It is generally accepted that organisations lose between 3—5% of their annual cost base to error, waste and fraud (according to many sources, including ACFE). There is much evidence that the cost of inefficiency is in fact higher. The …
Control of Access to Corporate Applications has always been a key part of good governance practice. With the scope and number of systems increasing within organisations, user populations increasing, application related risks becoming more evident, greater remote and mobile working, …
Another two large bribery and corruption scandals, involving major companies who violated FCPA regulations have been reported in recent weeks. You would be forgiven for thinking that cases like these would be consigned to history by now, given the better …
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“Excel: We can’t live without it, yet we are fast coming to the realisation that we can’t live with it either…” Robert Gothan, Financial Director.
When it works, Excel is an incredibly powerful, simple yet sophisticated tool. However, when it …
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“The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be” (in the finance function!)
The champion baseball player, Yogi Berra, who died this year, left a great legacy in his pearls of unwitting philosophic wisdom.
A fitting way to set the tone …
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Our COO, Hans van Nes, attended the recent SAP sponsored Governance, Risk and Compliance conference (GRC2015) in Nice, France. His review forms the latest guest post, and I am reliably informed that the title refers to observations from the conference …
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PwC’s Global Finance Benchmark Report 2015 is the latest in a series of reports for finance leaders and is an excellent combination of a status update on the changes in the role, performance, governance, structure and mandate for the finance …
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Continuous Controls Monitoring, Transaction Monitoring and Data Analytics are all related terms for techniques that help assure the operation of core business processes and identify exceptions to policy or expected norms to help drive incremental improvement. Some organisations have had …
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On the heels of capabilities for finance and ERP applications such as SAP ECC, HANA, SRM, CRM, Oracle R12, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Lawson, SunSystems, Microsoft Dynamics and Infor LN. Consider Solutions share their experiences and capabilities for continuous monitoring and …
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Arguably the cost of the typical finance function has halved over the last two decades, during which time expectations from the business have almost doubled. A series of transformation programs have implemented ERP systems, established shared services centres (SSCs) …
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