Enterprise Performance Management

Pixels, Performance and Profits

2012-04-17T05:00:00Z

Why CFOs in the broadcasting industry need to build a new model of performance management for a multi-platform, digital world.

Managing the Unthinkable: Scenario-Based Enterprise Performance Management

2012-04-13T05:00:00Z

As uncertainty grows, the past becomes less and less useful as a predictor of the future.

2011 Accenture High Performance Finance Study: Focus on ASEAN Region

2012-03-26T05:00:00Z

High Performance Finance Study Podcast - CXO: Alignments and Allies

2012-03-21T05:00:00Z

Listen to a podcast in which Accenture’s Paul Boulanger shares insights for the CXO from the Accenture High Performance Finance Study.

High Performance Finance Study Podcast - Finance Masters: Cost versus Growth

2012-03-21T05:00:00Z

Listen to a podcast in which Accenture’s Paul Boulanger discusses the battle between growth and cost when aiming for high-performance finance.

Predictive Analytics and Its Effect on Enterprise Performance Management Podcast

2012-02-20T06:00:00Z

Global Eyewear Company: Oracle-Based Planning and Reporting System

2012-02-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helps a leading global eyewear company implement an integrated planning solution, enabling improved budgeting and reporting.

Tying the Knot Between Risk and Performance Management

2011-04-04T05:00:00Z

Read about Accenture Integrated Risk and Performance Management Framework that is developed to help financial firms respond to the post-global financial crisis.

Enterprise Performance Management Holds the Key to High Performance

2011-03-07T06:00:00Z

The Point: Strategic Cost Management in Banking Podcast

2010-07-09T05:00:00Z

View the podcast, Accenture discusses how banking executives using strategic cost management can increase the efficiency of cost-reduction efforts.

Dynamic Business Planning for a Changing Market Podcast

2010-07-01T05:00:00Z

How do high-performance businesses manage their business planning activities to deal with a changing market?

The Future Used to be Easier: Planning for Success in Dynamic Environments

2010-06-23T05:00:00Z

Investor confidence has been severely damaged by the current economic turmoil.

Eni: Transformation of Financial Consolidation

2010-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helped Eni improve its financial processes to comply with reporting deadlines and position itself to achieve high performance.

Aftershock: Part 2: Business Transformation and New Business Models—New Management Strategies Podcast

2009-12-01T06:00:00Z

Management can lead businesses to achieve high performance with strategies that embrace business transformation, risk management, and new business models.

Aftershock: Part 1: Business Transformation and New Business Models—New Realities for Success Podcast

2009-11-01T05:00:00Z

The new business reality offers opportunities for businesses to achieve high performance closely tied to business transformation and the adoption of new business models.

How Australian CFOs are Managing and Transforming the Finance Function

2009-10-09T05:00:00Z

While Australia has escaped even a technical recession, the global economic crisis has been a wake-up call that will change the way businesses operate and the assumptions they make for years to come.

In Uncertain Times, Businesses Need Dynamic Planning to Chart the Course to High Performance

2009-07-21T05:00:00Z

In today’s economic climate, high-performance businesses will increasingly set themselves apart by their ability to quickly make smart decisions.

The CFO’s Role in Achieving Operational Excellence

2009-04-06T05:00:00Z

A report prepared by CFO Research Services in collaboration with Accenture.

Preparing for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): An Opportunity for Finance Transformation

2009-03-27T05:00:00Z

Companies in the United States and around the world face the challenge of complying with IFRS standards.

Value Creation in Consumer Goods and Services Companies

2009-01-09T06:00:00Z

A holistic enterprise performance management capability with integrated analytics that link strategy.

Managing through Challenging Times

2009-01-09T06:00:00Z

A Communications Industry Perspective

Managing in Extraordinary Times: New Choices for New Challenges Podcast

2009-01-01T06:00:00Z

Cloudy skies can conceal rays of opportunity.

Managing in Uncertain Times: Strategies and Practices for High Performance

2008-11-20T06:00:00Z

In the current economic downturn, high-performance businesses should take decisive action from a position of strength.

