Finance and Enterprise Performance

Masters of Finance

2012-04-23T05:00:00Z

Most CFOs are trying to drive value in today’s turbulent markets, but only a few are succeeding. Here are five advanced capabilities that sustain their achievement.

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.

Deutsche Annington Immobilien Group: PTU Billing Process Optimization and ISO Certification for Quality Management System

2012-03-26T05:00:00Z

Accenture helps Deutsche Annington Immobilien Group revise their PTU billing process to achieve high performance.

2011 Accenture High Performance Finance Study: Focus on ASEAN Region

2012-03-26T05:00:00Z

Financial Reporting Challenges in Investment Banking

2012-03-26T05:00:00Z

Sourcing and managing data consistently and transparently can help investment banks improve data quality, address internal and external reporting challenges, and efficiently meet regulatory demands.

Accenture 2011 High Performance Finance Study: Podcast

2012-03-21T05:00:00Z

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.

Unlocking the Full Potential of Shared Services

2012-03-14T05:00:00Z

Read about the 2011 Accenture Global Shared Services Conference.

Becoming a Finance Master: Achieve Business Performance through Finance Excellence

2012-03-08T06:00:00Z

Trends in Finance: Opportunities for Improving the Finance Organization

2012-03-08T06:00:00Z

Banking Technology Vision: Technology Waves That Are Reshaping the Banking Landscape

2012-02-24T06:00:00Z

Accenture has studied how technology and business trends are converging—and what that means for banks. Read this report to learn about the technology waves that are shaping the banking landscape.

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.

Mobile Work: Have You Adapted your Real Estate Strategy?

2012-01-26T06:00:00Z

Read how companies must alter real estate strategies in line with the realities of mobile work to gain business advantage

Next-Generation Finance BPO: Getting Ahead of the Numbers

2012-01-18T06:00:00Z

Read how next-generation finance business process outsourcing (BPO) can help companies deliver value by being tailored to the specific needs of the company.

The Benefits of Benchmarking in Shared Services Programs

2011-12-20T06:00:00Z

Read why benchmarking can help companies improve the performance of their shared services operations

Accenture 2011 High Performance Finance Study: Delivering Value in a Complex World

2011-11-15T06:00:00Z

Read the 2011 Accenture High Performance Finance Study to understand why finance matters to enterprise growth.

Trends in Shared Services: Unlocking the Full Potential

2011-09-26T05:00:00Z

Read Accenture’s research on the latest trends in Shared Services and identifies five topics for continued success and sustainability.

Integrated Business Services: Taking Shared Services to New Heights of High Performance

2011-09-26T05:00:00Z

Read how the evolution and development of shared services is creating more sophisticated integrated business services organizations.

Managing Working Capital for Sustained High Performance

2011-09-21T05:00:00Z

Read Accenture’s research on how better working capital management can not only improve liquidity but provide the necessary funding for growth.

High Performance through Cost Accounting: Confronting a New World of Higher Production Costs and Greater Volatility

2011-09-13T05:00:00Z

Read Accenture’s research on how to improve cost accounting and inventory valuation function that will help companies enhance predictability and control over profitable growth.

Maximizing the Real Estate Portfolio: A Balanced Approach to Strategy and Implementation

2011-08-25T05:00:00Z

Read Accenture's report on how organizations can maximize the value from their real estate portfolios.

Audit Readiness through Financial Modernization

2011-06-01T05:00:00Z

Read Accenture research on audit readiness through financial modernization and learn how to improve financial management for increased accountability and transparency.

Achieving High Performance: The Value of Benchmarking

2011-05-18T05:00:00Z

Read about Accenture’s point of view on the benchmarking process and learn about the key success factors in creating a benchmarking program that drives high performance.

State of Shared Services: Sustained Competitive Advantage

2011-05-03T05:00:00Z

Accenture’s Paul Boulanger talks about what characteristics underlie shared services mastery.

