Digitally transforming your finance function
How to make small and constant digital changes to ensure finance success.
Finance function effectiveness
Produce an efficient finance team
In this section
Articles and features
Tips to transform your finance team
Innovation tools to assist in changing your Finance team.
The changing role of treasury
Delving into the role of a Treasurer and how to get the best from them
The champ: how CFOs fuel growth
Finance professionals are expected to come equipped with skills to support risk-taking in business
Reports
The finance function: A framework for analysis
How does your finance function compare and how do you deal with the inherent tensions we highlight?
Finance in the broadest sense
Building effective finance functions is a key concern of organisations and finance professionals. At a time when many claim we face unprecedented challenges, Stanley Harding's 1963 lecture on the finance function reminds us that there are many lessons we can learn from history. This report reproduces the lecture in full and complements it with expert commentary.
Finance transformation
The authors share their expertise on service level agreements, people management, and innovation and technology.
Webinars and recordings
Future proof your finance function
How will engagement with technology and process automation affect the finance function in future?
Effective business partnering
A webinar for business partners on the finance function and how to contribute more to your company.
How is digital transforming business?
The 2013 PD Leake Lecture was given by Professors Al Bhimani and Leslie Willcocks of the London School of Economics.
ebooks
Outsourcing
Looks at the fundamentals for outsourcing success and offers examples of good practice throughout the outsourcing lifecycle.
Art of successful information systems outsourcing, The
Provides advice for dealing with information systems outsourcing on a practical level.
Outsourcing handbook: to implement a successful outsourcing process, The
Outsourcing best practice guide for managers.
CFO insights: enabling high performance through leading practices for finance ERP
Examines the end-to-end business processes that enable leading practices in finance.
CFO insights: achieving high performance through finance business process outsourcing
This title gives practical advice and strategies for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and answers questions that CFOs may have.
Industry press
The Changing roll of the CFO: being the leader of the finance function is more complicated than ever.
Article looks at two CFOs who discuss how their role has changed, particularly with reference to technology and robotic p[process automation.
Driving digital finance
The article discusses the role of the accounting and finance team in achieving digital transformation to help companies succeed.
Internal audit: in-house versus outsourcing
The article looks at the impact of outsourcing of the internal audit function on the effectiveness of the process or the level of independence and objectivity of the audit. Topics covered include importance of effective internal audit as demonstrated by the failure of Carillion, advantages of outsourcing internal audit such as credibility and cost-effectiveness, potential disadvantages like lack of permanent on-site resource and the pros and cons of in-house internal audit. * For the full article please contact the Library *
Outsourcing in HR
A discussion of the trend in outsourcing human resource (HR) management services by companies in Great Britain. Topics include the uptake in outsourcing, the drop in the value of new outsourcing contracts, and the factors that drive HR outsourcing decisions.