Great Expectations in Asia Pacific -- Summary

2008-09-30T05:00:00Z

The Asia Pacific region, with a growing economy and burgeoning population, is seen as a tremendous opportunity both for multinationals and local companies looking to expand regionally and even globally.

Globalization: A Challenge and an Opportunity for the Finance Function -- Summary

2008-08-15T05:00:00Z

The third Accenture High Performance Finance Study examines the most pressing challenges facing CFOs in the multi-polar world being created by globalization.

Two Cs in a Pod

2008-07-01T05:00:00Z

In this article, Brian McCarthy, senior executive-Finance & Performance Management, Accenture, and Mike Matheis, managing director-marketing transformation, Customer Relationship Management, Accenture, argue that the paths of chief marketing officers (CMOs) and chief financial officers (CFOs) seldom cross.

Accenture Freight and Logistics Solution

2008-05-29T05:00:00Z

Accenture provides global logistics and freight management solutions to address a changing market while mitigating financial and change management risks.

The Changing Role of the Finance Organization in a Multi-Polar World

2008-05-08T05:00:00Z

Accenture’s third High Performance Finance Study shows the challenges facing the finance function in today’s multi-polar world—and outlines the practices leading companies are adopting to create a finance function that truly enables high performance in this environment.

Navigating the Multi-Polar World

2008-03-05T06:00:00Z

How multinationals in China and Chinese companies expanding overseas pursue high-performance finance

CFO Insights Series

2007-07-13T05:00:00Z

The CFO Insights series of books provides a strategic guide to the fast-moving, ever-changing world for CFOs and senior management.

Meeting Investor Expectations: How Are Greater China's CFOs Doing?

2007-04-12T05:00:00Z

The finance function has an increasingly important role to play in meeting investor expectations—and therefore in driving the achievement of high performance. To fulfill this broader role, chief financial officers must move beyond traditional accounting to identify and measure new metrics that indicate future value.

Moving Up the Value Chain: High-Performance Finance in Southeast Asia and Australia -- Summary

2007-03-15T05:00:00Z

Accenture research shows that finance mastery is a characteristic of high performance.

Walking The Talk -- Summary

2007-01-25T06:00:00Z

Recent Accenture research pinpointed finance as one of the three most critical workforces for organizations intent on high performance.

A New Paradigm for Managing Shareholder Value -- Summary

2004-07-12T05:00:00Z

In this research report, we discuss the challenge of measuring enterprise value due to the treatment of intangible assets.

Arizona Department of Revenue: Public Service Value Model

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Arizona's Revenue Department worked with Accenture to link performance improvements from its Business Reengineering/Integrated Tax System and apply them to its strategic business planning goals.

Chinese Wireless Company: Business Transformation

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Helping a wireless company achieve high performance by executing a bold China business strategy

Finmeccanica: Enterprise Performance Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

With new enterprise performance management (EPM) processes, Finmeccanica quickly saw improved data integrity and consistency.

Accenture Communications Solutions: Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

To be competitive and to grow, service providers need deeper business intelligence capabilities.

Mercedes-Benz: Benchmarking and Corporate Strategy

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Mercedes-Benz turned to Accenture to help benchmark performance and create a corporate strategy for developing new capabilities.

North China Grid Company: Enterprise Performance Management Based on Oracle

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture delivers an end-to-end financial system to enable high performance.

Swedish Match: Enterprise Performance Management Framework

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Transformation was key to Swedish Match’s strategy for outperforming competitors and meeting investor expectations.

US Energy Utility: Operational Excellence and Sustainable Cost Savings

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture helped US gas and electricity utility save millions in costs & achieve operational excellence by automating, streamlining or eliminating processes.

Strategic Fiscal Management: Reducing Budget Deficits without Cutting Services

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

As the fiscal crisis that began in 2008 continues, most experts agree that this economic downturn is different than its predecessors: it's deeper and will take longer to resolve.