Finance and Performance Management Survey - When the Going Gets Tough, Call the CFO

2011-04-18T05:00:00Z

Jumping the S-Curve: Insights for Profit & Cash Optimization

2011-04-06T05:00:00Z

The S-Curve describes the typical growth curve of a company from small start-up to industry heavyweight, and then gradual decline. High-performance businesses, by contrast, are able to jump from the crest of one S-curve to the next, avoiding the troughs in between.

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.

High Performance through Revenue Assurance for the Communications Industry

2011-04-01T05:00:00Z

An end-to-end approach for telecommunications companies

Revenue Assurance: Whose Responsibility Is It?

2011-03-29T05:00:00Z

Revenue leakage can be found anywhere along your revenue generation value chain.

Stress Testing in the Banking Industry: How to Get it Right

2011-03-22T05:00:00Z

Accenture proposes a comprehensive approach to help banks improve their stress testing capabilities.

A Recommended Approach for Optimizing Your ERP for Tax

2011-03-15T05:00:00Z

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems should be used in conjunction with tax-specific software to optimize the tax function and help enable high performance.

The SWIFT Connection: When Does it Make Sense for Corporate Treasurers?

2011-03-10T06:00:00Z

In this article, Accenture explores ways in which SWIFT could help corporate treasurers overcome some of the challenges they face.

Enterprise Performance Management Holds the Key to High Performance

2011-03-07T06:00:00Z

Creating the Optimal Revenue Assurance Program

2011-03-01T06:00:00Z

Many telecommunications companies try to address their revenue leakage problems by installing technology solutions.

Cost Management: An Aspect of Profit & Cash Optimization

2011-01-24T06:00:00Z

Learn about Accenture research that shows how companies are approaching cost management and how these changes will affect the way business is done.

Lessons Learned from Accenture's 2010 Global Shared Services Conference

2010-11-29T06:00:00Z

On June 28-30, 2010, Accenture hosted the Tenth Annual Global Shared Services Conference.

High Performance through Shared Services Video: The Asia Pacific Perspective

2010-11-02T05:00:00Z

In this video, Cara Morton, managing director-Finance & Performance Management, Asia Pacific for Accenture, explores some of the issues and trends facing shared services in Asia Pacific.

The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) – Solving the Transactions Conundrum

2010-10-19T05:00:00Z

The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) initiative has been a fact of life for banks in Europe since early 2008.

An Overview of Accenture Benchmarking Solutions

2010-10-14T05:00:00Z

In this video, Chuck Wise, lead-Accenture Benchmarking Solutions, defines benchmarking and discusses its importance.

US Financial Regulatory Reform: Cost or Opportunity?

2010-10-01T05:00:00Z

The impact of the new Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on US financial services firms will be dramatic.

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.

Shared Services Talent Management: Lessons from the Masters

2010-06-17T05:00:00Z

Talent management is one of the key enablers of high performance in shared services.

Benchmarking Can Help Point the Way to High Performance

2010-05-06T05:00:00Z

The finance function has a key role to play in helping a company become a high-performance business.

High Performance through Shared Services: The Asia Pacific Perspective

2010-04-27T05:00:00Z

Shared services are playing an important role in enabling high performance around the world, but particularly in the Asia Pacific region.

Four Imperatives To Help Wealth Management Firms Excel

2010-03-03T06:00:00Z

Capital Markets Podcast

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.

Financial Times: Beware of Cutting Off the Branch on Which You Sit

2009-10-02T05:00:00Z

During times of economic woe, companies tend to react predictably to protect their all-important cash flows: they stop hiring, travel budgets are slashed, costs are cut and layoffs often follow.

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.

A World of Opportunity: Driving High Performance through Finance Workforce Mastery

2009-07-21T05:00:00Z

The finance workforce plays a key role in enabling high performance—especially during troubled times.

Strategies for Managing Front Office Costs

2009-06-09T05:00:00Z

Achieving High Performance through Shared Services: Lessons from the Masters

2009-06-08T05:00:00Z

Shared services masters run their shared services organizations as high-performance businesses.

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.

