1 From Complexity to Simplicity
What Issues are Today's CFOs Grappling With?
Best Practices in Finance: What's Next?
The New Finance Value Proposition
Integration: What it Means for You as CFO
CFO Checklist
2 Leveraging your ERP Investment
What does Integration Mean for the CFO?
Unravelling System Spaghetti
Beyond ERP
Reducing Complexity
AVision for the Post ERP Era
Making Integration Work for You
CFO Checklist
3 Streamlining the Financial Supply Chain
What is the Financial Supply Chain?
Leveraging the Benefits
In-house Cash and Banking
Order-to-cash/Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment
Purchase-to-pay
Simplifying Billing and Payment: Bill Consolidation
e-Financing and e-Settlement: A Promising New Tool
The Future: Integration and Collaboration
CFO Checklist
4 Moving from "Shared" to "Managed" Services
Why Move to Shared Services?
Shared Services Today
Physical versus Virtual SSCs: The Lights Are Still On[
To Outsource - or Not to Outsource?
Evolving Technology: What's New, Faster, Better
Applications Management and Managed Services
Evolving Exchanges: Huge Promise and Tough Reality
The Potential for Web Services
Making it Happen
CFO Checklist
5 Connecting Strategy with Operations
Introducing Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM)
Tracking Corporate Performance
Integrated Risk Management
Blow Up the Budget!
Operational Planning and Simulation
Business Consolidation and Integration
Implementing Integrated SEM
CFO Checklist
6 Analytics: Converting Data into Action
Broader Bottom-line Demands
Integrated Analytics: Transforming Data into Decisions
Increasing Customer Value through Analytics
Bringing Anatyties to Supply Chain Management
Analytics: Transforming the Finance Function
Enriching Product Life Cycle Management (PLM)
Improving Human Resource (HR) Analytics
Getting Started: Analytics Critical Success Factors
CFO Checklist
7 Collaboration via the CFO Portal
Doubling Productivity
Choosing the Right Portal
Integration Outweighs Best-of-breed Technology
The Personalized Desktop
Why should the CFO Drive Portals?
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8 Managing Intangibles
9 Integrating for Corporate Integrity
Epilogue
Biographies
Notes
Index