REPORT ANALYSIS ON ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL SOFTWARE...

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• Access Accounting
• Armstrong Consultants
• COA Solutuions
• CODA
• dhc
• Eclipse Group
• Infor
• IRIS
• LSA Solutions
• Nolan Computers
• PS Financials
• SAP
• Sapphire Systems
• TechnologyOne

Accounting & Financial Reporting Software - Latest Report - April 2008
Supply Chain & Manufacturing Systems - March 2008
Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence & CPM February 2008
HR & Payroll Management Systems - January 2008
IT Infrastructure, Security & Business Continuity - November 2007
ERP Solutions - October 2007
Enterprise Integration, SOA & Web Services - September 2007
Workflow, BPM, Content & Document Management - July 2007
CRM, Call Centre & Marketing Systems - June 2007
Project Portfolio Management & PSA Software - May 2007

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Accounting & Financial Reporting Software
Conspectus April 2008 - Summary

The pressure to provide enhanced insight into business performance is leading the finance function to adopt more sophisticated software tools to improve financial reporting.

Meanwhile, growing regulation means their systems need to store and retrieve information more effectively so compliance can be easily demonstrated.

So how do finance professionals deal with the twin burden of regulation while carving out enough time to proactively manage their own departments and strategically support the business?

One conclusion by this issue’s consultant authors – including Atos, Crystal and Peapod Consulting – is that they must take an integrated approach to their role.

Market Overview & Analysis
Regulation, offshoring, shared services. What software tools and strategies are helping the finance function deal with their growing business pressures? Cliff Mills reports on our latest in-depth user research.
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Expert Opinion
Independent consultant Mark Cracknell outlines a strategy for finance professionals to survive the current economic uncertainty.
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View from the Top
Faced with rapid expansion, construction machinery supplier Holt JCB went for a new financial system to control all its business processes. We speak to its financial director Richard Briere.
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MiFID: Surviving or Thriving?
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) aims to make Europe a more attractive market for investors. Yet Atos Consulting believes too many firms are dragging their heels in dealing with the opportunities it offers.
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United Front
The growing scale and cost of financial regulation requires finance managers to adopt an integrated approach to how they address and measure compliance, says Robin Hollington of Peapod Consulting.
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Counting the Costs
Activity based cost management (ABCM) attracts strongly diverging views – from whole-hearted support to its dismissal as a costly, time-consuming and unnecessary additional expense. Alan Haines of Crystal Consulting analyses the pros and cons.
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In Search of the Truth
Building on a study of 1,200 senior finance executives, IBM’s Bill Fuessler and Steve Rogers show how an integrated approach to organisational ‘truth’ can help CFOs lead the fight against escalating business risk.
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