Software downloads 2005-12-29
- Momentum Webcast: Transforming Your Services Beyond the Installation (Level 100)
- This webcast shows how company can maximize customer interactions to improve bottom line. This webcast highlights solutions from WennSoft, a leading provider of service and job cost solutions that help to better manage service technicians and installation jobs. WennSoft's solutions seamlessly integrate with Microsoft technologies to provide enhanced business management...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Webcast, Business Management, Microsoft Corp., WennSoft, Financial Planning, Digital Media, Strategy, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
- Webcasts 2005-12-08
- XLReporting (exe)
- XLReporting is cost efficient, flexible, and powerful financial reporting software for organizations of any type and size. It provides an ideal solution for financial reporting, group consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and sales and purchasing analysis. XLReporting is fully integrated into Microsoft Excel, which makes it easy to install, learn...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, XLReporting, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Microsoft Excel, Finance, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2005-12-07
- Connecting the dots with SOX
- First a brief summary of the Sarbane-Oxley Act. This law was passed by Congress in reaction to the exposed frauds at publicly traded companies that resulted in large losses for stockholders and the failures of many companies. Enron was the most visible of these cases. The purpose of the law...
- Tags: financial reporting, financial, Section 404
- Blog posts 2005-08-04
- How EPO Helps Companies Meet the Requirements of the Operating and Financial Review
- The Operating and Financial Review OFR represents a significant change in the way UK-listed companies report business performance. Organisations are now required to provide guidance material on external and internal risks, trends and factors that will impact their future profitability. Traditional financial reporting applications that feed the annual report take...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, On-demand, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2005-06-09
- financial reporting and Analysis: A Tactical Solution for an Age-Old Challenge - Dynamically Leverage the Capabilities of Microsoft Excel
- The organization's ability to dynamically realize its financial information in a familiar format like Excel is paramount in terms of providing C-level executives an instant and accurate picture of a company's financial anatomy. Spreadsheet solutions achieve a long-sought goal of an instant corporate financial "X-ray," easily organizing and revealing the...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Analysis, Organization, Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2005-06-07
- Hyperion financial reporting, Consolidation and Analysis for Government
- Government agencies must maintain and close their books and then report financial results with confidence. To integrate financial and operating results from multiple systems into one view - without delays, agency finance managers need "a single version of the truth." Hyperion provides government organizations with a financial reporting and analysis...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Financial, Agency, Consolidation, Government, Analysis, Financial Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Marketing
- White papers 2005-05-01
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