The Winning Edge in Uncertain Times

2009-01-15T06:00:00Z

Rapid and Sustained Cost Management

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

Comcast: Finance Transformation

2009-01-01T06:00:00Z

Listen to Todd Irwin, executive director of Financial Systems, Comcast, explain how Accenture has helped Comcast centralize its accounts payable function—reducing operational costs while increasing quality.

Managing in Extraordinary Times: New Choices for New Challenges Podcast

2009-01-01T06:00:00Z

Cloudy skies can conceal rays of opportunity.

Strategic Approach to Cost Reduction in Insurance

2008-12-17T06:00:00Z

Lower cost in a strategic, value-driven way

Rapid and Sustained Cost Management: The Winning Edge in Uncertain Times Podcast

2008-12-01T06:00:00Z

As businesses deal with a world of growing turmoil, Accenture examines the opportunities lurking behind the darkest clouds.

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.

Shared Services and the Link to High Performance

2008-11-19T06:00:00Z

Shared services—the standardization and consolidation of administrative or support functions into a single entity that provides common services—has become a powerful value creator for private- and public-sector organizations.

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.

Moving the Finance Team to the Future

2008-09-29T05:00:00Z

Financial Executive
This article by Steve Culp, Accenture’s managing director of Finance and Performance Management, EALA, examines the key talent issues confronting finance professionals in today’s global environment.

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.

A Formal Finance Strategy is Critical to High Performance in Both Finance and the Enterprise

2008-06-18T05:00:00Z

Recent research by Accenture indicates that only a minority of companies have finance functions that are aligned with their overall business goals.

Today’s Finance Workforce - No Longer Just the Numbers Guys

2008-06-01T05:00:00Z

Any CFO will acknowledge that the days when the corporate finance organization was home to the “numbers guys” are long past.

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.

Core Trading: The Role of Implicit Cost Attribution in the Investment Process

2008-05-21T05:00:00Z

To satisfy plan sponsors and meet regulatory requirements, investment managers use various techniques to measure execution quality and show that cost containment is addressed with mathematical rigor.

Multi-function Shared Services: Insights from an Accenture Research Study

2008-05-16T05:00:00Z

Businesses and governments are increasingly considering multi-function shared services models to obtain sustainable advantage on the path to high performance.

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.

Asia-Pacific Embraces Finance and Accounting BPO

2008-04-21T05:00:00Z

Once a laggard in the adoption of Finance & Accounting outsourcing (FAO), the Asia Pacific region is now showing the fastest growth rate in the world, with many companies poised to leapfrog their European and US rivals in the adoption of higher-value outsourced services.

Navigating the Multi-Polar World

2008-03-05T06:00:00Z

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

The Point: Prime Opportunities in the Credit Crunch

2008-03-04T06:00:00Z

Finding high performance and cost savings in the credit crunch

Shared Services and High Performance in a Multi-Polar World

2007-10-15T05:00:00Z

Quite often, the business case for implementing shared services focuses on cost savings and cost avoidance, with a heavy emphasis on increased customer satisfaction.

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.

Establishing Trust through a Well-Defined Shared Services Governance Framework -- Summary

2007-05-23T05:00:00Z

Shared services operations often fail because they are insufficiently trusted by their customers within the business.

Driving High Performance Through Fully Realized Shared Services -- Summary

2007-05-23T05:00:00Z

While centralization of functions is the foundation for shared services, Accenture research shows that to deliver high performance, a shared services model needs to go much further.

Shared Services Start-Up: From Launch to Stabilization

2007-05-23T05:00:00Z

The implementation of a shared services operating model is challenging.

Managing Shared Services Change: Beyond Communications and Training

2007-05-23T05:00:00Z

Accenture believes that shared services will play an increasingly critical role in helping businesses and governments reach for high performance.

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.

Accounts Payable Transformation: Lessons in High Performance from the Private Sector

2006-05-01T05:00:00Z

For many public sector organizations, the ability to pay suppliers within terms can be a challenge.

CFO Insights: Enabling High Performance through Leading Practices for Finance ERP – Chapters 1-4

2006-04-13T05:00:00Z

In today’s high-performance businesses and governments, the CFO has responsibility to implement and manage ERP solutions successfully.

