Finance and treasury

3 ways to keep your finance team engaged

Craig Harnett, CPA, CGMA, the CFO of the National Hockey League, shares strategies he uses to engage his finance team of 44 employees in New York City and Montreal.

FP&A can help guide the journey

James Miln, ACMA, CGMA, the senior director of investor relations at Yahoo, shares how companies can improve the effectiveness of their financial planning and analysis teams.

4 keys to joint venture success

A joint venture can provide an efficient way to tap into a new market, enabling businesses to overcome cultural, linguistic and political boundaries quickly and smoothly. Grant Thornton advisers look at the benefits of such a partnership and outline the keys to making it work.

Getting finance into the cloud

Finance has been slower to embrace the cloud than other business functions, particularly sales and operations. Here are five steps finance professionals can take to begin implementing the cloud.

The 2014 CGMA Magazine quiz

Test your knowledge on the news and ideas that shaped management accounting in 2014 by taking the CGMA Magazine quiz. Cyber-security, talent retention, globalisation, innovation – it’s all here.

Cash management shift boosts M&A

Businesses worldwide are accumulating and spending more cash, mostly on mergers and acquisitions, according to four years of research by SunGard. The shift in corporate cash management is also raising new challenges, most of them strategic.

The value of emotions

We think we can rationally assess the true value of something, but we are strongly influenced by our emotions and the comparative price of other goods and services. By understanding such behavioural science, businesses can maximise profits.

Getting back up to speed

Years of declining revenue created a challenge for International Speedway Corp.: how to manoeuvre out of the pits and back into the lead. At the centre of the strategy is Dan Houser, CPA, CGMA, who is guiding the company back to growth.

High-voltage strategies

Surveys by the American Institute of CPAs and Accenture show that complexity is a growing issue for the modern CFO in maximising business performance and efficiencies.

Developing a plan for better planning

There is no one-size-fits-all planning module. Different organisations, at different stages of their business life and with distinct goals, require different levels of planning. Gary Cokins and Michael Coveney offer tips for taking planning to the next level.
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