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• Making It Pay

  BNET - 2005-08-17

  Financial services companies face an unrelenting challenge to lower their cost base and streamline operations to keep pace in today's competitive and unforgiving world markets. With margins shrinking and customers wary, senior executives must focus all their energies on what can lift their businesses above the pack and deliver shareholder...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial Service, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance

• Technology Is a Tool

  BNET - 2005-05-02

  Technology is creating choices for taxpayers. These choices result in faster, less expensive processing and quicker refunds: a major benefit to both the taxpayer and the revenue agency. However, as this paper concludes advances in technology must also be coupled with ongoing employee training to obtain the maximum effect. In...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Technology, Tool, Productivity, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance

• Financial Performance Management and Profitability

  BNET - 2005-03-18

  Finding ways to manage profitability more effectively is a cornerstone of financial performance management. The paper asserts that CFOs can drive initiatives that will enhance corporate profitability in ways that go beyond the traditional 'bean counter' approaches. Today's approach to profitability management involves using more insight to uncover both unnecessary...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial, Profitability, Financial Accounting, Finance

• Financial Performance Management Research Agenda

  BNET - 2005-01-21

  The article states the key objective of Performance Management is to optimize business processes while aligning them with the organization's strategy. Finance organizations play a strategic role in managing the performance of a company. The article focuses on four major research topics in 2005: redefining finance department processes (including reporting...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance

• Consolidating With Compliance

  BNET - 2004-12-10

  Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act will force companies to make fundamental changes in their financial processes to regain efficiency lost in a more formal control environment. Legal and financial consolidation is one area ripe for change. This article asserts companies can and should shift from traditional bottoms-up, sequential consolidation...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial, Compliance, Financial Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley, Finance, Regulations, Government

• Planning and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

  BNET - 2004-04-21

  Planning and budgeting does not play an explicit role in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but this article expects auditors will pay closer attention to this function once companies pass the initial round of section 404 certification for two reasons. First, companies that execute the forecasting, planning and review cycle typically have a...

  Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Montgomery Research Inc., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Section 404, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

• Finance And Infrastructure: Competitive Advantage Or Performance Drag?

  BNET - 2004-04-15

  Postal organizations, whether measured in terms of revenues, employees, supply chain complexity, retail presence, or real estate holdings, are ranked among the largest in their respective countries. Not surprisingly, so are their finance organizations and the IT infrastructure necessary to support such large and geographically dispersed organizations. This article addresses...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Supply Chain, Performance, Competitive Advantage, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Finance, Management

• Compliance - Process and Technology

  BNET - 2003-09-23

  The intent of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act framers was to force companies to ensure that their financial reporting systems did what they were always supposed to do. For this reason, complying with the law has focused CFOs on examining and documenting processes and changing them as necessary. This paper supports the...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial Reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Document Management, Regulatory Compliance, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Financial Planning, Regulations, Groupware, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

• Process-Based Approach to Compliance

  BNET - 2003-09-23

  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOA was designed to send a message to business that corruption will no longer be tolerated in any form, and companies are getting the message. In addition to regulations that require CEOs and CFOs to certify their financial statements, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued tighter...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial, Compliance, Financial Accounting, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Financial Statements, Sarbanes-Oxley, Finance, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Regulations, Government

• Transaction Profitability Analysis

  BNET - 2003-09-23

  New software links the impact of each transaction to the cost of related operations, the revenue generated, the customer, the channel, and other operationally relevant information. Finance is often not part of operating discussions. Too often, this is because finance is not operationally relevant. Financial information is too dated and...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial, Analysis, Financial Information, Financial Accounting, Finance