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• 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

• The Financial Impact of an Emergency Department Information System

  BNET - 2004-06-29

  Emergency department information systems EDIS are appearing in more and more emergency departments EDs, and their many features make them useful tools. The cost of these systems can impact purchasing and implementation decisions; determining their prospective ROI, however, can be difficult. This white paper shows that implementing an EDIS can...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Information System, Financial, ROI, Emergency Department Information Systems, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting

• Financial Implications of CPM

  BNET - 2003-09-29

  This article describes how corporate performance management offers more perceptiveness and agility to enterprises that have already attained a cohesive infrastructure. Many enterprises have lost the ability to manage themselves. The organizational size and digital complexity now often mask the linkage between a business decision and its operational consequences. And...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial, Business Intelligence, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

• 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

• Connecting the Physical and Financial Supply Chains: A Powerful Value Proposition

  BNET - 2002-05-16

  This article describes us that how we can improve the physical and the financial supply chains.Companies today invest large amounts of capital and human resources attempting to wring the last bit of inefficiency out of their physical supply chains. At the same time, they're investing millions on solutions to streamline...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial, Financial Accounting, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Finance, Enterprise Software, Software

• Questioning the Future for Outsourcing the Financial Supply Chain

  BNET - 2002-01-10

  This paper covers issues facing corporations, services available in the current market, and attempts to identify future directions where the market may evolve. In looking to solve these issues there is no single and integrated model currently available. Outsourcing is an obvious alternative in moving toward more efficient models. Read...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• Sarbanes-Oxley and BPM: Selecting Software That Will Enhance Compliance

  BNET

  Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act became law in 2002, companies have been scrambling to update their financial reporting processes. Forward-looking businesses have turned to BPM systems to facilitate ongoing compliance. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX went into effect in July 2002; since then, it has had a far-reaching and complex impact on...

  Tags: Software, Montgomery Research Inc., Financial Reporting, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, BPM, Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Financial Planning, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, It Operations, Business Operations