Managing your company’s financials is the backbone of your business and is vital to the long-term health and viability of your company. Yet attention to your bottom line often takes a back seat during times of increasing revenues and growth. To continue applying the necessary financial rigor to support rapid growth,...
Published: Apr 03, 2019
Businesses are busy growing right now, and they’re more optimistic than they’ve been in the past 35 years, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). Job creation, expansion plans and increased compensation all hit record high levels in October 2018.
If your company isn’t...
Published: Apr 03, 2019
Fintech startups have led a wave of innovation in the financial sector in recent years. New companies, built on modern technologies, have quickly captured market share from older, more established businesses.
As investment in fintech startups continues to rise, competition is also increasing as companies expand into...
Published: May 31, 2019
This briefing paper examines the key issues, drivers and challenges that businesses face in achieving and exploiting a single view of their customers. The cornerstone of a single customer view is the ability to identify all the accounts and products held by a customer. Every customer wants to be treated as an individual...
Published: Dec 16, 2011
As modern finance professionals, we face the most challenging conditions for decades as we strive to be better business partners.
The "Future of Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting" 2017 FSN Survey, in collaboration with Workday, explains how to deliver dependable business forecasts, optimise...
Published: Mar 16, 2018
The potential of big data is nothing new to marketers. The realisation that ever-increasing amounts of customer generated information can have a massive and positive impact on marketing has now coalesced into the concept of the Single Customer View (SCV) and the vision that marketers can truly understand their customers...
Published: Nov 26, 2012
In this white paper we will look over the reasons why brands need to profile their consumers, how they can do it and then run through some practical examples.
Published: Dec 29, 2014
Look at any great leader from history — in business, sport, military or any other industry — and you’ll notice a wealth of distinctive character traits, from strength and determination to intelligence and eloquence.
But which traits are common to all great leaders? There’s no need to guess...
Published: Dec 01, 2015
Auditing shouldn’t take your attention away from driving strategy and profitability. With a single cloud-based system for finance, you get compliance, controls, and audit capabilities all in one place. This streamlines the auditing processes and ensures security. Focus on business and let Workday do the rest.
Published: Sep 13, 2018
Educate, communicate, demonstrate, accentuate. These are the four steps that accountants can take in order to successfully sell auto enrolment services to clients. This guide will cover the ways that you can make the most of each step.
Published: Apr 12, 2015
Finance leaders must reckon with risk and what this means today is very different from what it meant even a year ago.
Explore this study by Dun & Bradstreet targeting senior finance professionals on a global scale across various industries to discover how these modern finance professionals are using data to navigate...
Published: Jun 02, 2017
Increased regulatory focus and rising interest rates mean lenders need to revisit their measures of affordability ahead of changes. Accurately assessing both customers’ affordability and suitability are essential requirements for all lenders who wish to extend credit responsibly whilst minimising their risk exposure....
Published: Sep 09, 2014
From financial guardian to strategic partner and key adviser on the future direction of the business: the role of the senior Finance Leader, from CFO to financial director, has come a long way in a short space of time.
Occupying a unique role at the heart of the organisation, it's little wonder that so many organisations...
Published: Jun 02, 2017
Globalisation, increasing competition, the constant need to expand revenue bases while cutting costs— aka doing more with less—are among the many changes significantly impacting industries such as distribution, manufacturing, and services.
If that’s also true of your business, then it may be...
Published: Feb 12, 2018