Delta Air Lines: High Performance Through Financial Outsourcing

2006-01-01T06:00:00Z

Delta Air Lines partnered with Accenture in a financial outsourcing agreement, transitioning its European finance and accounting functions to Accenture to improve visibility, service levels and cost-saving solutions.

Accenture: Maximizing Financial Performance

2005-07-19T05:00:00Z

Accenture is a global consulting, technology services and outsourcing company that has been experiencing rapid growth while it has been changing its business model to meet the myriad needs of its stakeholders.

Shared Services: Government Shared Services Model for High Performance from Accenture

2005-01-17T06:00:00Z

Shared services models for administrative functions are already gaining acceptance and helping to create high-performance public service organizations.

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.

Holy Spirit Health System: Financial and Operational Improvements

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helps Holy Spirit Health System forge a path to high performance through financial and operational improvements

Finance and Enterprise Performance: Services Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture works with clients to develop and deliver innovative solutions that can successfully transform an organization's finance management capabilities to achieve enduring value.

South African Post Office: Transforming Financial Systems

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

For public company South African Post Office Group, achieving financial success while serving dual masters requires excellence in both data management and communications.

Transforming the Finance Organization with SAP

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

When it comes to the finance function, organizations are facing increased pressure to generate value from more integrated processes and data as well as to comply with regulation.

Accenture Shared Services

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

More than 75 percent of the Fortune 500 is using some form of shared services to support the drive to achieve 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 Navy-Commander, Naval Installations Command: Financial Management Shared Services

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helped the Commander of Naval Installations Command (CNIC) build a business case to support centralized shared services for financial management as well as standardized operations for its 16 regions.

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.

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.

Arrow Electronics: Integrated Financial System

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read this Oracle case study about how Accenture helped implement a sophisticated Oracle financial platform for Arrow Electronics.

Alcan Engineered Products: Infrastructure Separation

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture helped Alcan Engineered Products to divest from its parent company while making gains in IT governance.

Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT): Financial Management System

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The Virginia Department of Transportation recognized it needed to overhaul its financial information management system.

Finance and Accounting Outsourcing

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Outsourcing provides additional means for a finance organization to improve efficiency and value delivered.

Chinese Wireless Company: Business Transformation

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

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

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.

Revenue Assurance for Telecommunications Companies: Minimize Revenue Leakage

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

How Accenture helps telcos achieve high performance by minimizing revenue leakage

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.

Finance Management Services for the Life Sciences Industry

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

By partnering with our client chief financial officers and finance executives, we create value and deliver world-class finance capabilities. Visit our Finance & Performance Management pages to learn more.

Pricing and Profit Optimization for Consumer Packaged Goods

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Consumer packaged goods companies are facing a number of external pressures driving the need for more statistical and fact-based price and profit optimization.

Finance Operations: Services Overview

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Finance Operations create the foundation for high-performance finance.

Leading Electrical Utility Company: Transformation and Outsourcing of Finance Function

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helped this electrical utility company simplify and standardize its financial processes and information management architecture model to provide a scalable platform for future growth.

Leading European Bank: Trading and Risk Services

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The client is a leading European bank with more than 3,000 employees and assets of nearly $167 billion (€140 billion).

Accenture Finance Academy

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Finmeccanica: Enterprise Performance Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

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

Organization Analysis and Design

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Advanced capabilities are difficult to achieve without effective finance operations.

GlaxoSmithKline: Working Capital Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

With Accenture’s help, GlaxoSmithKline realized roughly £1.5 billion ($2.28 billion) in working capital benefits within 18 months.

Accenture Federal Financial Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture has integrated financial management offerings to help federal financial leaders.

Rapid and Sustained Cost Management for Consumer Goods and Services Companies

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helps clients develop comprehensive, process-driven strategies for rapid and sustained cost management that leverage deep insights and analytics.

Process Improvement

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Buyers and suppliers can realize considerable value through transformation of their core business processes such as invoice processing and vendor payment, customer invoicing and collections.

