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Winning on a Tight Budget
The Tampa Bay Rays are successful despite a low budget, and their team-oriented formula can be a model for other businesses.
Profitability Analytics
The profitability analytics model enables management accountants to move beyond traditional FP&A reporting requirements.
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The People Side of FP&A
Managing FP&A requires understanding the business, technical and communication skills, and effective working relationships.
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Digital Manufacturing and the CFO
Manufacturing CFOs need to adapt and evolve their practices to remain competitive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Navigating the Hazards of your Strategic Journey
Implementing a strategy is like taking a road trip. You need to have a clear goal and a map that will get you there.
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Celebrate Change
Change is the only constant, and IMA continues to adapt as well as provide resources and community to help you keep up.
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Books: Cost-Conscious Innovation
In "Costovation," Stephen Wunker and Jennifer Luo Law present a map for innovation based on lower-cost solutions.
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Survey: Financial Services Challenges
A report from Vuealta identifies the greatest challenges financial services companies expect to face in the next several years.
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Projecting the Special Value of the Deal
Companies must dive deep to ensure they don’t overlook any issues when projecting the value of a merger or acquisition.
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Haier’s Win-Win Value Added Approach
A new user-centric focus provides large appliance manufacturer Haier with a broader platform for creating value.
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Greater Challenges for CFOs in 2019
Trade wars, Brexit concerns, talent shortages, and supply chain irregularities are concerns occupying CFOs’ minds in 2019.
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Survey: Implementing ASC 842
An EY survey reports on finance and IT leaders’ strategies for adapting to the new leasing standard.
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Toward Business 2030
Move beyond business as usual and adopt a business model that links corporate purpose to performance and sustainable practices.
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Business Transformation: No Pain, No Gain?
Strong leadership and effective planning and execution can help companies execute large-scale business transformations.
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Creating Greater Long-term Sustainable Value
For superior results, ignore the pressures of short-termism and focus on strategies that lead to long-term value creation.
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Management Accounting in India
Dramatic changes in the business landscape in India provide opportunities for management accountants to influence and lead.
Tools of the Trade: April 2018
This month we look at the Samsung Galaxy S9/S9 Plus, Lenovo 300e Chromebook, Asus Zenfone 5Z, and Nokia 8110 4G.
Adapting for Digital Survival
Technology is rapidly changing the business environment. Companies need to stay ahead of the curve or risk obsolescence.
CFOs: Managing Under Uncertainty in 2018
The global economic growth outlook is positive, but uncertainty lingers around issues like Brexit, U.S tax reform, and others.
Books: Natural Laws of Success
Edward D. Hess’s short book uses the scientific method as a framework to outline commonsense growth concepts in business.
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Books: In the Black, In the Green
E. Freya Williams’s book looks at companies that are turning sustainability efforts and green initiatives into financial success.
Creating an Inventory Control Center of Excellence
Improve inventory control and reduce costs with a centralized source of subject matter experts, resources, and support.
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12 Principles of Best Practice FP&A
The best-run companies follow these 12 principles to create FP&A that helps them meet their targets and beat the competition.
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Sustainable Development Goals
Forward-thinking companies can use the U.N.’s sustainable development goals to help create greater long-term value.
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Survey: The Evolving Risk Landscape
A BDO Canada survey of 500 C-suite leaders shows what these executives fear most regarding the future of their organizations.
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Is Forecasting Destroying Your Planning Process?
Companies use too much of the planning process for forecasting instead of devising actionable plans to achieve results.
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Books: STRATEGY IN A COMPETITIVE MARKET
Joan Magretta’s delves into the ideas and concepts underlying Michal Porter’s frameworks for strategy in business.
The Power of Intangibles
Current financial accounting and reporting need to expand to better capture intangible assets beyond the balance sheet.
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Controllers: Get Strategic!
According to Deloitte, 91.2% of organizations anticipate a more central, strategic role for controllers in the future.
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Books: Strategy for Business Advantage
Richard D’Aveni presents a strategy for the United States to regain its advantage in a hypercompetitive global landscape.
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Survey: New Concerns About Foreign Operations?
An IMA survey looks at the impact that recent political changes might have on business operations outside the United States.
