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CFO Journal: At Genpact Strategy Teams With Finance to Adapt to Market Shifts
November 18, 2020
“Pre-pandemic, there was a lot of customer interest in new ERP implementations and full-scale digital transformations. Now, with resources constrained by the crisis, our client conversations are more about services that layer on top of existing ERP and on outsourcing different pieces of finance that they don’t view as core to running their business. These shifts have meant significantly changing how we go to market.”
SF Magazine: Maximizing FP&A Assets
November 17, 2020
“While FP&A has been within the management accountant’s tool kit for decades, three recent trends have elevated the importance of FP&A skills: increased access to data, the availability of new business intelligence (BI) technologies, and the greater role of finance as a strategic partner.”
SF Magazine: Strategic Life-Cycle Analysis: The Role of the CFO
November 16, 2020
“Any accounting-based control system, however useful at higher levels in the organization for ROI measurement, confronts a “crossover” problem at lower levels in the organization where process (not accounting) variables are the logical measurement tools to facilitate productivity gains. So, there is a need to have an in-house learning culture for the finance organization in order to make steady progress in dealing with company-specific performance measurement issues related to intangible assets.”
CFO Dive: Zero-based budgeting makes a comeback, but it’s different this time
November 14, 2020
“A ZBB-like review of expenses can lead to better analysis of the activities that support the customer,” Bryan Lapidus said. “This could be a huge value-add to the business by helping to assess profitability of products and services accurately, and be more meaningful than simply reading down the list of contracts in a general ledger.”