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.

Treasury Operational Excellence

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

The agenda for today's finance and treasury groups is in a state of rapid transformation.

Unity Health System: Finance and Performance Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

With the merger of Rochester, New York's Park Ridge Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital came a consolidation of a number of clinical activities.

Phoenix Children's Hospital: Improved Financial Performance

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

With Accenture's help, Phoenix Children's Hospital was able to improve its financial performance without compromising its mission—so progressing on the road toward high performance.

Global Imaging and Information Company: Multi-functional Shared Services for North America

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how Accenture helped this global imaging and information company create a North American shared services center.

Financial Excellence for the Electronics and High Tech Industry

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

High-performance businesses achieve excellence in finance operations. Mastery in finance not only controls costs and delivers new efficiencies, but also helps establish finance as a true service organization.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Value of Accenture Benchmarking Solutions in Shared Services Implementations

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

In this video, Chuck Wise, lead, Accenture Benchmarking Solutions, explains that benchmarking plays a dual role in creating an effective shared services center.

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.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): High-Performing Enterprise Solutions—Finance and Performance Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Read how NASA integrated its procurement and financial systems and processes by leveraging Accenture's SAP experience.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): SAP Solutions for Financial Management

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

As the primary implementation contractor for NASA’s Core Financial Project, Accenture implemented a state-of-the-art SAP system that allows an agency-wide view of NASA’s financial operations.

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.

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.

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.

Accenture and Pfizer: Teaming for Tax Transformation -- Summary

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

With rapid growth having created challenges for its tax division, Pfizer teamed with Accenture to transform the way this division operated.

Accenture Benchmarking Solutions for Finance

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture High Performance Business research shows that high performers exceed their peers in the ability to develop distinctive capabilities within their finance function to create a competitive advantage.

Enabling Technologies for Finance

1900-01-01T06:00:00Z

Accenture helps clients leverage and optimize their investments in enterprise-wide systems by using enabling technologies including Oracle and SAP to help them achieve high performance.

Revenue Assurance for the Communications Industry

Consulting, technology and managed services capabilities to help providers with revenue assurance through the order-to-cash process and improve customer satisfaction.

Global Retailer: Customer/Employee Experience and Store Operating Model Transformation -- Project Snapshot

Accenture is working with a leading global retailer develop a holistic employee and customer experience and redesign its store operating model.

Achieving Sustainable Growth with Strategic Cost Management Podcast

Eleventh Annual Accenture Global Shared Services Conference: New Horizons: Achieving High Performance through Next Generation Shared Services and BPO

Read about eleventh annual Accenture Global Shared Services Conference (GSSC) which focuses on achieving high performance through next generation shared services.

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.

Targeting the Right Functions and Services (video)

Accenture Technology Services for Finance and Performance Management

We help finance executives create capabilities that drive increased economic value—and high performance—across the enterprise.

Towers Watson: Day One Finance and HR Merger Integration

Read how Accenture helped Towers Watson complete the complex post-merger integration of finance and HR processes.

Accenture: Integrated Financial Forecasting Solution

The Accenture CIO Organization teamed with the Accenture Finance and Human Resources organizations to create an Integrated Forecasting Solution that links revenue and contract cost information to supply and demand data to deliver high performance.

US Electric and Gas Utility: Treasury Transformation

Read how Accenture helped this large US electric and gas utility to transform its treasury functions and implement a modern, automated software solution.

BNP Paribas: Improving the Global Client Onboarding Process

Accenture helped BNP Paribas improve its global client onboarding process, which allowed the bank to bring in new clients and move closer to achieving its growth objectives.

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.

VimpelCom Revenue Assurance

Accenture Helps VimpelCom: Take Strides Toward High Performance Through a New Revenue Assurance Program

Carrefour: Finance and Accounting Shared Services

When Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer, adopted a new global vision the company needed consistent systems across the organization.

Finance and Accounting for the Communications Industry

In a drive to achieve high performance, communications companies need to ramp up their finance and accounting function.

