Pragmatic RiskInsights
Risk Management
Embracing Risk for Improved Business Performance
Barings Bank rogue trader (1995), LTCM hedge fund failure (1998), Enron bankruptcy (2001), Parmalat accounting fraud (2003), AIG accounting scandal (2005), Lehman Brothers bankruptcy(2008), Bennie Madoff ponzi scheme (2008), Toyota unintended acceleration recalls (2009) , BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010), Fukushima tsunami and nuclear accident (2011), Libor-fixing scandal (2012), JP Morgan $14.6 billion regulatory read more
Strategy
Differentiating Your Company’s Products or Services
Have you ever wondered why your customers keep on buying your products or requesting your services? Why they are willing to pay more for some of the products and services and less for the others? Could it because you are the only supplier in the area? If so, suppose a new company in the same read more
Enterprise Performance
Improving Finance’s Financial Planning & Analysis Capabilities
As the role of the finance function continues to evolve from reporting on what happened in the past to driving business performance and creating enterprise value, the function’s financial planning and analysis capabilities need to be improved. More than ever, increased volatility and uncertainty is placing considerable pressure on finance leaders to support business decision-makers read more
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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Strategy Development: Seeing the Bigger Picture
In addition to performing their traditional financial reporting roles, today’s financial executives are
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Factoring Risks into Financial Forecasts and Planning
VUCA, short for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity is an acronym used to
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Not All Customers Are Profitable And Worth Keeping
Not all customers are the same. Some customers are profitable and others less
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Producing Reliable Forecasts That Improve Decision-Making
Although almost every organization uses forecasts to predict and manage future business performance,
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