Enterprise Performance Management for Consumer Goods and Services Companies

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

A holistic enterprise performance management capability with integrated analytics that link strategy and execution magnifies the benefits delivered to a consumer goods and services business.

CFO Insights: Delivering High Performance

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Results from recent Accenture research reveal that high-performance businesses and governments embrace entirely new ways of thinking about finance and performance management.

Advanced Enterprise Solution for Metals

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read about Accenture Advanced Enterprise Solution for Metals which is a proven ERP solution that accelerates enterprise wide business value for high performance.

Consumer Goods: Planning Solution for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The Accenture Planning Solution for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management is a commercial and financial planning and analysis solution for consumer goods companies.

Enabling Technologies for Enterprise Performance Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture assists clients to leverage and optimize their investments in enterprise performance management solutions by using enabling technologies from leading vendors to help them achieve high performance.

Driving Broad Business Value Through Advanced Enterprise Performance Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Organizations that use SAP applications to run their operations have an immediate opportunity to develop more comprehensive, or advanced, enterprise performance management (EPM) capabilities that can help drive broad business value—financial and non-financial, tangible and intangible—for high performance.

Enterprise Performance Management: Services Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture's Enterprise Performance Management solutions can help organizations dramatically improve their ability to organize, integrate and analyze a wide range of financial, operational, competitor and marketplace information to deliver sustainable high performance.

Agribusiness: Performance Anatomy

To satisfy the constantly shifting and increasing requirements of end consumers, agribusinesses must reach for expansion both regionally and within their portfolios.

Conbipel: Enterprise Performance Management

Read how Accenture helped Conbipel move to Hyperion to improve its enterprise performance management and achieve financial and planning excellence.

Derivatives Reform Services

Derivatives Reform supports clients in navigating through the challenges of major regulations such as Dodd-Frank, MiFID II and Basel III.

Findus: Business Intelligence, Reporting and Data Project

Read how Accenture helped Findus to develop a business intelligence strategy that would allow it to leverage its data for more effective decision-making.

Global Energy Company: Planning Process Design and Road Map

Read how Accenture helped this energy company transform its planning design process.

Lantmännen Energi: Enterprise Performance Management

Read how Accenture helped Lantmännen Energi to implement an enterprise performance management strategy that helped align its strategic plan with daily operations.

Mediaset Group: Finance and Performance Management

Mediaset aimed to grow its business and transition to an integrated multimedia company by optimizing and changing to its traditional business model beginning with its administration, finance and control functions.

Pharmaceutical Retailer: Operational Transformation

Read how Accenture used analytics to help a pharmaceutical retailer achieve operational transformation and high performance.

Shekou Container Terminals: Cost and Performance Management

Accenture helps implement a cost management system for Shekou Container Terminals, one of China's leading ports operators.

US Health Plan: Forecasting and Analytics

Read how Accenture helped a large US health plan to develop powerful forecasting and analytics to improve decision-making.

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

Planning, budgeting and forecasting are vital processes for almost all organizations.

Trends in Shared Services: Unlocking the Full Potential

A presentation by Paul Boulanger, managing director, Finance & Performance Management, Accenture, to the Accenture Global Shared Services Conference, Miami, Florida.

Shareholder Value Analysis

Through shareholder value analysis techniques, our clients identify and understand shareholder value creation by using quantitative and qualitative proprietary methodologies.

Metrics, Reporting and Analysis

High-performance businesses and governments have a very strong value orientation. They ground their strategy in driving value and develop key measures of performance linked to total return to shareholders.

Finance and Performance Management: Service Overview

The Bottom Line is High Performance

What Global Brands Require from Global Business Services

A presentation by Gareth Morgan, vice president of Finance Shared Services at Bristol-Myers Squibb; Dan Stempkowski, vice president of Pepsi Business Services at PepsiCo; and Gary Duncan, global shared services lead, Accenture, to the Accenture Global Shared Services Conference, Miami, Florida.

Enterprise Performance Management Outsourcing

From production costs to pricing to new opportunities, information demands at businesses is ever increasing.