Conbipel: Enterprise Performance Management

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

Helping Communications Industry Operators Develop Superior Billing Capabilities

How Accenture helps operators develop superior billing capabilities

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.

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.

Project Snapshot: Ocean Freight Company: Freight Revenue Management

Accenture is helping one of the world’s largest ocean freight companies with revenue management to improve performance.

Finance and Performance Management: Service Overview

The Bottom Line is High Performance

Global Energy Company: Planning Process Design and Road Map

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

Revitalizing Core Banking Systems for Competitive Advantage in the New Landscape Podcast

In this podcast, Fiaz Sindhu, core banking services lead for North America, discusses how revitalizing core banking services can help banks deliver new business capabilities.

Banking Finance Transformation Podcast

This Steve Culp podcast discusses banking finance transformation to better control costs and manage risk within banks.

Global Airline: Revenue Management System

Accenture helps major airline company located in Asia achieve high performance with new revenue management capabilities for its growing cargo business.

Global Apparel Retailer: Workforce Performance System

Accenture worked with this global retailer to implement a workforce performance system to automate time-consuming tasks—leading to greater payroll accuracy and reduced administrative and labor costs.

Corporate Finance: Services Overview

Our Corporate Finance solutions cover the full breadth of needs for the finance executive operating in today's increasingly complex and integrated environment.

Global Bank: Post-Merger Integration (Business Procedure Documentation)

Read how Accenture helped a global bank document front-office exceptions-documentation that will aid post-merger integration.

Finance Strategy

Today's CFO faces a dynamic and challenging environment.

U.S. Navy: Financial Operations Improvement

Accenture helps the U.S. Navy build a world-class financial operation, equipped to support the growing needs of a 21st century defense organization.

Finance and Accounting for Finance Excellence in the Electronics and High Tech Industries

To drive finance excellence and high performance, electronics and high-tech companies can improve their finance and accounting function through service innovation.

Komatsu: Shared Services

Accenture helped Komatsu design and implement a shared services center, lowering financial operating costs and improving access to strategic information.

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.

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.

Large APAC Bank: Finance and Procurement BPO

Read Accenture’s report on how through outsourcing its finance and procurement BPO functions, this large APAC bank was able to achieve high performance.

Tax Excellence

Accenture has developed an array of tax transformation solutions and services that may be delivered either individually or concurrently.

Accenture Payment Services: Transaction Banking

As banks renew focus on global growth, the spotlight is on transaction banking. Operational efficiency and new revenue generation are key considerations for an effective transaction banking strategy.

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.

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.

Rapid and Sustained Cost Management for Industrial Manufacturing

For industrial manufacturers, the impact of the weak economy and frozen credit markets has dramatically exacerbated the importance of focusing on rapid cost takeout in the immediate term.

Enterprise Performance Management Outsourcing

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

Leading Nordic Retailer: Oracle ERP and Finance Implementation--Project Snapshot

Accenture is working with a leading Nordic retailer to implement an Oracle ERP and finance program that will lead to high performance.

Pfizer: A tax strategy for high performance

Accenture helped Pfizer create a strategy to improve performance of its tax division and enable high performance.

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

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

Finance and Administration Services for the Insurance Industry

Accenture research has shown there is a 74 percent correlation between a high-performance finance organization and a high-performance business.

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.

Derivatives Reform Services

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

Reducing Improper Payments

Achieve high performance through innovative prevention, detection and recovery services

Winning in the New Banking Era: Next-Generation Core Banking, a Catalyst for Success

Why do BBVA, Royal Bank of Canada and Wells Fargo enjoy higher cross-selling ratios and lower rates of customer attrition than their competitors? Accenture examines the DNA of high-performing banks.

Pharmaceutical Retailer: Operational Transformation

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

Shareholder Value Analysis

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

Portugal Tax Department: Revenue Systems

Accenture helps the Portuguese Tax Department of the Ministry of Finance to move its revenue systems to an "integrated tax" approach.

Prison Services: Corporate Support Transformation and Shared Services

Read how Accenture helped the national prison service transform the way it delivers corporate services by creating a shared services center.