Books: Boardroom in Balance
This framework for aligning the board of directors and C-suite can lead to improved performance that benefits all stakeholders.
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2017: What’s Ahead for CFOs?
In a time of political and economic uncertainty, leading CFOs share the risks their organizations might face in the coming year.
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Survey: Global Warming
An IMA survey looks at the changes companies are making to meet the challenges associated with climate change.
Managing Healthcare Costs and Value
An insightful examination of the best ways for healthcare providers to better measure and manage costs and value.
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Top 2017 Risks
More than 730 board members and executives reported on the top risks their organizations will face in 2017.
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Books: FOLLOW THE BPI YELLOW BRICK ROAD
The Power of Business Improvement, by Susan Page, provides a step-by-step road map for business process improvement.
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Are You Driving Innovation Value—or Stagnating?
First understand why you’re innovating before worrying about how. Then use a three-stage model of Architect, Execute, and Optimize.
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Brexit: CFO Perspectives
The Brexit adds uncertainty for companies that operate in the U.K. and EU, potentially creating new risks and opportunities.
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21st Century Sustainability
For companies to survive and thrive in the coming years, they need to view sustainability as a major driver of innovation.
Secrets to Successful M&A
Get better results with a thorough understanding of the human capital involved and plans to address people-associated risks.
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Why Innovation Should Be Every CFO’s Top Priority
A strategic CFO is able to manage the present while focusing innovation efforts on creating value for the future.
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The PHILIPS Journey Toward IBCS
Philips is implementing company-wide visualization reporting standards, leading to productivity gains and greater insights.
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Risk Management: It’s What We Do!
Fully integrate risk management into your core management accounting practices.
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Bob Kaplan, Distinguished Advocate
Jeff Thomson sits down with the recent IMA Distinguished Advocate Award recipient to catch up on Kaplan’s latest activities.
How Controllers Become Business Partners
Controllers can advance their organizational role by delivering insight, gaining buy-in, and elevating the skills within the company.
Leaning Away from Standard Costing
For Lean companies, value stream costing and work-cell metrics provide a better alternative for managing production control.
The Intersection of HR and Accounting
Align the efforts of HR and Accounting by incorporating the role of employees into the business strategy.
Work Less, Play More…Get Results
Gamification can help train employees, engage customers, and achieve organizational goals.
Get in Gear!
Finance, HR, and IT can work together to break out of silos and transform the administrative services within an organization.
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WHAT’S KEEPING CFOS AWAKE AT NIGHT IN 2016?
Some old, familiar themes are again at the forefront of CFOs’ concerns this year.
CAN CONTRARY OPINIONS ENSURE M&A SUCCESS?
An active board of directors that solicits independent contrary opinions can help avoid disastrous results.
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Survey: HOPE FOR 2016
TD Bank’s annual CFO Survey finds some optimistic outlooks for 2016.
BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION AND THE CFO
The authors of The Innovation Paradox explain how your company can act like a Startup Corporation to achieve breakthrough innovation.
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Advancing Innovation: What’s Your Role?
Create the optimal innovation elixir for your business.
Collective Genius and Innovation
Linda Hill, author and Harvard Business School professor, discusses what it takes to be a great innovation leader.
A SYSTEM OF GROWTH
The “String of Pearls” system for implementing strategy helped turn a struggling company into a leader in its industry.
Broken Budgets?
Transform the planning, budgeting, and forecasting practices in your company into powerful tools for better decision making and strategy execution.
Nonstop Risk
Companies face a variety of different risks around the world. Identification and assessment remain critical components to success.
Establish a Risk Challenge Culture
Your organization’s risk management plans should include nine essential elements that challenge the status quo.
Stacked in Your Favor
COSO and ISO RM/IC frameworks can help manufacturers succeed.
Book Review: ORGANIZATIONS THAT LEARN
To become a High-Performance Learning Organization requires the right mix of people, processes, and environment.
BOOK REVIEW: Planning for Turbulence
Preparation and monitoring mean survival.
ERM and Sustainability: Together on the Road Ahead
Integrating your sustainability and ERM processes provides a framework for a viable long-term strategy.
WHAT’S IN YOUR LEADERSHIP TOOLBOX?
Six key competencies can help you and your team develop exceptional financial leadership abilities.
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