Author: Peter Chisambara
Risk Management
Rethinking and Elevating the Status of Risk Management
Enterprise risk management (ERM) is at the heart of effective decision making and should be at the forefront of everybody’s thinking within the organization. Today’s risk-filled macroeconomic environment requires front-line employees, middle management, senior executives and the board to take a proactive approach in managing the various risks the business is exposed to. Risks are read more
Enterprise Performance
Data Analytics and the FP&A Function
Technological advancements in Big Data and Analytics are having a significant impact on the business’s operating model and strategic performance. Many companies are already exploring how best they can adopt big data and analytics technologies to improve their businesses, reduce costs, streamline processes, improve marketing initiatives, and pursue future profits. In the majority of these read more
Enterprise Performance
Finance Transformation: From History Keepers to Future Story Tellers
The traditional role of the finance function is that of ensuring accurate processing, accounting and reporting of financial transactions. However, in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous economic environment, reporting on the past is no longer enough. New advanced technologies are disrupting business models at the speed of lightning. For example, digital innovations such as read more
5 Ways Finance Can Help Improve Company Profitability
Businesses in various industrial sectors are undergoing a fundamental transformation as a result
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Transforming Finance Into a Strategic Function
There has never been an interesting time to be in finance than now.
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Embracing Risk for Improved Business Performance
Barings Bank rogue trader (1995), LTCM hedge fund failure (1998), Enron bankruptcy (2001),
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Improving Finance’s Financial Planning & Analysis Capabilities
As the role of the finance function continues to evolve from reporting on
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Creating A Value-Adding Finance Function
As the demand on CFOs to provide real-time analytical insights, support senior management
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Minimizing Risks of Outsourcing Failure
As the challenge on CFOs and other business leaders to do more with
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