Live Events & Webcasts
What is the Shape of YOUR next ICFR / SOX Deficiency?
69% major corporations have had one or more significant audit deficiencies in the last 2 years.
Financial control and IT control deficiencies remain a major challenge. Despite huge investments in digitization, the problem isn’t going away.… Read More
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In 2020/2021, SSCs are no longer transactional, back-office entities. They are the engine of a successful organization, constantly evolving, diversifying and adding strategic and tactical business value.
Alongside the many other leaders, our CEO and founder, Dan French, will be talking at the Shared Services & Outsourcing Week Winter Europe 2021.… Read More
2020 threw everyone a curved ball with often deadly and economically detrimental consequence. This Online Summit for Leaders in Shared Services examines the fallout from Covid-19 and its impact on shared services. We will examine the strangely positive, and the potentially damaging, and address how our long-term plans are altered.… Read More
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80% of companies claim disappointment with the results of their P2P technology investments.
Source to Pay (S2P) and Purchase to Pay (P2P) rightly get focused attention as processes that can benefit from digitization. This attention is focused with the hope of achieving a particular “aspiration state” for the S2P and P2P process, that typically includes one or more of the following;
While data is a critical asset for any business, Master Data is the engine of efficiency and effectiveness. Master Data drives transactional processes and is at the core of the Shared Services or Global Business Services model.
Debra R Richardson has helped set up Shared Services functions for the $130bn behemoth that is Verizon, and others, and has focused her career on master data governance, especially Vendor Master Data.
As a multi-function Global Business Services Leader, Steve Fox knows a thing or two about global business processes and “managing with data”.
But even he agrees that these challenging aspirations in major businesses, even at a time when this is a critical pre-condition for greater digitization and transformation.… Read More
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Following on from our highly successful S/4HANA enabled Transformation webcast with Dr Hermann Schuster, Chief Digital Officer at Arlanxeo, this webcast aimed to dig deeper and answer the question: “how do we digitize risk management and control to respond to working model, agility, speed and cost demands accelerated by COVID?”… Read More
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“The sudden rise in focus on attestation over user access is linked to the fact that PCAOB Audit Firm Inspections last year were very hot on this issue and so external audit firms have been taking a firm line on this with their clients, which in turn means the clients are getting audit issues raised where they might not have done before.”… Read More
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